The Old Album, by Pete Um

The Old Album

by Pete Um

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1.	The Way Of Um 01:24	info	buy track
2.	Norwegian Blues 03:30	info	buy track
3.	Back To The Present 01:26	info	buy track
4.	Africa Is A Fridge 01:38	info	buy track
5.	I Can't Take Care Of Myself 01:50	info	buy track
6.	Human Records Can't Be Trusted 01:10	info	buy track
7.	Pain Is Circular 01:56	info	buy track
8.	Buried Alive 02:28	info	buy track
9.	I Can Tear It All Apart 01:16	info	buy track
10.	Tick Bite Fever 01:43	info	buy track
11.	Lights In The Night 01:58	info	buy track
12.	On Understanding 01:06	info	buy track
13.	Pathological Abstention 01:16	info	buy track
14.	The Guru Let Me Down 03:01	info	buy track
15.	You Can't Stop Progress 01:22	info	buy track
16.	You Give Me No Attention 01:12	info	buy track
17.	The Social Astronaut 04:00	info	buy track
18.	Here's Your Evil, Missus 01:24	info	buy track
19.	Painting Swimming Pools 02:24	info	buy track
20.	Give Me Back My Tears 01:00	info	buy track
21.	Does Anybody Want To Buy A Soul? 02:04	info	buy track
22.	Look At Me 03:30	info	buy track
23.	THEM 00:44	info	buy track
24.	Was There Ever A Jesus Of Chickens? 02:17	info	buy track
25.	U Can! 01:08	info	buy track
26.	Still Unique In 2003 00:18	info	buy track

about

This was released on CD-R in September 2003 and followed The New Album. Eventually The New Album got a vinyl rerelease and I did want to do that with this but I'm not sure it warrants it so here we are. I've added the original manneredly inscrutable sleevenotes to each track.

Thanks to James Sutcliffe for help with artwork files.

credits

released September 1, 2003

Thanks to some dude called Cormac who worked at Arjuna and did some unbidden remastering of this album. I think he did a pretty good job.

license

about

Pete Um Cambridge, UK

"A master of the miniature electro-acoustic song-poem, a form he has more or less invented and crystallised himself, his work displays a sardonic wit combined with a healthy misanthropy, in marvellous micro-collages of voice, instruments, samples, and electronics."

-Ergo Phizmiz ... more