| Fear No Love | ||||
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| Released | February 18, 1995 | |||
| Recorded | spring – summer 1994 | |||
| Studio | Bob's bedroom | |||
| Genre | Experimental | |||
| Length | 49:18 | |||
| Label | Avant | |||
| Bob Ostertag chronology | ||||
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Fear No Love is the fourth studio album by Bob Ostertag, released on February 18, 1995 by Avant Records. [1] The album's concept deals with the phobias surrounding queer love including fear of intimacy, fear of gender, fear of stereotypes, fear of AIDS, fear of rejection and fear of fear. [2] [3]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [4] |
Dean McFarlane of AllMusic noted the surrealism and black humor of Fear No Love and awarded the album three and a half out of five stars, saying "those expecting a heady avant-garde experiment may be shocked to find this record to be a hilarious plunderphonic sampling attack on disco,techno, and R&B music." [4] [5] The Wire gave the album a positive review, saying "Ostertag's method of computeranatomising his colleagues' contributions into samples and mechanically constructing songs out of them is more than usually redundant on this only mildly diverting, dirty talking and dotty pseudofunk outing." [6] The Advocate said "there's an intensely homo sense of humor and humanity at work that enlivens the experimentation." [2]
All tracks are written by Sarah Miles, except "Scared of Love" by Christian Huygen
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Scared of Love" | 8:23 |
| 2. | "The Man in the Blue Slip" | 10:50 |
| 3. | "Eat Dust" | 4:44 |
| 4. | "Not Your Girl" | 6:00 |
| 5. | "Right Like a Railroad" | 10:27 |
| 6. | "Positive" | 8:55 |
Adapted from the Fear No Love liner notes. [7]
Musicians
Additional musicians
Production and design
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 1995 | Avant | CD | Avan 041 |
| United States | 2010 | Free Music Archive | DL |
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