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i

The second album, a 26-track double that moves from dream pop to house.
A.R. Kane, 1989

A.R. Kane and Ray Shulman produced it. Billy McGee scored string arrangements for a string group that included Gini Ball, Sally Herbert, Jocelyn Pook, Martin McCarrick and Audrey Riley, Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah played percussion, and Maggie Tambala and others sang. Sources differ on the release date, October 1989 on Wikipedia and March 22, 1989 on MusicBrainz, and on the label, Rough Trade or One Little Indian. It topped the UK indie chart. AllMusic gave it 4.5 stars, its Ankeny writing that it now seems like a crystal ball prophesying virtually every major musical development of the 1990s; Pitchfork's Chris Ott gave 7.7, calling it a stylistically incontinent album. Rocket Girl reissued it on 2xLP in 2024, limited to 500 copies.

Track listing

  1. Hello0:27
  2. A Love from Outer Space5:08
  3. Crack Up4:12
  4. Timewind0:15
  5. What's All This Then?4:03
  6. Snow Joke4:46
  7. Off into Space0:04
  8. And I Say2:42
  9. Yeti0:11
  10. Conundrum2:32
  11. Honeysuckleswallow3:20
  12. Long Body1:21
  13. In a Circle4:37
  14. Fast Ka0:27
  15. Miles Apart3:01
  16. Pop3:40
  17. Mars0:20
  18. Spook3:10
  19. Sugarwings3:37
  20. Back Home0:07
  21. Down5:14
  22. Supervixens5:40
  23. Insect Love2:52
  24. Sorry0:05
  25. Catch My Drift5:40
  26. Challenge0:06

More from A.R. Kane

69 (1988), New Clear Child (1995)

Sources

  1. "i" (album), Wikipedia
  2. A Love from Outer Space: A.R. Kane interviewed, FACT (2012-11-13)