Cacophony

by Rudimentary Peni

Cacophony cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 21 November 1988
  • Label: Outer Himalayan
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 42:43
  • Community rating: 4.15/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Grant Brand, Jon Greville

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Composed of 30 erratic, hyper-condensed tracks, 'Cacophony' is an obsessive, manic concept album entirely dedicated to the life and works of H.P. Lovecraft. Nick Blinko's unhinged vocal delivery and the band's jagged, unpredictable time signatures create an atmosphere of pure, suffocating anxiety and macabre art punk.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, occult, lo-fi, horror, literary, DIY, fast, noisy, dissonant

Tracklist

  1. Nightgaunts (1:00)
  2. The Horrors in the Museum (3:03)
  3. The Only Child (1:55)
  4. Architectonic and Dominant (1:00)
  5. The Evil Clergyman (1:52)
  6. Brown Jenkin (1:46)
  7. Crazed Couplet (1:22)
  8. Sarcophagus (1:02)
  9. Lovecraft Baby (1:43)
  10. Dream City (1:43)
  11. C12 H22 011 (0:51)
  12. Zenophobia (1:51)
  13. Sunset for the Lords of Venus (0:40)
  14. Beyond the Tanarian Hills (1:05)
  15. Imps of the Perverse (1:48)
  16. The Dead Loved (1:09)
  17. Periwig Power (1:12)
  18. Kappa Alpha Tau (0:47)
  19. American Anglophile in the World Turned Upside-Down (1:34)
  20. Memento. Mori (0:34)
  21. Better Not Born (1:45)
  22. Arkham Hearse (1:15)
  23. The Old Man Is Not So Terribly Misanthropic (1:00)
  24. Gentlemen Prefer Blood (2:23)
  25. Sonia (1:14)
  26. The Day the Universe Ceased (March 15th 1937) (0:55)
  27. The Crime of the Century (1:12)
  28. Musick in Diabola (2:05)
  29. Shard (1:56)
  30. Black on Gold (0:46)

Credits

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