Pretty Ugly [Import]

Peter Scherer, Scherer/Lindsay | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 25, 1995)
• Format: Import
• Label: Made to Measure
• ASIN: B000003HGW
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #763,947 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pretty Ugly

2. Austere and Hungry

3. Bold Condensed

4. Sirens

5. Nature of Slam

6. Plastic Surgery

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly otherworldly, August 30, 2001

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Ron (El Cerrito, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pretty Ugly (Audio CD)

This is Lindsay and Scherer's best collaboration, though their work together as Ambitious Lovers is excellent. I think of Lindsay as the current torchbearer of the kind of funky creativity that the Talking Heads used to have, back when they were working with Brian Eno. And this largely instrumental album has the same compelling power as Eno/Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts--a dreamlike, edgy concatenation of sonic textures and beats. Lindsay's trademark scratchy detuned guitar perfectly counterpoints Scherer's synth wizardry. But while this is more avant-garde than the Ambitious Lovers albums (or even Lindsay's marvelous recent solo albums), it's still highly listenable. I've owned this disc for at least six or seven years, and I still put it on whenever I need creative inspiration. One of my ten desert island discs, hands down.