Scum
by Bark Psychosis
- Type: Single
- Released: September 1992
- Label: 3rd Stone
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 21:23
- Community rating: 4.21/5 from 5 ratings
Artists on this release: Neil Aldridge
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Recorded live in a single take inside the resonant acoustics of St John's Church in Stratford, London, 'Scum' is a sprawling 21-minute improvised ambient piece. Its spacious, dynamic manipulation of traditional rock instrumentation was explicitly cited by critic Simon Reynolds when he famously coined the term 'post-rock' in a 1994 review. The track moves glacially through phases of jazzy silence, field recordings, and sudden, abrasive guitar noise.
Genres
Descriptors: atmospheric, improvisation, progressive, experimental, expansive
Tracklist
- Scum (21:15)
Credits
- Bark Psychosis - primary artist, mixed by, written-by, producer
- Gerald Palmer - management
- Phill Brown - mixed by
- Toby McFarlan Pond - photography by [cover]
- Neil Aldridge - programmed by, engineer