- art rock, rock
- 55 min
- 12 tracks
- Restless Records
In a Foreign Town is the 16th studio album by the English singer-songwriter Peter Hammill. It was originally released in 1988 on Enigma Records, and was subsequently reissued on Hammill's own Fie! label.
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Grave, spare, classical in form and character-led.
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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Tracks
- 1Hemlock6:29
- 2Invisible Ink4:20
- 3Sci-Finance (Revisited)4:22
- 4This Book5:14
- 5Time to Burn3:45
- 6Auto3:58
- 7Vote Brand X4:03
- 8Sun City Night Life4:34
- 9The Play's the Thing4:55
- 10Under Cover Names4:19
- 11Smile5:19
- 12Time to Burn (instrumental)3:43
12 tracks, 55 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Peter Hammill
- Label
- Restless Records
- Released
- 1988
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
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