MY DAD IS DEAD and he's not gonna take it anymore 1st LP 1986
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Hard to find, MDID's first record issued 1986 on St. Valentine records. Both record and cover are in Excellent, little handled condition.
My Dad Is Dead, most of whose songs were indeed inspired by the loss of Edwards' father, is a compelling, hypnotic debut that ranges from thrashy aggression ("Black Cloud") to supple melodicism ("Talk to the Weatherman") to industrial gloom ("Say Goodbye"). The unifying thread is the downbeat lyrics; the sole weak link is Edwards' flat singing, which improved on subsequent releases.
The work of a person rather than a band, My Dad Is Dead's voluminous output has plainly explored the troubled waters of the soul, both personal and philosophical. Under his open-to-misinterpretation nom de disc, Cleveland (later transplanted to North Carolina) singer-writer-one-man-band Mark Edwards makes music whose appeal lies largely in its matter-of-fact handling of trauma. Growing steadily in fluency and confidence, Edwards, who writes, plays and sings with instrumental and vocal help from a pool of Cleveland musicians (Prisonshake's Chris Burgess has also produced the bulk of his recordings), makes records that are as comforting as they are harrowing.
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