Interior Hearts

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Interior Hearts
Legal Weapon - Interior Hearts.jpeg
Studio album by
Released1985
Genre Punk rock
Length35:38
Label Arsenal Records
Producer Pat Burnette, Dan Vargas
Legal Weapon chronology
Your Weapon
(1982)
Interior Hearts
(1985)
Life Sentence to Love
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Robert Christgau B− [2]

Interior Hearts is a studio album by the punk rock band Legal Weapon. [3] It was independently released in 1985 by Arsenal Records. [4]

Contents

Critical reception

Interior Hearts earned mixed to positive reviews. The Los Angeles Times wrote that the band's "sound still packs a punch ... The hard-rock style shows off [Kat] Arthur’s vocal talents in a powerful, uncompromising package." [3] Trouser Press called it "a likable but disappointing LP, with thin sound and more of a country/blues flavor." [5]

Track listing

All songs written by Legal Weapon.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Interior Hearts"3:09
2."Tears of Steel"3:16
3."Too High"4:15
4."Ain't That a Lot of Love"2:44
5."Over the Edge"3:16
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Collisional Love"2:25
2."Except for You"4:25
3."No Direction"2:33
4."Charades"4:15
5."Damaged Memories"3:10
6."Don't Wreck My World"2:10

Personnel

Legal Weapon

Additional musicians and production

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References

  1. Rabid, Jack. "Interior Hearts". Allmusic. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
  2. Christgau, Robert. "Legal Weapon: Interior Hearts". Robert Christgau.com. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
  3. 1 2 "LEGAL WEAPON: BEYOND PUNK". Los Angeles Times. April 27, 1986.
  4. Blush, Steve (2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Feral House. p. 316.
  5. "Legal Weapon". Trouser Press. Retrieved 22 July 2020.