Pop-Eyes
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Pop-Eyes is the first solo album by Danielle Dax
, a British experimental musician and former member of The Lemon Kittens
. It was originally recorded in 1982 and released in 1983 on the Awesome Records label. The album was re-released in 1992 on the Biter Of Thorpe label (BOT131-01CD) and distributed through World Serpent Distribution
.
Dax wrote and produced all the songs on the album as well as playing the guitar, drums, bass, flute, keyboards, banjo, tenor & soprano saxophones, trumpet, tapes, drone guitar, TR-808, toys and voices. The original "Meat Harvest" art work for Pop Eyes was also created by Dax and proved to be too shocking for some in the music industry. It was later replaced with artwork created by Holly Warburton. Warburton's artwork can be found on most of Dax's early work.
Danielle Dax
Danielle Dax is an experimental musician and producer most active from the late-1970s to the mid-1990s. She was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex.- Biography :...
, a British experimental musician and former member of The Lemon Kittens
The Lemon Kittens
Lemon Kittens are a post-punk band, formed in Reading, Berkshire, England in 1977, by Karl Blake and Gary Thatcher. The cast of the band revolved quite frequently, notably counting among its membership musicians such as Danielle Dax and Mark Perry .-Discography:*Spoonfed & Writhing Lemon Kittens...
. It was originally recorded in 1982 and released in 1983 on the Awesome Records label. The album was re-released in 1992 on the Biter Of Thorpe label (BOT131-01CD) and distributed through World Serpent Distribution
World Serpent Distribution
World Serpent Distribution was a British record label and music distribution house formed in the 1990s by David Gibson, Alan Trench and Alison Webster...
.
Dax wrote and produced all the songs on the album as well as playing the guitar, drums, bass, flute, keyboards, banjo, tenor & soprano saxophones, trumpet, tapes, drone guitar, TR-808, toys and voices. The original "Meat Harvest" art work for Pop Eyes was also created by Dax and proved to be too shocking for some in the music industry. It was later replaced with artwork created by Holly Warburton. Warburton's artwork can be found on most of Dax's early work.
Track listing
- "Bed Caves" (3:14)
- "Everyone Squeaks Gently" (3:36)
- "The Wheeled Wagon" (5:51)
- "The Stone Guest" (1:59)
- "Here Come The Harvest Buns" (3:00)
- "The Shamemen" (3:44)
- "Kernow" (4:18)
- "Numb Companions" (3:59)
- "Tower Of Lies" (2:49)
- "Cutting The Last Sheaf" (3:12)