Degraded Faces
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Publication |
1991 |
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| Label (s) | Energy records | |||
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Title (number) |
10 |
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Degraded Faces is the debut album by the Swedish synth-pop band Elegant Machinery . It was released on Energy Records in 1991 .
The album was recorded in Holkya in the summer of 1990 by producer Jonas Warnebring , a former member of the band French Revolution (except for the titles Safety In Mind and A Little Sacrifice , which were from an earlier demo and recorded at Rogers Studio ) . The cover photo is by Fabio Chiarato and shows two masked people at the Venice Carnival .
The music on Degraded Faces is melodic synthpop that is very much influenced by 1980s British pop. The production is less smooth than on later Elegant Machinery albums .
Track list
- Safety In Mind (LP Version)
- Strange behavior
- A Decade Of Thoughts
- State Of The Nation
- Process
- Approaching Forces
- Degraded Faces
- Black Town
- Thing's I'm saying
- A Little Sacrifice (7 "version)
Single releases
- Safety In Mind (1991) - This song was recorded in Rogers Studio in 1989 and remixed for the album in Holkya. The first version was released on a previous label of Energy Rekords .
- Process (1992) - The song was released as a single by Energy Records and re-recorded by the Spanish label Kong Records . In this version it reached number 5 on the official Spanish charts. On the cover a Venetian carnival mask could be seen against a black and purple background.
Reviews
- Jason Baker of synthpop.net wrote in his review: Fans of the early Erasure and Anything Box will enjoy this album.
Individual evidence
- ↑ synthpop.net - Elegant Machinery - Degraded Faces ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
