''Gilt'' is an album by
Machines of Loving Grace, released in 1995.
Unlike past albums, guitars play a far greater role in the sound of this release.
The cover image was based upon a photograph taken by Robert Wiles in 1947 of
Evelyn McHale
Evelyn Francis McHale (September 20, 1923 – May 1, 1947) was an American bookkeeper who died by suicide by jumping from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. A photograph taken four minutes after her death by photograph ...
, who had leapt to her death from the observation deck of the
Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931. Its name is derived from "Empire State", the nickname of the st ...
.
Critical reception
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Trouser Press
''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to ...
'' called ''Gilt'' "a garish noise-powered album less tiresomely dependent on keyboards than the first two."
AllMusic
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wrote that "great production helps the rhythm hit you right in the chest, and what ''Gilt'' lacks in song variety, it makes up for in consistency of quality."
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Track listing
All tracks by Machines of Loving Grace
# "Richest Junkie Still Alive" – 3:36
# "Kiss Destroyer" – 3:13
# "Suicide King" – 4:04
# "Animal Mass" – 4:32
# "The Soft Collision" – 4:50
# "Solar Temple" – 3:46
# "Tryst" – 3:24
# "Casual Users" – 4:27
# "Twofold Godhead" – 3:33
# "Last" – 3:46
# "Serpico" – 3:45
References
1995 albums
Machines of Loving Grace albums
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