| Unsane | ||||
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| Studio album by Unsane | ||||
| Released | 1991 | |||
| Recorded | January 16, 1991 | |||
| Studio | Fun City (New York City, New York) | |||
| Genre | Noise rock | |||
| Length | 36:52 | |||
| Label | Matador | |||
| Producer | Wharton Tiers, Unsane | |||
| Unsane chronology | ||||
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Unsane is the debut album by Unsane, released in 1991 through Matador Records. It is the only studio album by the group to feature founding member Charlie Ondras (with the exception of 1989's Improvised Munitions, which didn't get a proper release until 2021). Ondras died of a heroin overdose during the 1992 New Music Seminar in New York during the tour supporting Unsane. The album's cover art, depicting a decapitated corpse on subway tracks, was given to the band from a friend who worked on the investigation for the case.
Death metal band Entombed covered "Vandal-X" on their self-titled compilation album in 1997.
Reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Ox-Fanzine | |
| Select | |
Patrick Kennedy from AllMusic called it a brilliant and daring debut that "assaults the senses like the Swans or Foetus before them, but tempers that art-scum priggishness with clear roots in punk and classic rock."
Track listing
All tracks are written by Unsane
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Organ Donor" | 2:10 |
| 2. | "Bath" | 2:54 |
| 3. | "Maggot" | 3:17 |
| 4. | "Cracked Up" | 2:57 |
| 5. | "Slag" | 2:43 |
| 6. | "Exterminator" | 5:55 |
| 7. | "Vandal-X" | 2:04 |
| 8. | "HLL." | 2:31 |
| 9. | "AZA-2000" | 2:33 |
| 10. | "Cut" | 2:48 |
| 11. | "Action Man" | 2:28 |
| 12. | "White Hand" | 4:26 |
| Total length: | 36:52 | |
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References
- ^ Kennedy, Patrick. "Unsane Review". AllMusic. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
- Earles, Andrew (2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. p. 346.
- Manning, Todd (May 4, 2021). "Unsane's Journey Through The Past". Rock and Roll Globe. Retrieved September 23, 2024.
- Jones, Brad. "Unsane in the Brain". Unsane Biography, October 1994. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
- Jagernauth, Kevin (2015-10-29). "Exclusive: Have A Religious Experience With Unsane In Clip From Amphetamine Reptile Doc 'The Color Of Noise'". indiewire.com. Indie Wire. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - Larkin, Colin, ed. (2006). "Unsane". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8 (4th ed.). New York : MUZE : Oxford University Press. p. 353. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4 – via Internet Archive.
- Hiller, Joachim (December 2022). "Review". Ox-Fanzine (in German). Retrieved 2024-01-06.
- Perry, Andrew (May 1992). "Soundbites". Select. EMAP. p. 73.
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