Lifeforms

Lifeforms is a 1994 double album by experimental electronica group The Future Sound of London. With time, it has become their best-known album and is considered to be an important and influential classic of avante garde electronic music.^[4]

The album

It achieved commercial success and produced hit singles such as "Cascade" and "Lifeforms".

FSOL created this around the same time as they were finishing Tales of Ephidrina, and the more complex, ambient direction they were taking resulted in Lifeforms.^[5] The artwork also progressed from previous works, with soon to be familiar images of the "Witch Girl" Sheuneen Ta,^[6][7] and the "Spike" computer model – sometimes referred to as the Electronic Brain – appearing on the sleeve for the first time.

The album was certified Silver (over 60,000 units sold) by British Phonographic Industry (BPI).

Track listing

Disc One

1. "Cascade" – 5:59
2. "Ill Flower" – 3:24
3. "Flak" – 4:53
4. "Bird Wings" – 1:30
5. "Dead Skin Cells" – 6:50
6. "Lifeforms" – 5:18 (Feat. Elizabeth Frazer)
7. "Eggshell" – 6:45
8. "Among Myselves" – 5:52

Disc Two

1. "Domain" – 2:48
2. "Spineless Jelly" – 4:41
3. "Interstat" – 0:55
4. "Vertical Pig" – 6:44
5. "Cerebral" – 3:30
6. "Life Form Ends" – 5:03
7. "Vit" – 6:48
8. "Omnipresence" – 6:39
9. "Room 208" – 6:12
10. "Elaborate Burn" – 3:15
11. "Little Brother" – 5:13

Media

For samples of the title track see Lifeforms (song).

Chart Position

Crew

• Written and produced by The Future Sound of London
• Engineered by Yage
• Flak written by Dougans/Cobain/Fripp/Williams/Grossart/Thompson/Nightingale
• Omnipresence written by Dougans/Cobain/Schulze
• Soundbytes on Flak (and Cascade, uncredited) by Ozric Tentacles
• Guitar textures and bytes on Flak by Robert Fripp
• Tabla Tronics on Life Form Ends by Talvin Singh
• Vocal texture on Cerebral from a session with Toni Halliday (of Curve)
• "Among Myselves" features samples from the David Cronenberg movie Scanners.
• Elizabeth Fraser sings vocals on the title track "Lifeforms".
• Artwork and photography credits include: FSOL, Buggy G Riphead, Peter Atkinson, Stephen Marks, P.Knott, Alistair Shay, Martin Poole and Olaf Wendt, the latter of whom designed the 'spike'/'electronic brain' model.

References

External links

• Lifeforms at Discogs