''What Fresh Hell is This?'' is the fourth studio album by
Art Bergmann, released in 1995 on
Epic Records
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.
The album gets its name from a quotation by American wit
Dorothy Parker.
The album was written primarily while Bergmann was in rehab, recovering from his prior battles with
drug addiction.
In its year end poll of its newspapers' music critics,
Southam Newspapers named the album as one of the ten best albums of 1995, with ''
London Free Press
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History
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'' critic Ian Gillespie lauding Bergmann as "a Canadian rock genius, doomed to hover around the edges of commercial obscurity", and ''
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History
''The ...
'' critic James Muretich calling the album "more tortured, timeless tunes of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll by Canada's subculture answer to
Ray Davies,
Leonard Cohen and
Paul Westerberg".
It won the
Juno Award for Best Alternative Album in 1996. Bergmann followed up with ''
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'', an album of rerecorded versions of songs from his earlier albums, in 1998, but did not record another full-length album of new material until ''
The Apostate'' in 2016.
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''Exclaim!
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'', February 11, 2016.
Track listing
References
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1995 albums
Art Bergmann albums
Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year albums