Amateur Childbirth - Brighter Futures Dialysis

Amateur Childbirth
Brighter Futures Dialysis
VINYL LP



Brand new

The debut recordings of amateur childbirth, solo acoustic trappings & ruminations from a bathtub of infinite grace.

From Brisbane, Australia.

Review from 'Rave Magazine':
With track titles such as Womb Envy and Winter Is My Favourite Airport, self-confessed strange man Ivan Hicks amps the oddball factor up in his debut album, Brighter Futures Dialysis. Stripped of instruments save a $40 nylon-stringed guitar and vocals awash with euphoric melancholia, the lyrics make most of the home-recorded tracks resemble a brainstorming exercise. For example, there's Cat Power's Armpits, a cataclysmic narrative tasting of LSD and Lou Reed, in which Hick rants 'Burning flags and vomit bags / While the skin headband / Erupts from your bile gland / And some other things / You forgot to bring / With a circle of bruises on your chin.' As the album progresses to Venus In Flames and Horseskull Nebula, however, melodies eventually pick up; the latter with its 90s strum and grunge edge (jazz chords, anyone?), the first with its themes of isolation and sordid sweetness. "Where are you going friend of mine? / Where are you going, Queen of light?' Amateur Childbirth painstakingly repeats in Malcom's Rainbow as his guitar slows down, briefly allowing us to wallow along. The debut is a triumph for Hicks and all his anatomical delusions, but it can be a little rough on an empty stomach.

Tracklisting:
1. Womb Envy 01:22
2. I Just Wanna Be Noticed 01:40
3. Winter Is My Favourite Airport 02:50
4. Cat Power's Armpits 03:09
5. p.s. I Had To Leave The Country 03:29
6. Venus In Flames 04:09
7. Malcolm's Rainbow Blows Light Across His Arterial Database 03:51
8. Horseskull Nebula 02:45
9. Burning Rings Of Gas 02:55
10. Open Chest 03:25

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