Severed Heads – City Slab Horror
(Ink Records 1985 INK9)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing
Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
– still in original shrinkwrap
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
Severed Heads were an Australian electronic music group founded in 1979 as Mr and Mrs No Smoking Sign. The original members were Richard Fielding and Andrew Wright, who were soon joined by Tom Ellard. Fielding and Wright had both left the band by mid-1981 with Ellard remaining the sole consistent member for the rest of the band’s existence. Throughout the next decade, several musicians joined Severed Heads’ ranks, including Garry Bradbury, Simon Knuckey, Stephen Jones and Paul Deering.
City Slab Horror is the fifth studio album by the Australian experimental pop music group Severed Heads. First released in 1985 through Ink Records, it was their second major label album release, following 1983’s Since the Accident. The track “Goodbye Tonsils” was released as a single to promote the album, which met favorable reviews from some critics and no reviews at all from the vast majority of the remaining critics.
Track listing
All songs written by Paul Deering and Tom Ellard unless indicated.
Original LP release: UK (Ink, INK 9)
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Spasm” | 0:21 | |
| 2. | “Spastic Crunch” | 2:52 | |
| 3. | “Spitoon Thud” | 4:42 | |
| 4. | “4.W.D” |
|
3:11 |
| 5. | “Ayoompteyempt” | 3:11 | |
| 6. | “The Bladders of a Thousand Bedouin” | 2:54 | |
| 7. | “Now, an Explosive New Movie” |
|
3:49 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8. | “Guests” | 5:28 | |
| 9. | “We Have Come to Bless This House” |
|
3:57 |
| 10. | “Cyflea, Rated R” | 3:36 | |
| 11. | “Goodbye Tonsils” |
|
4:15 |
| 12. | “Voices of the Dead” |
|
5:17 |
Personnel
- Tom Ellard – recording, mixing, self importance, sequencing, tapes, drum programming
- Garry Bradbury – recording, sequencing, drum programming, tapes
- Paul Deering – recording, drum programming, sequencing, tapes
- Stephen Jones – video synthesizers
- Topsy Keevil – production
- Margaret Woods – recording
- Mark Town & Country Plan – artwork
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