Title: One of the most difficult albums in my collection
Product review: This record makes little more sense to me now than it does when I first taped it at school back in 1976. This was precisely the sort of record that kept your parents out of your bedroom. "Why do you want to go and waste your money on this rubbish?", my Mum would say if she entered at the point in most Henry Cow tracks where it had disintegrated into a series of atonal improvisations and hittings and scratchings.The arrival of the Slapp Happy mob, in particular the voice of Dagmar Krause, imposed a song structure on some Henry Cow tracks, but it didn't stop them meandering off into many random avenues. Krause's delivery is almost operatic. You couldn't call it Lieder, but it is germanic.But this is very heavy stuff. Not many peoples' cup of tea, but a taste worth acquiring, nonetheless.
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