Unfinished Business (Penal Colony album)

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Unfinished Business
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 23, 2003 (2003-05-23)
Genre Electro-industrial
Length75:57
Label DSBP
Producer Dee Madden
Penal Colony chronology
Multicoloured Shades
(1995)
Unfinished Business
(2003)

Unfinished Business is the second studio album by Penal Colony, released on May 12, 2003 by DSBP. [1] [2]

Contents

Reception

Ryan Speck of Industrial Nation praised Unfinished Business for its hooks and said the album "takes those same Penal Colony punk undertones, strips them of their dark grime, and instead creates a paranoid electronic science fiction masterpiece, dragging you for 12 tracks (plus 2 remixes) through the gutters and alleyways of D Madden's brain." [3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dee Madden, except "Clones (We're All)" by David Carron.

No.TitleLength
1."Hypothalamus Now!"6:01
2."Falling Down the Stairs"4:30
3."Don't Let Them Forget to Tag Your Symptom"4:45
4."Thee Unbearable Lightness Ov..."5:06
5."Hazing (The Underlings With Your Broken Stickpin)"4:40
6."Unfinished Business"5:24
7."Scion"3:38
8."In Between 5 and 14"4:55
9."The Hand of John Kemble"6:53
10."Host Meets the Cell"4:19
11."21 Robot Man"6:58
12."Clones (We're All)"3:39
13."Falling Down The Stairs" (Scotch & Water Remix)7:59
14."Unfinished Business" (Strike Down Remix)7:08

Personnel

Adapted from the Unfinished Business liner notes. [4]

Penal Colony

Additional performers

Production and design

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States2003DSBP CD 1056

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References

  1. "Penal Colony: Unfinished Business > Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  2. Thompson, David (November 1, 2000). Alternative Rock: Third Ear - The Essential Listening Companion. Hal Leonard LLC. p. 751. ISBN   9780879306076 . Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  3. Speck, Ryan (2003). "Penal Colony: Unfinished Business". Industrial Nation. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  4. Unfinished Business (booklet). Penal Colony. Albuquerque, New Mexico: DSBP. 2003.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)