Dark DayWindow

Label:

Dark Entries – DE-006

Format:

Vinyl , LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue, Remastered

Country:

US

Released:

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

Minimal

Tracklist

A1 Window 6:26
A2 Don't Bother 2:42
A3 The Metal Benders 2:48
A4 Mr. Potatohead 3:04
B1 Nudes In The Forest 2:55
B2 Sleep 4:10
B3 Danger/Dancer 3:38
B4 Eternal Return 2:57
B5 Second Warning 2:24

Credits

  • Design [Cover]Marc Nasdor
  • EngineerJohn Rhodes
  • Keyboards, Percussion [Electronic], Composed ByBill Sack
  • LayoutEloise Leigh
  • Remastered ByGeorge Horn
  • Vocals [Additional]Bunny Lake (2)
  • Vocals, Keyboards, Bells, Toy Piano, Percussion [Electronic], Producer, Design Concept [Cover], Composed ByRobin Lee Crutchfield

Notes

This first edition re-issue also includes a 24-page newsprint zine "Darker Days As I Recall Them" by Robin Crutchfield with silk screened cardstock jackets and is hand-numbered to 500 copies.

Other Versions (5 of 8)

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Title (Format) Label Cat# Country Year
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Window (LP, Album) Plexus KMH709230, KMH709330 US 1982
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Window (LP, White Label, Promo) Plexus KMH 709230 US 1982
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Window (LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Repress) Dark Entries DE-006 US 2010
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Window (LP, Test Pressing) Dark Entries DE-006 US 2010
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Window (LP, Album, Remastered, Repress) Dark Entries DE-006 US 2012

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Reviews

  • darkentriesrecords's avatar
    Following the first few incarnations and various lineups of r.l. crutchfield’s Dark Day, 1981 saw the direction of the project morphed into an electronic keyboard duo of Robin Crutchfield and Bill Sack with an album of nine songs released on Plexus Records. Lyrics were inspired by various sources including occult texts by Colin Wilson and art by Leger, Bruegel, Malevich, Man Ray, Duchamp and Jean Cocteau. The mechanized sound of “Window” is less one of the man machine robots in charge of Kraftwerk than man at the mercy of his machines. The infectiously-engaging toy-like instruments captured the ears of fans worldwide with popcorn drum rhythms. A Synare borrowed from Jeff and Jane Hudson lent a “Bette Davis Eyes” homage and crack to the percussion on the percolating tracks. The instant polaroid images, an homage to Japanese recording artist Susan of “The Girl Can’t Help It,” adorned the album sleeve in two stark headshots of musicians at work, haunted by the unseen. The front cover, a Crutchfield-designed collage in two tones of salmon flesh and Mediterranean watery blue show a string of rickety children in diaper togs, forced much like the children of “Cat In The Hat” to spend a dreary day indoors. The look on the children’s faces asks you to determine whether they are needing to be rescued from their enclosure, or inviting you to and play. Is the window something you look out, or in? You must answer that question.

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