Occupational Hazard

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Occupational Hazard
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Studio album by
Unsane
ReleasedJanuary 27, 1998
StudioExcello, Brooklyn, NY
Genre
Length39:17
Label Relapse [2]
Producer Billy Anderson, Bruce Hathaway
Unsane chronology
Amrep Xmas
(1997)		Occupational Hazard
(1998)		 Lambhouse: The Collection 1991–1998
(2003)
Singles from Occupational Hazard
  1. "Sick"
    Released: February 20, 1996 [3]

Occupational Hazard is Unsane's fourth studio album. [4] [5] It was released in 1998 through Relapse Records.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Chronicles of Chaos 7/10 [6]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 6/10 [7]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Rock Hard 6.5/10 [8]

Bake Butler of AllMusic described the album as "getting hit by a semi, kicked in the teeth, and thrown down three flights of stairs all at once. [...] In a way unlike almost any other, they scream in your face fairly emotional, damaging lyrics, while breaking the musical boundaries, as well as your eardrums." [1] CMJ New Music Monthly called it "still all meat-grinder riffs slathered on top of a pummeling, breakneck-tempo rhythm section." [9]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Chris Spencer, except "Scam", written by Dave Curran. All songs written by Unsane.

No.TitleLength
1."Committed"2:42
2."This Plan"3:18
3."Over Me"2:56
4."Take in the Stray"3:07
5."Stop"3:36
6."Wait to Lose"3:03
7."Sick"2:35
8."Hazmat"3:08
9."Smells Like Rain"2:38
10."Lead"3:17
11."Humidifier"2:43
12."Scam"2:43
13."Understand"3:21

Credits

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 Butler, Blake. "AllMusic ((( Occupational Hazard > Review )))". AllMusic. Retrieved May 18, 2006.
  2. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 353.
  3. ↑ "The Frank Kozik Resource Center - Unsane - MR 024". mansruin.com. Archived from the original on June 14, 1998. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Unsane | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  5. ↑ Blush, Steven (October 4, 2016). New York Rock: From the Rise of the Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB. Macmillan. ISBN   9781250083616.
  6. ↑ "CoC : Unsane - Occupational Hazard : Review". www.chroniclesofchaos.com.
  7. ↑ Popoff, Martin (2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 470. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
  8. ↑ "Unsane Occupational Hazard". Rock Hard.
  9. ↑ "Reviews". CMJ New Music Monthly. CMJ Network, Inc. May 12, 1998.


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