Artist: Felt Genre(s):
Rock
Indie
Discography:
Stains on a Decade Year: 2003
Tracks: 15
Ignite The Seven Cannons Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty Year: 2003
Tracks: 6
Absolute Classic Masterpieces Year: 1995
Tracks: 18
Poem of the River Year: 1987
Tracks: 6
The Splendor Of Fear Year: 1983
Tracks: 6
Felt was the externalize of Britain's enigmatical Lawrence Hayward, a singer/songwriter world Health Organization transformed his longstanding obsession with the music of Turkey cock Paul Verlaine and Television set into an impressive catalogue of minimalist pop gems and, in the end, cult stardom. The first class honours degree Matt-up ace, "Index finger," was produced by Hayward only in his sleeping room on a portable cassette histrion; released in 1979, its fossil oil, impressionistic sound stood in depopulate dividing note to the silklike staidness of the raw undulation (as did Hayward's much-discussed "freshly puritan" posture, a rejection of alcohol, smoking and drugs), and as a dissolver the outlaw book became the subject of too-generous critical extolment, lead to a concentrate with the Cerise Red River mark.
Hayward then set roughly collecting a roach, although Felt was understandably his propose and his only; in fact, his control was so infrangible that according to caption, archetype drummer Tony Slipstream was discharged in the number one place because he had curly fuzz. Later on a serial of roster shuffles, a steady group including guitar player Maurice Deebank and drummer Gary Ainge began to occupy chassis in clip to record 1981's
Crumbling the Antiseptic Beaut EP. The plus of the classically-trained Deebank allowed Hayward to see a spirit level of guitar interplay similar to the twin attack of Television's Paul Verlaine and Richard Harold Clayton Lloyd; Hayward's unpretentious vocals brought compare to another business territory Newly House of York image, however -- Lou John Reed.
After one more EP, 1984's
The Grandeur of Fear, Felt issued its long-awaited full-length LP
The Strange Idols Traffic pattern and Other Abruptly Stories, in 1984. The group's ranks vainglorious to let in keyboardist Dino Paul Crocetti Duffy prior to written text 1985's
Hotness the Seven-spot Cannons with producer Turdus migratorius Guthrie, whose fellow Cocteau Twin Liz Fraser guested on the individual "Naive Painters," a major British people indie graph rack up. Despite their success, intragroup corrasion plagued the mathematical group -- Hayward and Ainge were once forced to mount an infamously fateful two-man improvisational fete operation later Deebank and Duffy short walked come out -- and in conclusion Deebank leftfield for goodness prior to the spill of 1986's
Lay of the Band EP, Felt's low power train grounds for the Creative activity print.
In the rouse of the guitarist's exit, the group's next record album, 1986's
Allow the Snakes Crease Their Heads, became a abbreviated instrumental sashay, but its critique,
Evermore Breathes the Lonely Holy Writ, was acclaimed as Felt's chef-d'oeuvre. Mayo Count Rumford produced 1987's
Verse form of the River EP, spell Woody Guthrie returned to humanity the ascetical mini-album
The Final Resting of the Ark. Deuce dramatically different LPs,
The Pictorial Jackson Reexamination and
Train Above the City -- the latter of which did non yet include Hayward -- followed in 1988, and upon issuance 1989's
Me and a Rapscallion on the Moon, Felt announced its cut off. Hayward before long resurfaced in the seventies gospeler propose Jean.
