Life in One Chord | |
Type: | ep |
Artist: | Straitjacket Fits |
Cover: | Life in One Chord.jpg |
Released: | 1987 |
Recorded: | The Lab Studios, Auckland, April 1987 |
Genre: | Alternative Rock, Dunedin sound |
Label: | Flying Nun Records[1] |
Producer: | Terry Moore |
Next Title: | Hail |
Next Year: | 1988 |
Life in One Chord is an EP by New Zealand band Straitjacket Fits, released in 1987.[2] [3] It was the band's debut release.[4] All of the tracks from the EP were included as part of an extended version of their first full album, Hail.[5] The songs are credited to Shayne Carter/Straitjacket Fits except for "Sparkle That Shines" (Andrew Brough/Straitjacket Fits). "Sparkle That Shines" was released as a single in 1989.
The EP spent 10 weeks on the New Zealand charts.[6]
The EP, produced by Terry Moore, was recorded at The Lab, in Auckland, New Zealand.[7] [8]
Trouser Press wrote that the EP "occasionally trips over its own ambition but dazzles on the wild 'Dialing a Prayer'."[9] Melody Maker called the EP "one psychotic straitlaced feline mutha of a record."[10] In a retrospective article, the Sunday Star-Times wrote: "Right from the first note of their first EP, Life in One Chord (1987), Shayne Carter made up his own world, a personalised gothic opera, with Carter playing the rebel rock star in the grand, sneering tradition of early Elvis, John Lennon and Sid Vicious."[11]