Potential (album)

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Potential
Scar Tissue - Potential.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 10, 2008 (2008-10-10)
Genre Electro-industrial
Length52:31
Scar Tissue chronology
Form/Alkaline
(2008)
Potential
(2008)
Obscurity
(2010)

Potential is the fourth studio album by Scar Tissue, released independently on October 10, 2008. [1] It was released after a ten-year hiatus the band went on after the release of their 1998 remix album Rebuild . [2] [3]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Philip Caldwell and Steve Watkins.

No.TitleLength
1."Subsyst"4:00
2."Gazebo"2:10
3."Innervoices"4:15
4."Nukular Welfare"3:39
5."Bloop"3:01
6."Strongman"2:52
7."Sadofilter"3:15
8."Isneydai Ornopai"3:16
9."Snippet"3:21
10."Asbstract Balcony"4:50
11."Airfare"2:28
12."Config"3:32
13."The Garden"4:22
14."Antipode"4:21
15."Brightwater"3:09

Personnel

Adapted from the Potential liner notes. [4]

Scar Tissue

Additional performers

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States2008self-released DL
2009 CD

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References

  1. "Scar Tissue". Allmusic. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  2. "Scar Tissue: Rebuild > Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved July 26, 2020.
  3. Alexander, Kim Ann (April 18, 1999). "A Live IRC chat with Scar Tissue". Last Sigh Magazine. Archived from the original on July 1, 2012. Retrieved July 26, 2020.
  4. Potential (digital). Scar Tissue. 2008.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)