CHROME Half Machine Lip Moves LP NM/OOP True 1st Press 1979 Siren KBD w/Poster
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CHROME Half Machine Lip Moves LP NM/OOP True 1st Press 1979 Siren KBD w/Poster CHROME "Half Machine Lip Moves" LP
Original and OUT OF PRINT 11-song 12" VINYL LP w/poster insert as released by Siren Records, US (DE-333-SE) label back in 1979.
True 1st pressing w/poster insert. ORIGINAL record label (Siren), not a re-issue (Dossier, Touch & Go, Cleopatra, etc) in ultra clean condition inside and out. Poster pictured herein appears black but that's the way it scans. Item is actually in a reddish sepia ink (no tack holes or tape on it either--clean). Absolutely, hands-down clean true first of this seminal classic. Don't be a fool and let this opportunity to nab the real deal pass you by.
Low starting price, NO RESERVE.
• Vinyl is NEAR MINT / Dust Jacket is NEAR MINT •
REVIEW
by Neil Raggert
With Lambdin out and Spain barely there at all, everything rapidly became an Edge/Creed show in the realm of Chrome by the time of Half Machine Lip Moves. The basic tropes having been established -- aggressive but cryptic performance and production, jump cuts between and in songs, judicious use of sampling and production craziness, and an overall air of looming science fiction apocalypse and doom -- all Edge and Creed had to do was perfect it. Starting with the fragmented assault of "TV as Eyes," which rapidly descends into heavily treated, conversational snippets from TV and deep, droning keyboards, Half Machine sounds like a weird broadcast from thousands of miles away where rock is treated as an exotic musical form. Creed fully gets to shine here, his pitched-up/pitched-down guitars as good an example of psychedelic assault as anything. Sprawled all over the beeps and murmurs of the songs, not to mention Edge's still self-created drumming and Iggy-ish vocal interjections, the guitars make everything sound utterly disturbed. If not as obsessed with tempo shifts and oddity as, say, Faust, Half Machine is still pretty close to that band's level of Krautrock playfulness and explosion. Two of the relative saner numbers are practically power pop, at least in Chrome terms. "March of the Chrome Police (A Cold Clamey Bombing)" has Edge sneering an actual vocal hook over a brisk beat, even while Creed gets progressively more fried on the guitar, and rumbling echoed laughter and barks erupt in the mix. "You've Been Duplicated," meanwhile, also has something of a vocal hook, only buried under so many levels of distortion that it might as well be a malfunctioning keyboard being played among the clattering percussion and other sounds. A suitably strange cover shot of a fully head-bandaged mannequin seemingly floating in space completes the package.
This specific title is part of a 5,000 piece record collection I am in the process of unloading and comprised wholly of fringe and underground music of all stripes. Punk, Post-Punk, KBD, SXE, Industrial, Experimental, Metal, Electronica, Goth, Free Jazz, Jazz, Sound Effects, etc.... so check back as I'll be posting on average 50 pieces or more a week. All records in this collection run primarily as being NEAR MINT with many being more to the top end of the MINT spectrum and with very few pieces being anything less then VERY GOOD PLUS.... Tons of rarities, all must go!!!!
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