CHROME Half Machine Lip Moves LP Post Punk Synth Psych

	£		26
	$		34

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CHROME

Half Machine Lip Moves

Original US LP released on Siren Records in 1979.

With Lambdin out and Spain barely there at all, everything rapidly became a Edge/Creed show in the realm of Chrome by the time of Half Machine Lip Moves. The basic tropes having been established -- aggressive but cryptic performance and production, jump cuts between and in songs, judicious use of sampling and production craziness and an overall air of looming science fiction apocalypse and doom -- all Edge and Creed had to do was perfect it.

Starting with the fragmented assault of "TV as Eyes," which rapidly descends into heavily treated conversational snippets from TV and deep, droning keyboards, Half Machine sounds like a weird broadcast from thousand of miles away where rock is treated as an exotic musical form. Creed fully gets to shine here, his pitched-up/pitched-down guitars as good an example of psychedelic assault as anything. Sprawled all over the beeps and murmurs of the songs, not to mention Edge's still self-created drumming and Iggyish vocal interjections, it makes everything sound utterly disturbed.

If not as obsessed with tempo shifts and full oddity as, say, Faust, Half Machine is still pretty close to that band's level of Krautrock playfulness and explosion. Two of the relative saner numbers are practically power-pop, at least in Chrome terms. "March of the Chrome Police" has Edge sneering an actual vocal hook over a brisk beat, even while Creed gets progressively more fried on the guitar and rumbling echoed laughter and barks erupt in the mix. "You've Been Duplicated," meanwhile, also has something of a vocal hook, only buried under so many levels of distortion that it might as well be a malfunctioning keyboard being played among the clattering percussion and other sounds.

A suitably strange cover shot of a fully head-bandaged mannequin seemingly floating in space completes the package.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

TV As Eyes

Zombie Wrfare (Can't Let You Down)

March Of The Chrome Police

You've Been Duplicated

Mondo Anthem

Side Two

Half Machine Lip Moves

Abstract Nympho

Turned Around

Zero Time

Creature Eternal

Critical Mass

Released on 'Siren Records' in 1979

Catalogue No. DE-333-SEC

Disc is in EX+ condition

Sleeve is in VG+ condition (light wear)

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