Life in Exile After Abdication | ||||
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Released | 1989 | |||
Recorded | March 1988, June – October 1988 | |||
Studio | Noise New York, West 34th St, New York City; Mirror Image, Gainesville, Florida | |||
Genre | Alternative pop, rock, post-punk | |||
Label | 50 Skidillion Watts [1] | |||
Producer | Moe Tucker | |||
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AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Robert Christgau | B+ [1] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Spin Alternative Record Guide | 8/10 [6] |
Life in Exile after Abdication is the second album by Moe Tucker, released in 1989. [7] [8]
Rather than performing all of the instruments herself, as on her debut album, Tucker is accompanied by Lou Reed, Jad Fair, Daniel Johnston, and all four members of Sonic Youth. [9]
Robert Christgau wrote that "'Work,' 'Spam Again,' and 'Hey Mersh!' are Amerindie knockouts, lived postpunk takes on the grind and release of lower-middle class adulthood, a subject rock and rollers usually leave to Nashville company men." [1] Trouser Press wrote that "Tucker’s loose and unpredictable Life in Exile offers a little of everything, all performed and recorded with ramshackle casualness." [9] The Chicago Reader called the album "a tour de force recording that wedded noisy indie guitar textures to songs of blue-collar rage, fueled by [Tucker's] years as a divorced mother of five trying to support her family on a Wal-Mart paycheck." [10] The Washington Post wrote that "anyone who ever loved Maureen Tucker -- and that surely includes all true Velvet fans -- will find Life in Exile, motley as it is, irresistible." [11] The Spin Alternative Record Guide deemed the album Tucker's "finest solo outing." [6] The New Yorker thought that the album "demonstrated an abiding love for Bo Diddley rock and girl-group pop, played as if by dinosaurs and sung as if by a choirgirl." [12]
Reed selected the album as one of his "picks of 1989". [13]
All tracks written by Moe Tucker except where noted.
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