Secret Weapon Revealed at Last

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Secret Weapon Revealed at Last, or Full Moon Empty Sportsbag
Secret weapon revealed at last.jpg
Studio album by
Released2003
RecordedFebruary 2, 2000 – February 5, 2003
Genre Rock
Length54:16(CD)
Label In the Red [1]
Producer The Rebel, Amir Shoat
Country Teasers chronology
Science Hat Artistic Cube Moral Nosebleed Empire
(2002)
Secret Weapon Revealed at Last, or Full Moon Empty Sportsbag
(2003)
Live Album
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Pitchfork Media 3.1/10 [3]

Secret Weapon Revealed at Last is the fourth studio album by Country Teasers.

Contents

Finding it increasingly difficult for the entire band to congregate to perform or record, the album contains several older songs written between 1997 and 1998 and recorded during the winter of 2002. The liner notes make mention that "Some members of the group were not present at the recordings".

Critical reception

The Times wrote that "the Country Teasers' determined pursuit of needling, off-the-cuff unpleasantness eventually wheedles the listener, against their will, into something approaching a state of grace". [4] Chuck Eddy, in an article on "rant rock" for Spin , wrote admiringly that the album is a "belligerent pile of four-track crank catcalls". [5]

Track listing

All songs written by Ben Wallers .
  1. "Success" – 3:17
  2. "Hairy Wine 2" – 3:44
  3. "Young Mums Up for Sex" – 3:00
  4. "Deaths" – 4:38
  5. "TODTTL" – 3:15
  6. "Life Is a Rehearsal" – 4:22
  7. "Full Moon Empty Sportsbag" – 1:05
  8. "Boycott the Studio" – 3:07
  9. "Wizmo!" – 4:01
  10. "Please Stop Fucking Each Other" – 4:13
  11. "Man v Cock" – 3:35
  12. "Sandy" – 6:48
  13. "EHWPSA" – 9:11

Personnel

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References

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  3. "Secret Weapon Revealed at Last". Pitchfork. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  4. Lee, Stewart. "The Country Teasers: Secret Weapon Revealed at Last" via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  5. LLC, SPIN Media (May 15, 2011). "Essentials". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC via Google Books.