Aluminum (album)

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Aluminum
Gods Child Alt Cover Aluminum .jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1996
RecordedJuly 1995, Brooklyn
October 1995, Los Angeles
Genre
Length43:48
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Tim Palmer
Gods Child chronology
Everybody
(1994)
Aluminum
(1996)
Dream This
(1999)
Singles from Aluminum
  1. "Female Elvis (I'm The Man)"
    Released: July 1996
  2. "This Is The Real World?"
    Released: November 1996
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Aluminum was the second album from New York City band Gods Child.

Contents

Produced by Tim Palmer (who has worked with such acts as Pearl Jam, Sponge, and Mission UK), the album features a spaced-out aura, solid musicianship and soaring sonics. It is littered with damaged guitars, distressed mellotron, and raw vocals.[ citation needed ]

Aluminum was critically acclaimed, but singles "Female Elvis" and "This is the Real World?" only charted regionally. "Need" was featured in the Fox Network television series Melrose Place .

After this album, the band moved from New York City to Los Angeles and recorded their follow-up album Dream This under the new moniker Joe 90 in 1999.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Chris Seefried unless noted

Aluminum
No.TitleLength
1."This Is the Real World?"4:04
2."Princess, Princess"4:01
3."Need"3:19
4."Female Elvis"3:45
5."Space Boy"4:52
6."2001"3:47
7."Heart of Extasy"5:06
8."Picture This"4:13
9."Lift Me Up" (Seefried, DeRosa, Ruda)4:23
10."Serve Yourself"5:58

Credits and personnel

Additional personnel

Singles

YearSingle
1996"Female Elvis (I'm the Man)"
1996"This Is the Real World?"

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