Gilt (album)

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Gilt
Machinesoflovinggrace gilt cover.jpg
Studio album by
Machines of Loving Grace
ReleasedSeptember 19, 1995
Genre Hard rock, industrial rock
Label Mammoth [1]
Producer Sylvia Massy [2]
Machines of Loving Grace chronology
Concentration
(1993)		Gilt
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Gilt is an album by Machines of Loving Grace, released in 1995. [4] [5] Unlike past albums, guitars play a far greater role in the sound of this release.

Contents

The cover image was based upon a photograph taken by Robert Wiles in 1947 of Evelyn McHale, who had leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building.

Critical reception

Trouser Press called Gilt "a garish noise-powered album less tiresomely dependent on keyboards than the first two." [6] AllMusic wrote that "great production helps the rhythm hit you right in the chest, and what Gilt lacks in song variety, it makes up for in consistency of quality." [3]

Track listing

All tracks by Machines of Loving Grace

  1. "Richest Junkie Still Alive" – 3:36
  2. "Kiss Destroyer" – 3:13
  3. "Suicide King" – 4:04
  4. "Animal Mass" – 4:32
  5. "The Soft Collision" – 4:50
  6. "Solar Temple" – 3:46
  7. "Tryst" – 3:24
  8. "Casual Users" – 4:27
  9. "Twofold Godhead" – 3:33
  10. "Last" – 3:46
  11. "Serpico" – 3:45

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References

  1. ↑ "Reviews & Previews". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. September 16, 1995 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Senior, Mike (August 21, 2014). Recording Secrets for the Small Studio. CRC Press. ISBN   9781317999904 – via Google Books.
  3. 1 2 "Gilt - Machines of Loving Grace". Allmusic.
  4. ↑ "Machines of Loving Grace | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  5. ↑ "World View News". Keyboard. 21: 13. December 1995.
  6. ↑ "TrouserPress.com :: Machines of Loving Grace". www.trouserpress.com.



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