Mix-Up (Cabaret Voltaire album)
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| Studio album by Cabaret Voltaire | ||||
| Released | 23 October 1979 | |||
| Recorded | July–August 1979 | |||
| Studio | Western Works, Sheffield | |||
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| Label | Rough Trade | |||
| Producer | Cabaret Voltaire | |||
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Mix-Up is the debut studio album by English band Cabaret Voltaire. It was released on 23 October 1979, through record label Rough Trade.
Content
The album contains a cover of The Seeds' song "No Escape".
Critical reception
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
| Smash Hits | 5/10[3] |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 7/10[4] |
Writing in Smash Hits in 1979, Red Starr said the album was an "intriguing but only occasionally attractive array of verbal and musical images". Starr went on to say that it sounded like "pointless backroom self indulgence".[3]
Head Heritage retrospectively viewed Mix-Up as a "great snapshot of a brief period in post-punk UK when there was a sudden urge to grapple with a bizarre, homemade, hamfisted white dub landscape."[5] AllMusic writer Andy Kellman was less favourable, writing that "Cabaret Voltaire's first two proper studio albums hardly match the greatness of later works like Red Mecca, 2 X 45 and even 3 Crepuscule Tracks", while noting that Mix-Up "only helped solidify Cabaret Voltaire's status as an integral part of the extended frisson of 1978-1982 post-punk".[1]
Track listing
All tracks written by Cabaret Voltaire (Chris Watson, Richard H. Kirk, Stephen Mallinder), except as noted.
| Side A | ||
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| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Kirlian Photograph" | 5:32 |
| 2. | "No Escape" (written by Sky Saxon) | 3:34 |
| 3. | "Fourth Shot" | 3:57 |
| 4. | "Heaven and Hell" | 5:45 |
| 5. | "Eyeless Sight" (live) | 3:12 |
| Side B | ||
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| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Photophobia" (lyrics by "Victor") | 5:49 |
| 2. | "On Every Other Street" | 4:01 |
| 3. | "Expect Nothing" | 6:05 |
| 4. | "Capsules" | 4:04 |
Personnel
- Cabaret Voltaire
- Stephen Mallinder – vocals, bass guitar, percussion
- Chris Watson – synthesizers, tapes
- Richard H. Kirk – guitar, synthesizers, wind instruments
- Haydn Boyes Weston – drums
- Additional personnel
References
- 1 2 3 Kellman, Andy. "Mix-Up – Cabaret Voltaire". AllMusic. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
- ↑ Considine, J. D. (2004). "Cabaret Voltaire". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. pp. 128–29. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
- 1 2 Starr, Red (15–28 November 1979). "Albums". Smash Hits: 31.
- ↑ Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig, eds. (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
- ↑ mare-C (22 April 2002). "Cabaret Voltaire – Mix-Up". Head Heritage. Retrieved 3 September 2016.