''The Burden of Mules'' is the debut studio album by English
post-punk
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band
The Wolfgang Press
The Wolfgang Press was an English post-punk band, active from 1983 to 1995, recording for the 4AD label. The core of the band was Michael Allen (vocals, bass), Mark Cox (keyboards), and Andrew Gray (guitar).
The group is best known for its 1 ...
. It was released on 1 August 1983, through record label
4AD.
Track listing
Critical reception
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's review was negative, calling the album "impenetrable" and some tracks "so morose and vehement as to verge on self-parody".
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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 it "dark and cacophonous; an angry, intense slab of post-punk gloom that is best left to its own (de)vices."
Personnel
; The Wolfgang Press
* Andrew Gray – guitar
(tracks A1, A4 and B2), percussion
(tracks A1 and B2), drums
(tracks A3 and B1), sleeve photography
* David Steiner – drums
(track B1)
* Michael Allen – drums
(tracks A1 and B1), percussion
(tracks A1, A2, A4–A6 and B2), bass guitar
(tracks A2–A6, B2 and B3), vocals
(tracks A2–A5 and B1–B3), synthesizer
(tracks A2 and A5), piano
(tracks A6, B2 and B3), organ
(track A6), drum loops
(track B2), cymbal and saxophone
(track B3),
production
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* Mark Cox – synthesizer
(tracks A2 and A4–B3), percussion
(tracks A1, A2, A4–A6), clarinet
(tracks A2, A5 and B3), "noises"
(tracks A3, B1 and B2), pixiephone and chimes
(tracks A2 and A4), piano
(tracks A2 and A5), organ
(tracks A1 and B1), "scratches" and whistling
(track A6), bass guitar
(track A3), production
* Richard Thomas – drums
(tracks A2, A4–A6 and B3), flute and piano
(track B3)
; Technical
* John Madden –
engineering
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, production
References
External links
*
''The Burden of Mules'' at the official 4AD Records website
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1983 debut albums
The Wolfgang Press albums