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Screaming Trees - A Fracture In Time [NTVLP 29 UK 1987 24-Bit FLAC]

The original Screaming Trees came from Sheffield in South Yorkshire, this is an important distinction which I needed to get right. I wouldn't want to upset anybody from any other areas of this proud county. The original Screaming Trees also have nothing to do with that other hairy bunch from the Pacific North West who borrowed their name a few years later.

Two years before Renegade Soundwave and Meat Beat Manifesto mixed samples and cut-ups with heavy duty beats to great acclaim, Sean Maloney and Mark Swancott released their debut album with a bit of help from Alan Fish and former ABC sax-playing fringe, Stephen Singleton. These indie-funk-industrial-dance pieces are interlaced with pompous orchestral strings, pop & hip-hop samples, film soundtracks, throbbing bass lines, a grand piano, a horn section, James Brown, Beastie Boys, Madonna, Bowie, ACR, John Barry, Ealing comedies, Bogart and Kraftwerk. 

A Fracture In Time is a remarkable album and an enjoyable listen from beginning to end. One day, I may even find the time to clean up and re-rip all those singles from the original Screaming Trees.

Take them to the trees....

A1 Fractured Time 1

A2 Asylum

A3 Understand

A4 Balance

A5 Coliseum

B1 Gurued Up

B2 Fractured Time 2

B3 The Big Hitter

B4 M1L3S

B5 Don't B Afraid

B6 Fractured Time 3