Sitting Targets

Critic Score
Based on 1 review
User Score
Based on 12 ratings
June 1981 / Release Date
LP / Format
Virgin / Label
New Wave, Art Rock / Genre
Peter HammillProducer
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MFC4AFoS
74

Having heard Enter K the day before and liking it, i decided today i should just continue and check out another Peter Hammill album and it became this one, the predecessor. A record with more experimentation and less new wave, i can't lie and claim i hated it. I will say it's far weaker and less consistent though.

Hammill's solo outing sounds largely at times like experimental because it has to or can, not for another reason. Just take a listen to Empress's Clothes. Why is ... read more

kattenbroekcom
74

Sitting Targets goes from A Black Box into a fully consistent New Wave/Art Rock album that doesn't quite reach the highs as the previous three albums which have all been getting slightly more New Wave in some ways. Still a good enjoyable album with slight bangers.

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Track List

  1. Breakthrough
  2. My Experience
  3. Ophelia
  4. Empress's Clothes
  5. Glue
  6. Hesitation
  7. Sitting Targets
  8. Stranger Still
  9. Sign
  10. What I Did
  11. Central Hotel
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