Poem of the River

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Poem of the River
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Studio album by Felt
Released June 1987
Genre Indie pop
Length26:05
Label Creation
Producer Mayo Thompson
Felt chronology
Forever Breathes the Lonely Word
(1986)
Poem of the River
(1987)
Gold Mine Trash
(1987)
Professional ratings
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Poem of the River is the seventh album by English alternative rock band Felt, released in 1987.

England Country in north-west Europe, part of the United Kingdom

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Alternative rock is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. In this instance, the word "alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream rock music. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their collective debt to either the musical style or simply the independent, DIY ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music. At times, "alternative" has been used as a catch-all description for music from underground rock artists that receives mainstream recognition, or for any music, whether rock or not, that is seen to be descended from punk rock. Although the genre evolved in the late 1970s and 1980s, music anticipating the sound of the genre can be found as early as the 1960s, with bands such as The Velvet Underground.

Felt were an English indie pop band, formed in 1979 in Water Orton, Warwickshire, and led by the mononymous Lawrence. They were active for ten years through the 1980s, releasing ten singles and ten albums. The band's name was inspired by Tom Verlaine's emphasis of the word "felt" in the Television song "Venus".

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Lawrence.

No.TitleLength
1."Declaration"1:47
2."Silver Plane"2:38
3."She Lives by the Castle"6:18
4."Stained Glass Windows in the Sky"2:06
5."Riding on the Equator"8:54
6."Dark Red Birds"4:18

Personnel

Felt
Lawrence (musician) British musician

Lawrence Hayward, known mononymously as Lawrence, is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is known as the frontman in the British indie pop bands Felt, Denim and Go-Kart Mozart. He has never used his surname in credits or press for his work.

Electric guitar electrified guitar; fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound.

Additional personnel
Mayo Thompson American singer

Mayo Thompson is an American musician and visual artist best known as the leader of the avant-garde rock band Red Crayola (Krayola).

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References

  1. AllMusic review
  2. Rom, Ron (1987), "Felt: Poem of the River", Sounds