Red Exposure

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Red Exposure
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Studio album by Chrome
Released April 5, 1980
Genre Experimental rock
Length34:37
Label Beggars Banquet
Producer Damon Edge
Chrome chronology
Read Only Memory
(1979)		Red Exposure
(1980)		 Blood on the Moon
(1981)
Professional ratings
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Red Exposure is the fourth studio album by American experimental rock band Chrome. It was released on April 5, 1980 by Beggars Banquet Records.

Experimental rock is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre. Artists aim to liberate and innovate, with some of the genre's distinguishing characteristics being improvisational performances, avant-garde influences, odd instrumentation, opaque lyrics, unorthodox structures and rhythms, and an underlying rejection of commercial aspirations.

Chrome (band) American band

Chrome is an American rock band founded in San Francisco in 1975 by musician Damon Edge and associated with the 1970s post-punk movement. The group's coarse sound brought together science-fiction themes, tape experimentation, and electronic noise with distorted acid rock guitar, blending elements of punk, psychedelia, and industrial music.

Beggars Banquet is a British independent record label that began as a chain of record shops owned by Martin Mills and Nick Austin, and is part of the Beggars Group of labels.

Contents

Track listing

All music composed by Chrome (Helios Creed, Damon Edge).

Helios Creed American musician

Helios Creed is an American guitarist, singer and bandleader. He first came to prominence in the mid-1970s with the San Francisco band Chrome. The band Chrome broke up in the mid-1980s when founding member Damon Edge moved to Paris. Helios then recruited some local hard rock musicians and launched a solo career.

Damon Edge American singer

Damon Edge was the stage name of American musician Thomas Wisse. He was a founding member of the band Chrome, and he also recorded as a solo artist.

Side A
No.TitleLyricsLead vocalsLength
1."New Age"EdgeEdge2:56
2."Rm. 101"  1:56
3."Eyes on Mars"Creed, EdgeCreed3:32
4."Jonestown"Creed, EdgeEdge2:21
5."Animal"EdgeEdge2:49
6."Static Gravity"Creed, EdgeCreed, Edge3:08
Side B
No.TitleLyricsLead vocalsLength
1."Eyes in the Center"EdgeEdge4:03
2."Electric Chair"Creed, EdgeCreed4:07
3."Night of the Earth"Creed, EdgeCreed, Edge4:12
4."Isolation"EdgeEdge4:33

Personnel

Chrome
Guitar synthesizer

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Bowed guitar

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References

  1. ↑ Raggett, Ned. "Red Exposure – Chrome : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards : AllMusic". AllMusic . AllRovi . Retrieved April 24, 2013.
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