- Artist
- Display Artist
- Severed Heads
- ReleaseProduct
- Clean (Deluxe Version)
- Label
- Dark Entries Records
- Catalogue Number
- DE-265
- Release Date
- 14 April 1981
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Our first release of 2020 is a deluxe 2xLP reissue of Severed Heads’ debut 1981 album ‘Clean’. One of the longest surviving bands to emerge from the Australian post-punk independent music scene, they began in Sydney in 1979. Severed Heads is basically a nom- de-plum for Tom Ellard, who incorporates elements of ‘industrial’ noise-generation, tape cutting & looping and electronic sound synthesis. As the project developed song-structures and vocals were employed in a more-or-less recognizable mutant electro pop style.
‘Clean’ was amongst the first vinyl releases under the Dogfood Productions banner of Terse Tapes, previously a cassette-only label. For this records Tom used an array of synthesizers (Kawai 100F, Casiotone, Roland CR78+SH1+CSQ100), sequencers, tapes and occasional guitar and violin played by Garry Bradbury. Severed Heads have a language of their own, music that juxtaposes all sorts of noise, in all sorts of ways so that a structure evolves, (fragmented) melody and rhythm being almost a by-product. As one reviewer said in 1981, “It is an ugly album that you simply cannot ignore, it thuds and screeches and makes you stare just to wonder what kind of people would procure such an album.” For this deluxe reissue we’ve included a bonus disc featuring 13 songs, 5 of which have never been released before, culled from live performances, the ‘Side 3’ cassette and a ‘Clean’ demo tape that only surfaced last year, plus "Food City" missing from previous reissues.
All songs have been remastered by Tom Ellard, with vinyl EQ and lacquer cutting by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Each copy is housed in a gatefold jacket featuring black and white xeroxed artwork from the first vinyl edition. Inside the gatefold are liner notes by Tom Ellard plus photos and press clippings from the period. “‘Clean’ is original and powerful and everybody should listen to it at least once, just so they know where the boundaries lie.” Ashley Crawford, Virgin Press 1981. 25% of proceeds will be donated to the Australian Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities, that offers specific direct support to some of those communities with critical costs to cover expenses.
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Food City
4:45
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Our Own Home
2:07
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Charivari
2:36
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Nightsong
7:04
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Car Advertisment
2:49
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Love
2:06
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Dont Saxophone
3:13
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Book
4:04
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Tiny Fingers
3:17
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Heavily Tatooed Men + Women
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Track List
Tracklist:
Food City
On Own Home
Charivari
Nightsong
Car Advertisment
Love
Dont Saxophone
Book
Tiny Fingers
Heavily Tatooed Men + Women
Violins And Moonlight
Stomach
You Will
Turtledove
Flower
Clean Loops
Floopness
Ladies + Gents Digital
Somehow Pain
Subjective
Always Randy
Unbreakable
Traumat
Opera
Siren
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- Artist
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- ReleaseProduct
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- Label
- Futurismo
- Catalogue Number
- FTRSMO42
- Release Date
- 13 January 2023
- LP (special)
- CD
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- Severed Heads
- ReleaseProduct
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- Label
- Medical Records
- Catalogue Number
- MR-087
- Release Date
- 8 December 2020
- LP
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- ReleaseProduct
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- Label
- Dark Entries Records
- Catalogue Number
- DE-180
- Release Date
- 15 September 2017
- 12”
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- ReleaseProduct
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- Catalogue Number
- MR-069
- Release Date
- 3 June 2016
- LP
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- Label
- Optimo Trax
- Catalogue Number
- OT015
- Release Date
- 25 May 2015
- EP
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- Severed Heads
- ReleaseProduct
- Dead Eyes Opened
- Label
- Dark Entries Records
- Catalogue Number
- DE-070
- Release Date
- 12 July 2014
- EP
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- ReleaseProduct
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- Label
- Dark Entries Records
- Catalogue Number
- DE-317
- Release Date
- 5 April 2024
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- ReleaseProduct
- Cloud Sight Fade
- Label
- Dark Entries Records
- Catalogue Number
- DE-298
- Release Date
- 8 March 2024
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- ReleaseProduct
- 1982
- Label
- Dark Entries Records
- Catalogue Number
- DE-312
- Release Date
- 1 March 2024
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- topographies
- ReleaseProduct
- Interior Spring
- Label
- Dark Entries Records
- Catalogue Number
- DE-319
- Release Date
- 2 February 2024
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- ReleaseProduct
- Stand, Scatter
- Label
- Dark Entries Records
- Catalogue Number
- DE-309
- Release Date
- 8 December 2023
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- ReleaseProduct
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- Label
- Dark Entries Records
- Catalogue Number
- DE-318
- Release Date
- 17 November 2023
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- ReleaseProduct
- Music From Hell
- Label
- Dark Entries Records
- Catalogue Number
- DE-295
- Release Date
- 31 October 2023
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- ReleaseProduct
- Newest Romantic
- Label
- Dark Entries Records
- Catalogue Number
- DED-02
- Release Date
- 23 October 2023
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