Recollection

Attrition | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 10, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Projekt Records
• ASIN: B000000BCH
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #502,785 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Monkey In A Bin

2. Beasy Of Burden

3. A'dam & Eva

4. Into The Waves

5. The Next Day

6. Shrinkwrap

7. Pendulum Turns

8. Mind Drop

9. Fusillade III (Both Barrels)

10. Haydn (Remix)

11. Death Truck

12. My Friend Is Golden

13. Lady Look Now

14. Shotgun Dream

15. To The Devil!

16. At The Fiftieth Gate

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars glimpse of the early days, March 10, 2000

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Pandora Boxx (San Diego ,CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Recollection (Audio CD)

If you are a fan of Attrition this is a geat album to buy for a glimpse of Attrition in their early days.Attrition's music resinates with electronic sounds of Industrial influences to Gothic rock with a twist.Martin Bowes vocals are dark and rough, while Julia Waller's haunting vocals add a bit of mystery to the atmosphere.Most of the songs on the recollection '84 - '89 are a bit more on the gothic rock edge and definetly worth listening to.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars THE MOST ENCHANTING ATTRITION ALBUM TO DATE, December 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Recollection (Audio CD)

THE MUSIC CONVEYS SIMPLE TORRENT TO SHEER BLISS. ENGROSSING LYRICAL/VOCAL STYLE LIKE NO AMERICAN ROCK AROUND. FIND THIS AND ANY OTHER BY ATTRITION WITH OUT REGRETS... FIND ALSO "HIDDEN AGENDA" BY ATTRITION, FOR A TECH-GOTH EDGE YOU CAN'T REMOVE FROM YOUR SKULL......PURE TALENT..SO RARE.......

4.0 out of 5 stars Title, July 24, 2000

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A. Clark (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Recollection (Audio CD)

I've been into Goth music the better part of the last 12 years and at this point my interest in bands that cannot be classified as anything but "Goth" is waning a bit. So it is very seldom that I check out an album like this (I'd only heard a handful of their songs prior to this) these days and even more seldom that I can say anything positive for it. Attrition takes the goth label and wears it with a badge of pride, and thankfully the lyrics are anything but stereotypical (rather silly and trite actually). The first song "Monkey in a Bin" is by far the funniest and most unique, wit dat funky synth bass, female vocals which sound Gremlin-like and outrageously deep male vocals. The rest of the songs on the first half of the album except "The Next Day" and "Mind Drop" are worthless...the deep male vocals do not compliment the weak artsy fartsy electronics and are hampered even more by the nagging, warbly vocals of the female vocalist. Starting with my favorite song on this album, "Haydn", the style shifts dramatically to a sound reminiscent of The Sisters of Mercy meets early electro punk/goth Alien Sex Fiend. Thankfully Martin Bowes does all the vocals on these songs and his voice no longer sticks out like a sore thumb. All of the quintessential elements of 80's dancefloor goth are here, reverb laden guitars, throbbing elecronic bass, deep male vocals, the drum machine and highlighted by creative synths and sequencing. Months after buying this "Haydn", "Death Truck", "My Friend Is Golden", "To the Devil" and "At the Fiftieth Gate" are still stuck in my head and I'm still impressed.