Twice Born Men
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Twice Born Men is an album by English experimental rock
band Sweet Billy Pilgrim
. It is a Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize album of the year 2009, and a Sunday Times top 100 album of 2009.
Experimental rock
Experimental rock or avant-garde rock is a type of music based on rock which experiments with the basic elements of the genre, or which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique....
band Sweet Billy Pilgrim
Sweet Billy Pilgrim
Sweet Billy Pilgrim are an English Experimental Rock/ Folk band, composed of bassist/banjo player Anthony Bishop, guitarist and singer Jana Carpenter, guitarist and songwriter Tim Elsenburg, and drummer/percussionist Alistair Hamer.-Biography:...
. It is a Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize album of the year 2009, and a Sunday Times top 100 album of 2009.
Track listing
- "Here It Begins" (2:36)
- "Truth Only Smiles" (5:05)
- "Bloodless Coup" (5:43)
- "Longshore Drift" (5:01)
- "Kalypso" (6:30)
- "Future Perfect Tense" (4:31)
- "Joy Maker Machinery" (6:55)
- "There Will It End" (4:40)
Personnel
- Anthony Bishop - bass
- Tim Elsenburg - singing, guitar, producer, mixing
- Alistair Hamer - drums
- David SylvianDavid SylvianDavid Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...
- artwork [Art Direction] - Chris Bigg - artwork [Design]
- Tacita DeanTacita DeanTacita Dean is an English visual artist who works primarily in film. She is one of the Young British Artists, and was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998.-Life and work:...
- artwork [Drawings] - Alphonse Elsenburg - clarinet (track 2, 8)