Worldbroken

Worldbroken
Live album by
Saccharine Trust
Released1985
RecordedJune 9, 1985 at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California
GenrePost-hardcore
Length41:45
LabelSST (046)
ProducerJoe Carducci, Saccharine Trust
Saccharine Trust chronology
Surviving You, Always
(1984) 		Worldbroken
(1985) 		We Became Snakes
(1986)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic[1]

Worldbroken is a live album by post-hardcore band Saccharine Trust, released in 1985 through SST. The album was recorded live and completely improvised.[2] Mike Watt of Minutemen stepped in to play bass for the 1985 show.[2]

Worldbroken received critical praise[3] and was an influence on Unknown Instructors' first album The Way Things Work[4] Double bassist Damon Smith, who appeared on the Grizzly Man soundtrack,[5] has credited the album with altering his views on punk rock, jazz, and free-form jamming.[6]

Reception

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Byron Coley said, "this LP takes the show's three or four long, twisting pieces and breaks them up into a piker's dozen of shorter but no less twisting 'songs'. The basic sound is of four tuxedoed gents bravely fighting the incessant urge-to-riff that rattles around in the subconscious of most electro-musicians."[7] Andrea Enthal at Spin said "guitars screech in sinewy saws like an 80s answer to the saxophone while Jack Brewer recites latter-day beatnikisms in a voice that sounds, at times, like the cartoon character Top Cat's sidekick, Choo Choo."[8]

Track listing

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Side one
No.TitleLength
1."The Worm's Quest"3:35
2."Just Think"1:35
3."Merciful Mother"2:17
4."Estuary"2:47
5."Hail Our Web"0:43
6."In This Sandbox"5:20
7."II Samuel Chapter 4"4:56
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."The Testimony"3:47
2."Words Left Unspoken"5:14
3."Fred Presented Himself to Joseph"4:08
4."On the Verge of Finding"3:03
5."No Compromise Here"4:45

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Dougan, John. "World Broken". Allmusic. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
  2. ^ a b Robbins, Ira; Sprague, David. "SACCHARINE TRUST/JACK BREWER BAND". Trouser Press. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
  3. ^ Spurrier, Jeff (October 5, 1986). "Saccharine Trust's Back-Alley Visions". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  4. ^ Huddle, Mark (September 7, 2007). "Interview: Joe Baiza and Dan McGuire of Unknown Instructors". Verbicide Magazine. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  5. ^ "Damon Smith ( US )". No Idea Festival. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  6. ^ Farrar, Justin (April 26, 2006). "Pagan Icons' Second Round". East Bay Express. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
  7. ^ Byron Coley (March 1986). "Spins". Spin. No. 11. p. 31.
  8. ^ Andrea Enthal (April 1986). "Underground". Spin. No. 12. p. 47.
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