''San Antorium'' was

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's fourth album, released in 1991 in

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on Nightshift Records. The LP was recorded at Tower Studios in

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, Scotland. Personnel changes prior to the album's recording involved the near-simultaneous departures of guitarist Hamish McIntosh and drummer Grant McDowall, who were replaced by Hugh Duggie and Greg Orr, respectively. Orr's role was somewhat limited as several of the tracks employed drum programming and/or drum loops.

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reissued much of the band's entire back catalogue on CD in 2006, and ''San Antorium'' was released with five bonus tracks taken from the band's "Black Sessions"

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album.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Lowlife # "Jaw" – 3:31 # "Inside In" – 5:09 # "My Mothers Fatherly Father" – 4:08 # "Big Fat Funky Whale" – 3:51 # "Good As It Gets" – 5:05 # "Suddenly Violently Random" – 4:02 # "June Wilson" – 4:52 # "Give Up Giving Up" – 4:15 # "Bathe" – 4:06 # "As Old As New" – 4:17 Bonus Tracks on 2006 CD Reissue: # "Missing the Kick" – 3:48 # "Bittersweet" – 3:52 # "Forever Filthy" – 3:20 # "Neverending Shroud" – 3:30 # "We the Cheated" – 3:23

Personnel

;Lowlife *Craig Lorentson -

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

*Hugh Duggie -

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

Will Heggie Will Heggie is a Scottish musician. He co-founded Cocteau Twins in 1979 with Robin Guthrie, and served as the bassist for them until 1983. Immediately after departing Cocteau Twins, he helped form Lowlife A low-life (or lowlife) is a term ...

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

*Greg Orr McDowall -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

;Additional musicians *Calum MacLean - guitars, three-hand bass, chorus guitar, programming *Steven Nelson - additional drum programming *Martin Fleming - drum loops, Burst snare drum loops *Linda Jackson -

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*Joyce Monaghen - backing vocals *Jacqueline Balloch - backing vocals

References

{{Authority control Lowlife (band) albums 1991 albums