Unsane (album)
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| Unsane | ||||
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| Released | November 26, 1991 | |||
| Recorded | January 16, 1991 | |||
| Studio | Fun City (New York City, New York) | |||
| Genre | Noise rock[1] | |||
| Length | 36:52 | |||
| Label | Matador | |||
| Producer | Wharton Tiers, Unsane | |||
| Unsane chronology | ||||
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Unsane is the debut album by Unsane, released on November 26, 1991, through Matador Records.[2][3] It is the only studio album by the group to feature founding member Charlie Ondras (with the exception of 1989's Improvised Munitions, which didn't get a proper release until 2021).[4] Ondras died of a heroin overdose during the 1992 New Music Seminar in New York during the tour supporting Unsane.[5] The album's cover art, depicting a decapitated corpse on subway tracks, was given to the band from a friend who worked on the investigation for the case.[6]
Death metal band Entombed covered "Vandal-X" on their self-titled compilation album in 1997.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Distorted Sound | 9/10[7] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [8] |
| Kerrang! | [9] |
| Ox-Fanzine | [10] |
| Select | [11] |
Patrick Kennedy from AllMusic called it a brilliant and daring debut that "assaults the senses like the Swans or Foetus before them, but tempers that art-scum priggishness with clear roots in punk and classic rock."[1]
