Track Listing

1. Diana
2. Herald
3. Drip Drip
4. Song To Comus
5. Bite
6. Bitten
7. Prisoner

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #307122 in Music
• Released on: 2004-09-21
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

fried
'First Utterance' is an infamous acid-folk record with themes of murder, rape, and mental illness. It is often written up as being deranged, evil and dark, which it most certainly is in places, but it also has deep melancholy and sadness ('The Prisoner') and transcendental lysergic beauty ('The Herald'). Roger Wootton was the driving force, a desperate, hairy man whose spit and bile spangled the spotlights as he berated his audiences a full six years before punk. The record is a jewel that has influenced everyone from Coil to Circulus; another reminder of the intense seriousness, creativity and anti-corporate self-definition that went on in the beautiful analogue 70s.

Damn!
I completely agree with the other reviewers....and I did buy this album when first released and terrorised various flatmates when a student in Swansea! Sad to say, I thought I was being smart when I sold it for £60 in 1994! I still have a fairly lacklustre cassette recording but will now track down a new copy to intimidate my kids!

A unique work of art
The vinyl version of this remarkable album was fervently sought after by the few who heard this music at the time of its release - thankfully it can be relatively easily obtained on CD now. This really is a one-off sound that everybody with any interest in music will want to hear. A combination of gothic folk-evil and mystical malevolence that is magnificently constructed upon brilliant musicianship. It is difficult to describe because it is so different to anything else, but once heard, never forgotten. Essential listening.