Breaker Mortar

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Breaker Mortar
Azalia Snail - Breaker Mortar.jpg
Studio album by Azalia Snail
Released 1997 (1997)
Genre Psychedelic folk
Length60:16
Label Dark Beloved Cloud
Producer Azalia Snail
Azalia Snail chronology
Deep Motif
(1996)
Breaker Mortar
(1997)
Soft Bloom
(1999)

Breaker Mortar is the seventh studio album by Azalia Snail, released in 1997 by Dark Beloved Cloud. [1] [2]

Azalia Snail Musician, singer-songwriter, filmmaker

Azalia Snail is an American avant-garde singer-songwriter and musician. She is a multi-instrumentalist active in neo-psychedelia, psychedelic folk and indie rock, played a prominent role in the 1990s lo-fi music scene, and was dubbed the "Queen of Lo-Fi". She is one half of the duo LoveyDove.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Azalia Snail.

No.TitleLength
1."Getting Lei'd"3:28
2."Servant of Smoke"2:43
3."Consult the Map"3:50
4."Savara Veneto"3:38
5."In a Moon Suit"5:02
6."Ginger Ale"2:45
7."Gilt Vatrine"2:18
8."Storm Corff"2:55
9."Statis Que"2:46
10."Gathering Harbingers"1:22
11."Defeo's Death by Rose"3:53
12."I Hold It Close"3:14
13."Are You Going To?"1:25
14."Perhaps"0:48
15."Having an Experiment/I Am Not a Guard"6:13
16."Taking Over"8:15
17."The Snail-Made Man" (Part 1)2:08
18."The Snail-Made Man" (Part 2)2:04
19."The Snail-Made Man" (Part 3)0:54
20."The Snail-Made Man" (Part 4)0:35

Personnel

Adapted from Breaker Mortar liner notes. [3]

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States 1997 Dark Beloved Cloud CD dbc 209

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References

  1. "Azalia Snail: Breaker Mortar > Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  2. Goldberg, Ben (2007). "Azalia Snail". Trouser Press . Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  3. Breaker Mortar (booklet). Azalia Snail. Long Island City, New York: Dark Beloved Cloud. 1997.
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