Calenture

by The Triffids

Calenture cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1987
  • Label: Island
  • Country: Australia
  • Length: 1:48:07
  • Community rating: 3.78/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Relocating from Australia to London, The Triffids expanded their sprawling, cinematic sound with grander orchestral arrangements and highly polished production. David McComb's evocative, deeply romantic lyricism explores themes of madness, isolation, and longing over a sweeping backdrop of jangle pop and soaring folk-rock. 'Calenture' captures the band at their most ambitious, delivering a lush, melancholic masterpiece of Australian indie music.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, storytelling, orchestral, atmospheric, strings

Tracklist

  1. Bury Me Deep In Love (4:04)
  2. Kelly's Blues (4:34)
  3. A Trick Of The Light (3:51)
  4. Hometown Farewell Kiss (4:31)
  5. Unmade Love (4:02)
  6. Open For You (3:08)
  7. Holy Water (3:17)
  8. Blinder By The Hour (4:25)
  9. Vagabond Holes (3:57)
  10. Jerdacuttup Man (4:44)
  11. Calenture (1:11)
  12. Save What You Can (4:42)
  13. Baby I Can Walk You Home (2:38)
  14. Region Unknown (4:11)
  15. Love The Fever (4:43)
  16. Bad News Always Reminds Me OfYou (3:15)
  17. Everything You Touch Turns To Time (3:27)
  18. Bury Me Deep In Love - Demo (4:16)
  19. Kelly's Blues - Demo (4:10)
  20. A Trick Of The Light - Demo (3:05)
  21. Hometown Farewell Kiss - Demo (4:25)
  22. There Must Be A Curse On Me - Demo (3:48)
  23. Open For You - Demo (2:22)
  24. Burned - Demo (4:16)
  25. Blinder By The Hour - Demo (2:58)
  26. Vagabond Holes - Demo (4:08)
  27. Jerdacuttup Man - Demo (3:57)
  28. Save What You Can - Demo (4:08)
  29. Calentura (1:40)

Credits

  • The Triffids - primary artist
  • Adam Peters - arranged by [strings], performer [musician], producer [second lieutenants], programmed by [programming]
  • Robert McComb - arranged by [strings], performer [musician]
  • Andy Mason - engineer [recording engineers]
  • Ben Kape - engineer [recording engineers], mixed by [mixing engineers]
  • George Shilling - engineer [recording engineers]
  • Gil Norton - engineer [recording engineers], mixed by [mixing engineers], producer
  • Keith Andrews - engineer [recording engineers]
  • Marc Crellin - engineer [recording engineers]
  • Mark Angelo Lusardi - engineer [recording engineers]
  • Tony Harris - engineer [recording engineers]
  • Warren Barnett - lacquer cut by
  • Tim Young - mastered by
  • David Bascombe - mixed by [mixing engineers]
  • Mark Wallis - mixed by [mixing engineers]
  • Alsy MacDonald - performer [musician]
  • Benedict Hoffnung - performer [musician]
  • Billy Kinsely - performer [musician]
  • David McComb - performer [musician], producer [second lieutenants]
  • Evil Graham Lee - performer [musician]
  • Jane Norton - performer [musician]
  • Jill Birt - performer [musician]
  • Keith Hancock - performer [musician]
  • Martyn P. Casey - performer [musician]
  • Mick Doonan - performer [musician]
  • Nick Allum - performer [musician]
  • Sean Pugh - performer [musician]
  • Craig Leon - arranged by [backing vocals]

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