Fourth Drawer Down

Fourth Drawer Down

Infobox Album
Name = Fourth Drawer Down
Type = Compilation
Longtype =
Artist = The Associates


Released = October 1981
Recorded =
Genre = New Wave, Electronic music
Length =
Label = Beggars Banquet Records
Producer = Mike Hedges, Flood
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gjfpxqykld6e link]
Last album = The Affectionate Punch (1980)
This album = Fourth Drawer Down (1981)
Next album = Sulk (1982)

"Fourth Drawer Down" is the second album by Scottish New Wave group Associates released in 1981. It is a singles and b-sides compilation from all 6 singles they released that year on Situation 2 records. The album was reissued with 5 bonus tracks in 2005 by V2 Records.

Development and Style

Alan Rankine and Billy Mackenzie recorded 6 singles for Beggars Banquet imprint Situation 2 in 1981 at Playground Studios. These recordings would prove to be the most outworldly and avant-garde of the band's career. The angular production and post-punk trappings of The Affectionate Punch had been dropped in favour of vast dark electronic soundscapes. Everything from a typewriter as a back beat to coughs and sonar pings were used for musical effect. Mackenzie sung through a vacuum cleaner hose for the song Kitchen Person to obtain an intense compressed sound. Various drugs were consumed in the frenzied sessions which ended up in Rankine and Mackenzie's hospitalisation after accidentally snorting 5 grams of methamphetamine during the recording of the b-side Straw Towels.

Tracklisting

#White Car in Germany - 5.28
#A Girl Named Property - 4.56
#Kitchen Person - 4.53
#Q Quarters - 4.55
#Tell Me Easter's on Friday - 4.29
#The Associate - 5.00
#Message Oblique Speech - 5.35
#An Even Whiter Car - 4.45

These tracks appeared on the 2000 V2 reissue:

#Fearless (It Takes A Full Moon) - 3.37
#Point Si - 5.15
#Straw Towels - 5.16
#Kissed - 6.11
#Blue Soap - 3.52

Personnel

"The Associates":

*Billy Mackenzie - Vocals
*Alan Rankine - Guitars, Keyboards, Other Instruments
*Michael Dempsey - Bass
* John Murphy - Drums

"Other Personnel":

*Mike Hedges - Producer, Engineer
*Flood - Producer
*Antoine Giacomoni - Sleeve Photography


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