Singularity (Peter Hammill album)

Singularity (Peter Hammill album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Singularity
Type = Album
Artist = Peter Hammill



Released = Dec 2006
Recorded =
Genre = Art rock
Length =
Label = Fie!
Producer =
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0xftxqlrldfe link]
Last album = "Incoherence"
(2004)
This album = "Singularity"
(2006)
Next album =

"Singularity" is an album by Peter Hammill, released on his own Fie! Records label in December 2006.

The album was the first Hammill recorded after suffering a heart attack in 2003. Some of the songs ("Our Eyes Give It Shape", "Event Horizon") refer directly to his brush with death. Others address questions of mortality in related ways ("Meanwhile My Mother" is about his mother's decline, "Friday Afternoon" about the untimely death of his piano tuner).

Unlike most recent Hammill albums, "Singularity" is a completely solo effort, i.e. it was written, played and produced entirely by him. It has been hailed by some as one of his best albums since the 1980s [Mike Barnes, "Life Sentences". Wire, March 2007. pp. 34-41] .

The cover was again designed by Peter Hammill's long-time companion Paul Ridout. Using a photo by Dinu and playing with the term "Singularity" it shows Peter's face on the back cover a second time as a mirror-image.

Track listing

#"Our Eyes Give It Shape"
#"Event Horizon"
#"Famous Last Words"
#"Naked to the Flame"
#"Meanwhile My Mother"
#"Vainglorious Boy"
#"Of Wire, of Wood"
#"Friday Afternoon"
#"White Dot"

Notes

External links

* [http://www.sofasound.com/nldec2006.htm Peter Hammill's comments on the album]


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