Deaf (album)

Deaf
Studio album by You've Got Foetus on Your Breath
Released	September 1981
Recorded	1981
Studio	Lavender Sound, London, England
Genre	Experimental
Length	46:38
Label	Self Immolation
Producer	J. G. Thirlwell
J. G. Thirlwell chronology
Deaf (1981) Custom Built for Capitalism (1982)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
Pitchfork Media	(6.3/10)[3]

Deaf is the first album by J. G. Thirlwell's You've Got Foetus on Your Breath, released in 1981 on Thirlwell's own Self Immolation Records label.[4][5] Deaf, along with its follow-up Ache, was recorded with an 8-track recorder.[4]

Both releases were limited editions: only 2,000 copies of the LP and 4,000 copies of the CD were produced. The Deaf LP is Self Immolation #WOMB OYBL 1. The CD re-release is Ectopic Ents #ECT ENTS 012.

Thirsty Ear reissued the album as a CD in 1997 in the US.[6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by J. G. Thirlwell

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"New York or Bust"	2:00
2.	"Is That a Line?"	7:09
3.	"Why Can't It Happen to Me?"	3:14
4.	"I Am Surrounded by Incompetence"	4:52
5.	"What Have You Been Doing?"	5:32

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Today I Started Slogging Again"	5:48
2.	"Harold MacMillan"	3:35
3.	"Thank Heaven for Push Button Phones"	4:26
4.	"Flashback"	3:37
5.	"Negative Energy"	6:08

The final track on the CD seems to approximate a locked groove, with the same few seconds of music repeated for the final 10 minutes.

Personnel

• Harlan Cockburn – engineering
• J. G. Thirlwell (as You've Got Foetus On Your Breath) – instruments, production, illustrations

References

1. Hinds, Andy. "Deaf". Allmusic. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
2. Larkin, Colin (27 May 2011). "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". Omnibus Press – via Google Books.
3. Schreiber, Ryan. "You've Got Foetus On Your Breath: Deaf". Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on 23 December 2001. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
4. Guides (Firm), Rough (3 August 2003). "The Rough Guide to Rock". Rough Guides – via Google Books.
5. "Foetus". Trouser Press. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
6. MTV News Staff. "New Flash: Foetus Re-releases First Two Albums". MTV News.^[dead link‍]

External links

• Deaf at Discogs (list of releases)