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  • Audio CD (6 Sep 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Import Music Services
  • ASIN: B000001FW0
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 46,061 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Malaria 4:29Not Available
Listen  2. Everything That Rises Must Converge 4:03Not Available
Listen  3. Fish Below The Ice 4:24Not Available
Listen  4. This Big Hush 6:11Not Available
Listen  5. Faded Flowers 3:44Not Available
Listen  6. Nemesis 3:43Not Available
Listen  7. The Only Thing That Shines 4:23Not Available
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Listen  9. Hammerheads 4:17Not Available
Listen10. Coelocanth 4:13Not Available

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Shriekback managed to (somewhat) break out of the confines of the "underground" through the pitchblack plasma brews andcantilevered rhythms of OIL AND GOLD. Opening their sound beyond the sinister brittle funk and experimental electronic exercises of CARE and JAM SCIENCE, OIL AND GOLD vacillates between being a lumbering, multi-headed beast (the angular funk-rock of "Malaria", the circuit-driven stampede of "Nemesis") and a glimpse into the tiny creatures inhabiting the underbrush in the stereo field ("Faded Flowers", the ghostly "This Big Hush", the deep-space cadences of "Only Thing that Shines").
The backbone of Shriekback has always been BarryAndrews; the broad range of synthetics and various sundry devices he uses to flesh out the band's naked animal consistently fascinates. (Instrumentation labeled "jp8 hoover of Christ" and "deadly ratmorse" only serve to heighten the imagistic nature of the sounds they actually create.) This is not to minimise the equal contributions of guitarist Dave Allen,bassist Carl Marsh and rhythm maven Martyn Barker, who collectively bring Shriekback's galvanising rock-forms to life.

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Definitive Shriekback CD!, 27 Sep 2000
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Avoid the recent double CD from Shriekback. If you are looking for their best work, then opt for the marvellous Oil and Gold album instead.

Particularly recommended to fans of Michael Mann's film 'Manhunter', as the CD contain two tracks which Mann used in the movie. - 'Coelcanth' and 'The Big Hush'. Also, listen out for the great 'Faded Flowers' which Mann used in the film he produced call 'Band of the Hand'. Overall: Don't miss this classic album!

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of my all-time fave albums, 22 Jul 2008
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Some aspects of Shriekback's classic 'Oil and Gold' you might dismiss as 80s excess: the overcooked lyrics ('Big black nemesis / Parthenogenesis ...' from 'Nemesis'), the slap bass, the sweeping, lush synths, the hyper-soul backing vocals -- the whole creation obviously high on something or other.
But there's a huge amount of pure pleasure to be had from this. The upbeat tracks are brilliantly manic. There's obvious Talking Heads ('Remain in Light'-period) influence in the overlaying of vocal tracks (e.g. 'Hammerheads'), the combining of tom-toms with syndrums, and the wailing, soaring guitars à la Adrian Belew. The slow numbers are ethereally beautiful. (Listen out for synths by Hans Zimmer, now famous for his film scores e.g. 'Gladiator'.) Production is excellent: there's a sense of dark, sinister space around the music. But what really keeps me coming back to this CD is the melodic invention: it's just a great series of brilliantly executed tunes. And even the lyrics can be apt and true in their own crazed way:
We get it right sometimes
We shine a light sometimes
We see the fish below the ice sometimes.
(from 'Fish below the Ice')
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