Bursting Bubbles | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1980 | |||
Studio | Alvic Studios, Wimbledon, London | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Label | Virgin V2152 | |||
Producer | Kevin Coyne, Al James | |||
Kevin Coyne chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Q Magazine | [2] |
Bursting Bubbles is a studio album by the British rock musician Kevin Coyne, which was released on the Virgin label in 1980. [2] [3] [4] Colin Larkin in the 2011 edition of his Encyclopedia of Popular Music, gives the album three stars. [5]
This album features the first collaboration with guitarist Brian Godding, who had been playing live with Coyne. Much of the material was quickly recorded according to Godding: "I'd play a riff and he'd get out some pieces of paper and start singing along. I'd say, ‘So now let's develop it,' and he'd say ‘No it's great, it's finished." [6]
The album was described by Penny Kiley of Melody Maker as follows:
Coyne would later perform "Children's Crusade" as part of his concert, on 6 October 1982, at the original Tempodrom, close to the Berlin Wall. The performance was filmed and later released as At The Last Wall. [7] [8]
The album was re-released in 1991 and Q Magazine described it as "in the spirit of the Peel sessions", [2] while Dave Thompson from Allmusic viewed it as 'a darkly tempered, and roughly produced collection'. [1]
Reviewing the album for makeyourowntaste.com in 2013, Allister Thompson wrote: "This is the "difficult" album, and every troubled but talented artist seems to have one... Bursting Bubbles is as naked as Coyne ever was, a collection of heart-wrenching vignettes from the dark side of the mind, sometimes accompanied by weirdly cold post-punk backing, such as the distorted guitar and drum machine of "Dark Dance Hall". Coyne’s voice is an anguished yell of pain on several pieces. Yet there is still much beauty to be found, particularly in what may be Coyne’s finest song, "Children's Crusade"..." [9]
All tracks composed by Kevin Coyne and Brian Godding, except where indicated.
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