''Will You Speak This Word'' is the fourth studio album by English
post-punk
Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad music genre, genre of Punk Music, punk music that emerged in the late 1970s as musicians departed from punk's traditional elements and raw simplicity, instead adopting a variety of avant-garde s ...
band
Dome, released in 1982 by Norwegian record label Uniton.
Content
According to ''
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 ...
'', ''Will You Speak This Word'' "combines some of ''
Dome 3s ethnic borrowings with the repetitive minimalism of earlier works."
Reception
AllMusic
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called it "even more intriguing" than ''Dome 3'', "if in some ways impenetrable".
''
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 ...
'' called it "a progressive album in the truest sense of the term".
Track listing
All songs written by Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis unless otherwise indicated.
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.
Engineering
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Eric Radcliffe
Eric Charles Radcliffe (often credited as E.C. Radcliffe - born 3 December 1950) is an English recording engineer and producer who worked with new wave and synthpop bands in the early 1980s in Basildon, England. He later became owner of Blac ...
Dome
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Bruce Gilbert
Bruce Clifford Gilbert (born 18 May 1946) is an English musician. One of the founding members of the influential and experimental art punk band Wire,Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, , p. 180-182 he branched ...
- vocals, production
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Graham Lewis
Graham Lewis (born Edward Graham Lewis, 22 February 1953) is an English musician.
Lewis is the bassist with punk rock/post-punk band Wire, a band formed in 1976.
Biography
On Wire's first studio album Graham Lewis was credited as ''Lewis''; ...
- vocals, production
Additional Musicians
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Vincent Clark - vocals,
Fairlight Computer Synthesizer (track 1)
* Deborah Danahey - vocals (track 1)
* David Drinkwater - violin (track 1)
* Terrence Leach - saxophone (tracks 1, 3, 4, 6)
References
External links
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1982 albums
Dome (band) albums