Bowery Electric - Beat

Label:

Kranky

Catalog#:

KRANK 014

Format:

CD, Album

Country:

Released:

1996

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

Abstract, Experimental

Tracklist

1	Beat	7:16	X
2	Empty Words	3:45	X
3	Without Stopping	5:13	X
4	Under The Sun	3:32	X
5	Fear Of Flying	5:39	X
6	Looped	2:39	X
7	Black Light	6:53	X
8	Inside Out	7:19	X
9	Coming Down	4:38	X
10	Postscript	16:41	X

Credits

Bass, Keyboards, Vocals - Martha Schwendener
Drums - Wayne Magruder (tracks: 2, 7, 8, 9)
Guitar, Keyboards, Programming, Vocals - Lawrence Chandler
Photography [Cover] - Catherine Opie
Producer - Bowery Electric , Rich Costey

Notes

Recorded at Studio 45, Hartford. Mixed and edited at Looking Glass, New York.
Cover Photograph "Untitled No 27" from Freeway Series

▸ show all 2 reviews

Reviews & Discussion

Post Review or Comment

Rated 5/5

Review by darkwave Aug 29, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)

Before there was Morr Music and other labels that popularized the very willing combination of shoegaze/dreampop and ambient electronica in the very late 90s and early 2000s (perhaps culminating in the release of the Slowdive cover/tribute album "Blue Skied An' Clear"), there was this album. The perfect blend of soaring, fuzzed out guitars, ambient synth work, and beats, this is clearly the pinnacle of Bowery Electric's catalog.

Rated 5/5

Review by zeroplate Sep 15, 2001 (edited over 8 years ago)

How can you not have this album yet? Though their self-titled debut was more organic, it was a thinner and less enveloping than Beat. The recent follow up album took the band in the opposite (wrong) direction, as the drone-rockers suddenly felt that they were hip hop producers. Nevertheless, this record is utterly, unbelievably good.

helpful agree disagree Reply report notify me

history / edit