''Trapdoor Fucking Exit'' is the third
studio album
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by
The Dead C
The Dead C are a New Zealand based music and art trio made up of members Bruce Russell, Michael Morley and Robbie Yeats. Russell plays electric guitar, Morley sings and plays electric guitar or laptop, and Yeats plays drums. They have been ...
, released in 1990 through Precious Metal.
Legacy
In 1998, ''
The Wire'' included ''Trapdoor Fucking Exit'' in their list of "100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)". The staff described the album as "the sound of three newly freed New Zealanders wrestling with the implications of punk-primitive aesthetics in the wake of
US/
Euro free jazz ground leveling. Two broken guitars and a rapid-firing drummer, playing lead, singlehandedly redefined the concept of
garage punk without any considerations of melody, rhythm or fidelity."
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from ''Trapdoor Fucking Exit'' liner notes.
;The Dead C
*
Michael Morley –
guitar,
vocals
*
Bruce Russell – guitar,
drums
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* Robbie Yeats – drums, guitar
;Additional musicians
* Chris Heazlewood –
additional guitar (3, 4, 7–10)
Release history
References
External links
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1990 albums
The Dead C albums
Garage punk albums