Intermission

by The Residents

Intermission cover art
  • Type: EP
  • Released: October 1982
  • Label: Ralph
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 25:18
  • Community rating: 3.82/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Richard Formby

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Originally conceived as introductory mood music to set the tone for their legendary conceptual stage tours, this collection of unsettling soundscapes stands firmly on its own. Its heavily synthetic, deeply surreal atmospheres perfectly encapsulate the anonymous collective's commitment to subverting musical conventions.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Lights Out (Prelude) (5:57)
  2. Shorty's Lament (Intermission) (6:48)
  3. The Moles Are Coming (Intermission) (2:57)
  4. Would We Be Alive (Intermission) (5:13)
  5. The New Hymn (Recessional) (4:21)

Credits

  • Designland - sleeve
  • Stephen Lawrie - songwriter

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