A Tricky Business

by Attrition

Overview

Attrition's records have aged better than most of their goth/industrial dance contemporaries. Martin Bowes' intricate sense of sound design and rhythm programming, and partner Ashley Niblock's merging of spoken word and mock operatics, have engendered a less genre-defined feel in the band. 1991's A TRICKY BUSINESS is a later addition to the Attrition catalog. Here, Bowes is more interested in dirty autobahns than dirty, mascara-smudged faces. Tracks such as the docudrama "Thin Red Line" and "Scenario" combine Kraftwerk-like pulses and late '80s Eurobeat (think A Split Second, Trisomie 21), with Bowes' yarns that conjure decadent film noir and rainswept exteriors. The duo's sinister edge and crafty exploitation of layered bass sequencers makes A TRICKY BUSINESS one of their finer efforts.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/31/2009
Label:	Two Gods Recording / 2 Gods / Gonzo Distribution Ltd. / United States Of Distribution
UPC:	0604388728121
Rank:	149696

Tracks

1. Thin Red Line
2. Right Hand Man
3. Scenario
4. First Love
5. A Girl Called Harmony
6. The Rising Tide: Recollection/The Tide Is Rising
7. Legitimate Son
8. Hush
9. Something in My Eye
10. You Face, My Gift
11. Under the Bridge
12. Resurrection (Reprise)
13. Something in My Eye 12"

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Attrition   Primary Artist
Julia Walter   Vocals
Ady Coles   MIDI Sax
Martin Bowes   Keyboards,Vocals,Electronics

Technical Credits

Mark Beswick   Engineer,Mixing
Ashley Niblock   Composer
Martin Bowes   Producer,Composer