Codename: Dustsucker
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| Studio album by Bark Psychosis | ||||
| Released | 2004 | |||
| Genre | Post-rock | |||
| Length | 50:18 | |||
| Label | Fire Records | |||
| Producer | Graham Sutton | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.7/10)[2] |
///Codename: Dustsucker is an album by the post-rock band Bark Psychosis, released in 2004 on Fire Records. It was recorded at DustSucker Sound, a private studio run by Graham Sutton in east London, between 1999 and 2004. The album notably features the contributions of Lee Harris, the drummer and percussionist of early post-rock purveyors Talk Talk.
In the album the band continues to use conventional rock instruments in songs that are structured unconventionally, as they did in their earlier releases. Rather than the familiar alternation of verse and chorus, the songs mostly develop as a succession of related sections. "400 Winters" has an intro, a verse, a long chorus-like section, then the rhythm and arrangement change for a long coda section, which fades to be replaced by a chord sequence on piano and what appears to be a distorted answerphone message. "Shapeshifting" follows a similar structure. "Burning the City" is based around a three bar pattern, in contrast to rock's usual 4, 8 or 12 bar structures.
"400 Winters", along with remixes of three of the album's other tracks, was released as an EP in 2005.
Track listing
All tracks written by Bark Psychosis.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "From What Is Said to When It's Read" | 5:27 |
| 2. | "The Black Meat" | 6:50 |
| 3. | "Miss Abuse" | 6:11 |
| 4. | "400 Winters" | 5:48 |
| 5. | "Dr. Innocuous/Ketamoid" | 1:04 |
| 6. | "Burning the City" | 5:11 |
| 7. | "Inqb8tr" | 8:00 |
| 8. | "Shapeshifting" | 6:03 |
| 9. | "Rose" | 5:50 |
Personnel
Musicians
- Graham Sutton – vocal (i,ii,iii,vi,vii), guitar, bass guitar, piano, keys, melodica, e-mu
- Lee Harris – drums, percussion
- Colin Bradley – guitar
- Pete Beresford – vibraphone
- Rachel Dreyer – piano, vocal (viii)
- T.J. Mackenzie – trumpet
- Anja Buechele – vocal (iv, vi)
- Chicken – gonk vocal
- Neil Aldridge – indicators
- Shaun Hyder – sindhi tamboura
- David Panos – bass guitar
- Alice Kemp – bowed guitar
- Silke Roch – vocal (ix)
- Mark Simnett – found drums
- Del Crabtree – found trumpet
Technical
- Engineered and produced by Graham Sutton
- Mastered by Noel Summerville and Graham Sutton