Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty

Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty
Studio album by Felt
Released 1981
Recorded Woodbine St. Studios, Royal Leamington Spa
Genre Post-punk, indie pop
Length 30:43
Label Cherry Red
Producer John A Rivers
Felt chronology
Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty
(1981)
The Splendour of Fear
(1984)
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Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty is the first album by British post-punk band Felt, released in 1981.

Track 1 is instrumental. "Fortune" was later re-recorded and released on the band's 1984 single Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow. Similarly, a re-recording of "Cathedral" appears on the Primitive Painters single.

The single version of "Fortune" (length 3:31) was later included in the band's 1992 best-of compilation Absolute Classic Masterpieces, and on their 2003 compilation Stains On A Decade.

Track listing

All words by Lawrence. All music by Lawrence and Maurice Deebank, except where noted.

  1. "Evergreen Dazed" - 5:07
  2. "Fortune" - 3:36
  3. "Birdmen" - 6:32
  4. "Cathedral" - 5:20
  5. "I Worship the Sun" - 4:16 (Deebank)
  6. "Templeroy" - 5:35 (Deebank)

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