Name: Red Exposure
Brand: Chrome

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

FTRSMO39A

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Colour

Blue

Colour details

Alien Interzone Coloured Vinyl

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Discogs ID

[r25238002]

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Chrome Mirrorboard Outer Sleeve / Large Format Screen Printed Neon Poster / Unseen Photos. 

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-11-11

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5053760096221

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Total Cap

Blue LP

CLOLP4601

Red &amp; Green Vinyl

Includes an entire bonus LP of rare “lost tracks” recorded in the same year as the album tracks!

2023-12-15

889466460111

Red LPx2

FTRSMO41

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5053760096351

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Chrome

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Futurismo

San Francisco-based industrial rock outfit, Chrome, is known for their unique blend of vocals, synths, and guitar. The band was formed by Damon Edge and Helios Creed in the late 1970s. With additional players such as John L. Cyborg on synth loops, Tommy Grenas on synth, Aleph Kali on drums, Lou Minatti on guitar, John Stench on drums, Hillary Stench on bass, Gary Spain on guitar, and Lux Vibratus on bass.

Chrome's sound has been compared to other experimental rock bands like Pere Ubu and Cabaret Voltaire. They draw inspiration from a variety of genres including industrial music and post-punk. Their music is characterized by its intense energy and dark atmospheres.

With a discography spanning several decades, Chrome continues to be influential in the underground music scene. Fans of *Helios Creed* or bands like Suicide and The Residents will appreciate Chrome's innovative approach to music.

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The classic 1980 album: Red Exposure by the uncompromising Chrome.

Arguably considered the San Francisco bands greatest work, Red Exposure, the fourth album to feature core members Damon Edge and Helios Creed, was the definitive version of Chrome’s idiosyncratic approach to sound: a projected vision of near future dystopia via an undefinable guise of experimental space rock and punk-tinged alien soundscapes. Here, the band simultaneously draw from the otherworldly noises of their past records, whilst pushing their synthesizers forward into, albeit oblique, pop song structures.

Edge’s vocals are structured more like an instrument than a voice, lyrics painting images of humanities future on the edge of total destruction. As Creed’s guitar work multilayers it’s way into a completely different aural spectrum, beautiful yet violent, slashing against rhythmic pulsations, loops and experimentations, to create a sound that even today feels beyond the here and now. This distillation of the bands repertoire seemed to envision a deconstruction of rock ‘n’ roll, aimed to break past the shell of cliché that it would of course eventually come to inhabit. Which is why despite it’s age Red Exposure remains a record that still sounds like the sonic product of a far off civilisation, making this disk of new wave nihilism vital for fans of Space rock, Krautrock, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire and Suicide.

Red Exposure

Music GB

Discover Red Exposure by Chrome. The classic 1980 album from the San Francisco band, featuring experimental space rock and punk-tinged alien soundscapes. Available in LP, CD formats from Futurismo.