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Terminal Love
Studio album by
Peter Ivers
Released1974
StudioProducers' Workshop (Hollywood, CA)
Genre
Length34:11
Warner Bros. Records
ProducerBuell Neidlinger, Peter Ivers

Terminal Love is the second

studio album by American musician Peter Ivers
. It was released in 1974.

Style

Bandcamp Daily, "was no wistful collection of gently introspective ballads: Its songs sport unorthodox structures, shifting tempos and time signatures, and arch, witty lyrics referencing everything from Freud, Adler, and Reich (“Holding the Cobra”) to time and space travel (“Alpha Centauri”) and physical entropy (the title track)." The article also noted Ivers' voice: "High and reedy enough to make Neil Young sound like Johnny Cash, it has more in common with future innovators like Television’s Tom Verlaine or The Violent Femmes’ Gordon Gano than any of Ivers’ contemporaries."[4]

Reception

Rolling Stone called Terminal Love an "uncomfortable album" which is populated by cynical and "bloodless characters". Women's Wear Daily described it as a "delicate blend of jagged frenzy".[2]

David Lynch collaborated with Ivers on the Eraserhead soundtrack after listening to this album (resulting in the song "In Heaven").[5][2]

Legacy

In 2013, The Guardian included Terminal Love in their "101 Strangest Albums on Spotify" series. The newspaper noted that 30 years on, "Ivers' oddball leanings sound entirely contemporary. Those same arrangements that seemed so off-putting in 1974 feel rich and comfortable now, and the passing of time has leant Terminal Love a delicious hipster twang it couldn't possibly have enjoyed as a new release."[6] Entertainment Weekly noted that "the idiosyncratic tunes [had] more in common with the new-wave sound of the late ’70s than anything popular at the time."[7]

NME, Danger Mouse listed Terminal Love as one of his favorite "underrated records."[9]

Track listing

  1. "Alpha Centauri" – 3:15
  2. "Sweet Enemy" – 2:45
  3. "Terminal Love" – 2:52
  4. "My Grandmother's Funeral" – 2:21
  5. "Modern Times" – 3:09
  6. "Deborah" – 3:56
  7. "Oo Girl" – 2:25
  8. "Audience of One" – 4:58
  9. "Felladaddio" – 1:47
  10. "Holding the Cobra" – 4:23
  11. "Even Stephen Foster" – 2:20

Personnel

Credits

  • Bart Chiate, Jerry Hall – Recording
  • Robert Lockart – Art Direction
  • Steven Silverstein – Photograph
  • Alan Siegel – "Production Advisor"

References

  1. ^ "Peter Ivers and New Wave Theatre".
  2. ^
    ISBN 9781416579762
    .
  3. ^ "Peter Ivers | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
  4. ^ "Unraveling the Mystery of Peter Ivers". Bandcamp Daily. 2019-11-11. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
  5. ^ "Tiff - 404".
  6. TheGuardian.com
    . 8 May 2013.
  7. ^ "The incredible life and mysterious death of Peter Ivers". EW.com. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
  8. ^ "Shintaro Sakamoto: 'Good Lies' Are More Fun".
  9. NME article: "Danger Mouse and James Mercer – My Music
    "

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