Desperate Straights

by Slapp Happy & Henry Cow

Desperate Straights cover art

Joining forces for a collaborative marvel, the accessible eccentricity of Slapp Happy perfectly collided with the intense avant-garde rigidity of Henry Cow. 'Desperate Straights' is a wonderfully quirky, remarkably playful progressive pop album, anchoring deeply surreal, highly poetic cabaret storytelling within fiercely complex, shifting avant-prog structures.

Genres

  • Avant-Prog
  • Progressive Pop
  • Art Pop

Tracklist

  1. Casablanca Moon
  2. Me And Parvati
  3. Half Way There
  4. Michaelangelo
  5. Dawn
  6. Mr. Rainbow
  7. The Secret
  8. A Little Something
  9. The Drum
  10. Haiku
  11. Slow Moon's Rose
  12. Some Questions About Hats
  13. The Owl
  14. A Worm Is At Work
  15. Bad Alchemy
  16. Europa
  17. Desperate Straights
  18. Riding Tigers
  19. Apes In Capes
  20. Strayed
  21. Giants
  22. Extract From The Messiah
  23. In The Sickbay
  24. Caucasian Lullaby