- rock
- 44 min
- 11 tracks
- Mercury Records
Sitting Targets is the tenth studio album by Peter Hammill, released on Virgin Records in June 1981. It contains several songs in the raw new wave style typical of Hammill's work in the late 1970s and early 1980s, following the dissolution of his band Van der Graaf Generator, and one of his occasional tender ballads, "Ophelia". "Stranger Still", "Sign" and "Central Hotel" have all been regularly performed by Hammill live in recent years.
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Spare, grave, character-led and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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Tracks
- A1Breakthrough3:55
- A2My Experience3:14
- A3Ophelia3:09
- A4Empress’s Clothes4:02
- A5Glue3:40
- A6Hesitation4:05
- B1Sitting Targets5:21
- B2Stranger Still4:55
- B3Sign3:45
- B4What I Did3:37
- B5Central Hotel4:41
11 tracks, 44 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Peter Hammill
- Label
- Mercury Records
- Released
- 1981
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- DE
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