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This Film's Crap Let's Slash the Seats

The debut, long tracks with a film in mind, and the home of the Sarah Cracknell vocal on Gone.
David Holmes, 1995

Released
1995

Holmes's first studio album came out in 1995 and was reissued in the United States in 1998 with a bonus CD of remixes and B-sides. Three singles came from it: No Man's Land, Minus 61 in Detroit and Gone, which features Sarah Cracknell. Holmes described the album at the time as inspired by movies and film soundtracks.

The Daily Telegraph said it had dragged the techno album into previously uncharted waters. Pitchfork's Stuart Berman later noted that the 2010 compilation The Dogs Are Parading ignores the debut apart from Gone, which he called a trip-hop time capsule.

Track listing

  1. No Man's Land12:45
  2. Slash the Seats7:17
  3. Shake Ya Brain9:14
  4. Got Fucked Up Along the Way8:16
  5. Gone8:09
  6. The Atom and You6:40
  7. Minus 61 in Detroit9:21
  8. Inspired by Leyburn8:02
  9. Coming Home to the Sun7:44

Personnel

More from David Holmes

Let's Get Killed (1997), Bow Down to the Exit Sign (2000), The Holy Pictures (2008), The Dogs Are Parading (2010)

Sources

  1. This Film's Crap Let's Slash the Seats, Wikipedia
  2. The Dogs Are Parading review, Pitchfork (2010-05-06)