''Sins of Our Fathers'' is the second album by the American musician

Andy Prieboy Andy Prieboy (born April 17, 1955) is an American musician, songwriter, and author. He was lead singer of the band Wall of Voodoo from 1983 to 1988. He went on to record solo albums, musicals and wrote a novel. Life and career Prieboy was born ...

, released in 1995. The album cover graphic is by Josh Agle and is based on ''Hougoumont'' by

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. The cover art depicts the repelling of Jerome's noon assault at the

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. The album was recorded in a Los Angeles garage.

Critical reception

The ''

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'' wrote that "Prieboy writes clever songs—loading them up with cultural and literary references—and delivers them with a big, theatrical sound that crosses Queen with Tom Lehrer." ''

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'' listed the album as the fourth best of 1995.

Track listing

#"Sins of My Fathers" – 5:39 #"How Would I Know Love Now" – 5:53 #"Wine Red and TV Blue" – 4:32 #"All For Your Love Again" – 3:58 #"Psycho Ex" – 2:14 #"Cannot Not" – 5:06 #"When the Heart Awakes" – 3:38 #"Robbing Her Own Room" – 4:34 #"When This Dream Is Over" – 4:26 #"Who Do You Think We're Coming For" – 5:08 #"You Don't Owe Me Anything" – 4:54 #"Build a Better Garden" – 5:25 #"Daddy Buy Baby a Boobjob" – 1:34

Personnel

Chad Fischer Chad Fischer is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer from Santa Monica, California, also known as the frontman of the band Lazlo Bane. Early years Chad Fischer's early work was being a drummer for the ban ...

- drums, percussion, vocals

References

1995 albums Andy Prieboy albums {{1990s-rock-album-stub