''Haul Ass'' is the eleventh studio album by

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group

Severed Heads Severed Heads were an Australian electronic music group founded in 1979 in music, 1979 as Mr and Mrs No Smoking Sign. The original members were Richard Fielding and Andrew Wright, who were soon joined by Tom Ellard. Fielding and Wright had both ...

. After Tom Ellard's relationship soured with

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and

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, he decided to release ''Haul Ass'' independently through his then newly formed Sevcom imprint, making ''Haul Ass'' the first independently released Severed Heads album since 1982's ''

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''. The album was burned on

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discs, while the artwork for the jewel cases were home printed with the use of a computer printer. Two editions were made, the "standard edition", which had prominently red and grey artwork, and the "special edition", which included two extra tracks not included on the standard edition. The special edition was limited to only 1000 copies. Tom Ellard has described the album as "dark". The entire album was recorded with software called Session 8, the precursor of

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Track listing

Personnel

Tom Ellard Thomas Temple Ellard (born 1962) is an Australian electronic musician best known as the founding member of the electronic and industrial music group Severed Heads. Early life Ellard's first music contributions began in the late 1970s as a tee ...

- production, vocals, music * Stephen Jones - live performances *Alison Cole - live performances *Paul Mac - live performances *Ben Suthers - live performances

References

External links

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Bandcamp page
{{Authority control Severed Heads albums 1998 albums