Electrical Storm (album)

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Electrical Storm
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ReleasedJune 1985
Recorded1985
StudioSound Barrier Studios, Sydney, New South Wales
Genre Alternative rock
Length33:26
Label Hot Records
Producer Edmund Kuepper, Bruce Calloway
Ed Kuepper chronology
Electrical Storm
(1985)
Rooms of the Magnificent
(1986)

Electrical Storm is the debut solo album by Australian guitarist and songwriter Ed Kuepper featuring Nick Fisher and Louis Tillett recorded in 1985 and released on the Hot label. [1] The album was Kuepper's first release following the breakup of Laughing Clowns, the band he formed after leaving The Saints.

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Kuepper later explained, "I sort of retired. It was at that point Jude and I got married, and went away for a honeymoon on the fabulous Gold Coast. I took a guitar and wrote a lot of songs. And that was Electrical Storm basically. I did it for the princely sum of $1200." [2]

Electrical Storm was reissued on vinyl by Remote Control Records in 2023, after being out of print for 35 years. [3]

Track listing

All writing by Ed Kuepper.

  1. "Car Headlights" – 2:44
  2. "No More Sentimental Jokes" – 2:23
  3. "Master of Two Servants" – 3:06
  4. "A Trick or Two" – 3:07
  5. "When the Sweet Turns Sour" – 2:51
  6. "Another Story" – 2:56
  7. "Electrical Storm" – 4:16
  8. "Told Myself" – 4:00
  9. "One Small Town" – 1:58
  10. "Palace of Sin" – 3:29
  11. "Rainy Night" – 1:55

Personnel

Technical

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References

  1. The Kuepper Files: Discography accessed 2 July 2010
  2. Clinton Walker (1996). Stranded: The Secret History of Australian Independent Music 1977–1991 . Pan MacMillan. p. 180. ISBN   0-7329-0883-3.
  3. LeFevre, Jules (1 June 2023). "Ed Kuepper Announces Extensive 2023 Australian Tour". Music Feeds. Retrieved 31 July 2023.