Steve Kilbey - The Slow Crack (1987)

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The Slow Crack finds Kilbey tapping into his warped pop sensibility and -- with an arsenal of guitars, synths, drum machine, and even some horns here and there -- creating perhaps the most upbeat record of his career. The hallucinatory lyrics and psychedelic feel remain, of course.

Track listing:
1. Transaction
2. Fireman
3. Woman with Reason
4. A Favourite Pack of Lies
5. Something That Means Something
6. Consider Yourself Conquered
7. Like a Ghost
8. Ariel Sings
9. A Minute Without You
10. Surrealist Woman Blues
11. Song of Solomon
12. Starling St.

Each day is a terrible discovery

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