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22: 448: 486: 481: 476: 471: 466: 443: 438: 433: 428: 542:. Although highly discordant and often atonal, it's a curiously engaging record, aided in part by Björk's darkly emotive vocals and the presiding, almost mythical, sense of impending lunacy. It may not be for everyone, but this is gutsy, non-conformist music as authored by one of the most passionate, intense bands in Iceland's esteemed history". 505:
gave the album a perfect score, saying: "'The Eye' steps boldly out of the supposed confines that the Crass label is meant to impose...and drags the listener into a glacial world of confused emotion and shattered visions." He compared it to
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is a patently draining affair seemingly devoid of any coherent structure. Repeated spins, however, unearth a highly sophisticated aesthetic that borrows evenly from
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couple involved in sexual perversions and violent behaviors. The album included "Dismembered", a new version of the band's first single, "
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The album has been reissued numerous times: in 1997 by Crass, and in 2002, 2004 and 2008 by
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and engineered by Tony Cook. The cover art was designed by Dada Nana. It was named after
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Einar Arnaldur Melax (credited as "Melax") – pipe bells, harmonium, all other strings
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A music video for the track "Anna" was released, directed by Tage Ammendrup.
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Studio album
Kukl
Southern Studios
Genre
Post-punk
no wave
experimental
gothic rock
noise rock
Label
Crass
One Little Indian
Producer
Penny Rimbaud
Kukl
Söngull
Kukl á Paris 14.9.84
Icelandic

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