''Pindrop'' is the debut studio album by English
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band
The Passage
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, released in 1980 by record label Object.
Reception
''Pindrop'' has received a positive critical reception. ''
NME
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'' called it "a word of disciplined intellectual aggression, frantic emotions and powerfully idiomatic musicality". ''
Sounds
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'' called the album "as innovative and individual as ''
154
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Unknown Pleasures
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Trouser Press
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'' called it "easily one of the most mysteriously brilliant albums ever".
Track listing
All tracks composed by Dick Witts; all lyrics by Dick Witts except where noted.
;Pin side
#"Fear"
#"Troops Out"
#"Carnal"
#"Watching You Dance"
#"Hunt"
#"Anderton's Hall"
#"From the Heart"
;Drop side
#"Locust"
#"2711"
#"16 Hours" (Witts,
Tony Friel
Tony Friel (born 4 May 1958)
)
#"Carmen"
#"A Certain Way to Go"
#"Prelude"
Personnel
;The Passage
*
Dick Witts
Richard "Dick" Witts (born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire) is an English musicologist, music historian, and ex leader of 1980s band the Passage. He attended Clee Grammar School for Boys.
He studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music and b ...
- vocals, treatments
;Technical
*Stewart Pickering - engineer
*Jeremy Greenwood - cover design
References
External links
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1980 debut albums
The Passage (band) albums