Jane from Occupied Europe

...In "Jane from Occupied Europe" is the second and last album by British post-punk group Swell Maps. The original 1980 issue of the album, released on Rather Records/Rough Trade, contained the first fourteen tracks, and the reissue in 1989 released by Mute Records added eight bonus tracks.

For the band, see Jane from Occupied Europe (band).
...In "Jane from Occupied Europe"
Studio album by
Swell Maps
Released1980 (re-release 1989)
RecordedJune 1979 - May 1980 (WMRS, Leamington Spa), except "Mining Villages" July 1977 ("at home"), "Epic's Trip" & "Big Empty Field (No. 2)" March 1980 (London)
GenreArt punk, post-punk, experimental rock
Length44:17
LabelRough Trade
ProducerSwell Maps
Swell Maps chronology
A Trip to Marineville
(1979)		 ...In "Jane from Occupied Europe"
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Pitchfork8.2/10[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[3]
Spin Alternative Record Guide7/10[4]
Uncut[5]

In 2018, Pitchfork ranked it 165th on their list "The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s", writing: "Swell Maps pasted mostly incomprehensible, drawled vocals into noisy, krautrock-inspired sound collages, straying further beyond the boundaries of any existing genre with each release. Their second album, Jane From Occupied Europe, marked the culmination of that trajectory. It was, most of all, a catalog of thrilling new sounds".[6] The album title was also adapted by a band eight years later, who told NME, “Swell Maps thought up some really great titles and, er… we just ripped it off.”[7]

Track listing

Original Album

Side One:

  1. "Robot Factory" (Soundtracks/Earl) – 2:27
  2. "Let's Buy a Bridge" (Sudden) – 1:55
  3. "Border Country" (Sudden) – 2:12
  4. "Cake Shop" (retitled "Cake Shop Girl" in the reissue) (Head) – 2:25
  5. "The Helicopter Spies" (Sudden) – 4:20
  6. "Big Maz in "The Desert From The Trolley"" (Swell Maps) – 5:11
  7. "Big Empty Field" (Soundtracks/Earl) – 3:44
  8. "Mining Villages" (Soundtracks/Sportsman) – 1:01

Side Two:

  1. "Collision with a Frogman vs. The Mangrove Delta Plan" (Swell Maps) – 8:06
  2. "Secret Island" (Sudden) – 4:34
  3. "Whatever Happens Next...." (Sudden) – 2:58
  4. "Blenheim Shots" (Sudden) – 3:42
  5. "A Raincoat's Room" (retitled "Raining in My Room" in the reissue) (Soundtracks) – 1:42

Bonus tracks
  1. "Let's Build a Car" (Sudden) – 3:06
  2. "Epic's Trip" (Soundtracks) – 0:55
  3. "...uh..." (Swell Maps) – 0:31
  4. "Secret Island" (instrumental) (Sudden) – 6:27
  5. "Amphitheatres" (Swell Maps) – 2:56
  6. "Big Empty Field" (No. 2) (Soundtracks/Earl) – 2:59
  7. "The Stairs are Like an Avalanche" (Swell Maps) – 4:04
  8. "...then Poland" (Swell Maps) – 0:52
  9. "New York" (Sudden) - 3:19

Personnel
  • Epic Soundtracks – drums, piano, organ, toys, vocals, handclaps, violin, guitars, sax, concrete, typewriter
  • Nikki Sudden – vocals, guitar, organ, toys, handclaps, bass, piano
  • Jowe Head – bass, sax, guitar, toys, vocals
  • Richard Earl – guitar, organ, toys, vocals, handclaps, bass
  • David Barrington – guitar, violin, kazoo, vocals, bass
  • John Cockrill - handclaps and vocals on track 5
  • Barry Gray – organ on track 2

References
  1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Jane from Occupied Europe – Swell Maps". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  2. Tangari, Joe (22 November 2004). "Swell Maps: A Trip to Marineville / Jane from Occupied Europe". Pitchfork. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  3. Wolk, Douglas (2004). "Swell Maps". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 799–800. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  4. Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig, eds. (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
  5. "Swell Maps: Jane from Occupied Europe". Uncut: 123. Jane... majors in innocent instrumental prog-rock...
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