Worldbroken

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Worldbroken
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Live album by
Saccharine Trust
Released1985
RecordedJune 9, 1985 at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California
Genre Post-hardcore
Length41:45
Label SST (046)
Producer Joe Carducci, Saccharine Trust
Saccharine Trust chronology
Surviving You, Always
(1984)		Worldbroken
(1985)		 We Became Snakes
(1986)
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Worldbroken is a live album by post-hardcore band Saccharine Trust, released in 1985 through SST. The album was recorded live and completely improvised. [2] Mike Watt of Minutemen stepped in to play bass for the 1985 show. [2]

Contents

Worldbroken received critical praise [3] and was an influence on Unknown Instructors' first album The Way Things Work [4] Double bassist Damon Smith, who appeared on the Grizzly Man soundtrack, [5] has credited the album with altering his views on punk rock, jazz, and free-form jamming. [6]

Reception

Byron Coley said, "this LP takes the show's three or four long, twisting pieces and breaks them up into a piker's dozen of shorter but no less twisting 'songs'. The basic sound is of four tuxedoed gents bravely fighting the incessant urge-to-riff that rattles around in the subconscious of most electro-musicians." [7] Andrea Enthal at Spin said "guitars screech in sinewy saws like an 80s answer to the saxophone while Jack Brewer recites latter-day beatnikisms in a voice that sounds, at times, like the cartoon character Top Cat's sidekick, Choo Choo." [8]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."The Worm's Quest"3:35
2."Just Think"1:35
3."Merciful Mother"2:17
4."Estuary"2:47
5."Hail Our Web"0:43
6."In This Sandbox"5:20
7."II Samuel Chapter 4"4:56
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."The Testimony"3:47
2."Words Left Unspoken"5:14
3."Fred Presented Himself to Joseph"4:08
4."On the Verge of Finding"3:03
5."No Compromise Here"4:45

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Dougan, John. "World Broken". Allmusic. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
  2. 1 2 Robbins, Ira; Sprague, David. "SACCHARINE TRUST/JACK BREWER BAND". Trouser Press . Retrieved October 16, 2019.
  3. ↑ Spurrier, Jeff (October 5, 1986). "Saccharine Trust's Back-Alley Visions". The Los Angeles Times . Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  4. ↑ Huddle, Mark (September 7, 2007). "Interview: Joe Baiza and Dan McGuire of Unknown Instructors". Verbicide Magazine. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Damon Smith ( US )". No Idea Festival. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  6. ↑ Farrar, Justin (April 26, 2006). "Pagan Icons' Second Round". East Bay Express . Retrieved October 12, 2019.
  7. ↑ Byron Coley (March 1986). "Spins". Spin . No. 11. p. 31.
  8. ↑ Andrea Enthal (April 1986). "Underground". Spin . No. 12. p. 47.
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