Delicate Tension

by R. Stevie Moore

Delicate Tension cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1978
  • Label: H.P. Music
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:17:56
  • Community rating: 3.53/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Continuing his prolific, idiosyncratic home-recording process, 'Delicate Tension' assembles an incredibly diverse array of lo-fi pop experiments. Moore's masterful, DIY power-pop sensibilities and quirky humor deeply influenced the subsequent generation of indie and bedroom pop artists.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, melodic, DIY, eccentric

Tracklist

  1. Cool Daddio (2:40)
  2. Delicate Tension (3:54)
  3. Schoolgirl (2:00)
  4. Don't Blame The N****rs (3:29)
  5. Zebra Standards (4:30)
  6. You Are Too Far From Me (5:14)
  7. Oh Pat (1:18)
  8. Apropos Joe (3:10)
  9. Funny Child (2:02)
  10. Norway (2:40)
  11. This Wednesday (1:32)
  12. Some Voices (0:25)
  13. I Go Into Your Mind (2:09)
  14. Horizontal Hideaway (1:04)
  15. Don't Let Me Go To The Dogs (4:22)
  16. Ist Or Mas (8:09)
  17. Dance Man (3:11)
  18. Manufacturers (4:43)
  19. My Little Automobile Is Sad (2:44)
  20. Caffeine Boy (2:39)
  21. Let's (2:12)
  22. Thinking (5:44)
  23. New Strings (2:43)
  24. Bulk Of Knowledge (1:59)
  25. Adjacent Species Like You (3:11)

Credits

  • Mark Cudnik - drums
  • Mike Hopper - flute

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