Disappeared (album)

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Disappeared
Disappearedspringheeljack.jpg
Studio album by
Released22 August 2000
Label Thirsty Ear [1]
Producer Spring Heel Jack
Spring Heel Jack chronology
Treader
(1999)
Disappeared
(2000)
Masses
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
Robert Christgau Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [3]
Pitchfork Media 7.7/10 [4]

Disappeared is an album by English electronic duo Spring Heel Jack. [5] The album was released by Thirsty Ear on 22 August 2000.

Contents

Critical reception

Keyboard wrote that Spring Heel Jack "slams together big beats and distorted industrial sampies in an all-instrumental collage that's both fresh and unpretentious." [6] The Times called the album "an inventive exercise which sees [the band] vaulting across a dozen different genres," writing that "[Ashley] Wales's elastic trumpet talents are a constant, occasionally complemented by guest clarinet, but it's the clatter of breakbeats that dominates." [7]

Track listing

  1. "Rachel Point" (John Coxon, Ashley Wales) – 6:31
  2. "Mit Wut" (Coxon, Wales) – 7:06
  3. "Disappeared 1" (Coxon, John Surman, Wales) – 6:14
  4. "Bane" (Coxon, Wales) – 4:34
  5. "Galina" (Coxon, Wales) – 7:14
  6. "Trouble and Luck" (Coxon, Wales) – 5:49
  7. "I Undid Myself" (Coxon, Wales) – 4:25
  8. "Lester" (Coxon, Wales) – 1:30
  9. "To Die a Little" (Coxon, Wales) – 3:14
  10. "Disappeared 2" (Coxon, Surman, Wales) – 4:59
  11. "Wolfing" (Coxon, Wales) – 5:30

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  2. AllMusic review
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