Privilege

by Television Personalities

Privilege cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Fire
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 3.65/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Phil Vinall

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Arriving after a significant multi-year hiatus, Dan Treacy's highly influential cult band returned with a noticeably darker and more fractured aesthetic on their fourth album. 'Privilege' surrounds Treacy's brutally honest, heavily introspective songwriting regarding mental health and addiction with swirling, druggy psychedelia and shambolic indie pop. It is a hauntingly vulnerable masterpiece that heavily prefigured the 1990s lo-fi indie boom.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, atmospheric, lo-fi, fuzz, twee, jangly, witty, confessional

Tracklist

  1. Paradise Is For The Blessed
  2. A Good And Faithful Servant
  3. Conscience Tells Me No
  4. My Hedonistic Tendencies
  5. All My Dreams Are Dead
  6. Salvador Dali's Garden Party
  7. The Man Who Paints The Rainbows
  8. What If It's Raining?
  9. Sad Mona Lisa
  10. The Engine Driver Song
  11. Sometimes I Think You Know Me Better Than I Know Myself
  12. Privilege

Credits

  • Daniel Treacy - written-by

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