R&B Transmogrification

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R&B Transmogrification
Quasi-RBTransmogrification.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 25, 1997
Length47:04
Label Up Records [1]
Producer Charlie Campbell & Quasi
Quasi chronology
Early Recordings
(1996)
R&B Transmogrification
(1997)
Featuring "Birds"
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Pitchfork Media 7.8/10 [3]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]

R&B Transmogrification is the second studio album by the American indie band Quasi. [5] [6] It was released on March 25, 1997, on Up Records.

Contents

Critical reception

Record Collector wrote that the album is "clever from the get-go; between their heavily distorted rocksichord (a kind of electronic keyboard made to approximate the sound of a harpsichord) and lyricism that tells of the worst kind of heartbreak, there’s a sort of commercial viability without selling the soul of these songs." [4] Trouser Press thought that "the imaginative music includes everything commercial pop lacks: the pioneering spirit navigating a sinking ship, violations of civilized taste and neurotic condemnations." [7]

Track listing

All tracks by Sam Coomes except "Bird's Eye View" by Janet Weiss and Coomes.

  1. "Ghost Dreaming" – 3:24
  2. "Ballad of Mechanical Man" – 3:13
  3. "In the First Place" – 4:02
  4. "Bird's Eye View" – 3:23
  5. "Two-Faced" – 2:53
  6. "Ghost vs. Vampire" – 3:26
  7. "R&B Transmogrification" – 2:29
  8. "When I'm Dead" – 2:20
  9. "Sugar" – 5:27
  10. "My Coffin" – 3:59
  11. "Mama, Papa, Baby" – 2:59
  12. "Chocolate Rabbit" – 3:24
  13. "Iron Worm" – 3:18
  14. "Clouds" – 2:52

Personnel

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