Unsane (album)

Unsane
Studio album by Unsane
Released 1991
Recorded January 16, 1991
Genre Post-hardcore[1], noise rock
Length 36:52
Label Matador Records
Producer Wharton Tiers
Unsane
Unsane chronology

Unsane
(1991)		 Singles 89-92
(1992)

Unsane was the 1991 debut album of New York noise-rock group Unsane.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Piero Scaruffi [2]

Patrick Kennedy from allmusic called it a a brilliant and daring debut that "assaults the senses like the Swans or Foetus before them, but tempers that art-scum priggishness with clear roots in punk and classic rock."[1] Piero Scaruffi gave the album 8 out of 10, describing the record as "Cascades of atrocious sounds destabilized its songs and generated a form of hysterical tribalism." It would be placed at #24 on his "Best Punk-Rock Albums of All Times" list as well as selecting it as the sixth best album of 1991.[3][4]

Tour

During the tour supporting the album, Charlie Ondras died of a heroin overdose during the 1992 New Music Seminar in New York.[5]

Covers

Death metal band Entombed covered "Vandal-X" on their self-titled compilation album in 1997.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Unsane. 

No. Title Length
1. "Organ Donor"   2:10
2. "Bath"   2:54
3. "Maggot"   3:17
4. "Cracked Up"   2:57
5. "Slag"   2:43
6. "Exterminator"   5:55
7. "Vandal-X"   2:04
8. "HLL."   2:31
9. "AZA-2000"   2:33
10. "Cut"   2:48
11. "Action Man"   2:28
12. "White Hand"   4:26
Total length:
 36:52

Personnel

Unsane
Additional musicians and production

References

  1. ^ a b c Kennedy, Patrick. "allmusic ((( Unsane > Review )))". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r20861. Retrieved January 17, 2011. 
  2. ^ Scaruffi, Piero. "Unsane". pieroscaruffi.com (Italian). Retrieved on January 17, 2011.
  3. ^ Piero Scaruffi's "Best Punk-Rock Albums of All Times" Piero Scaruffi list, cited January 17, 2011
  4. ^ Piero Scaruffi's "The Best Rock Albums of 1991" Piero Scaruffi list, cited January 17, 2011
  5. ^ Jones, Brad. "Unsane in the Brain". Unsane Biography. October 1994, cited March 31, 2011.
Unsane
Chris Spencer · Dave Curran · Vincent Signorelli
Charlie Ondras · Pete Shore
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