Name: Half Machine Lip Moves + Read Only Memory by Chrome
Brand: Chrome
SKU: 886788115743
Price: 9.9 USD
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 3 (112 reviews)

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Since Chrome's chemistry wasn’t quite solidified on its 1976 debut, The Visitation, this twofer is a better way to become acquainted with the group. Following John Lambdin's departure, Chrome added band member Helios Creed to the lineup with 1978’s Alien Soundtracks, but it was in 1979 when its sound gelled with its third album, Half Machine Lip Moves, and the Read Only Memory EP. “TV as Eyes” opens, first sounding like aggressive lo-fi garage rock in the spirit of The Stooges before dissolving into a barrage of layered TV samples, static, and distorted Moog chirps that come together to sound like intercepted signals from outer space all playing at once. The Hawkwind-inspired “Zombie Warfare (Can’t Let You Down)” further proved that psychedelia wasn’t just for hippies, while “March of the Chrome Police (A Cold Clammy Bombing)” and “You’ve Been Duplicated” could have been Chrome’s first forays into crafting catchy songs. “You Can’t See Them—They Can’t Touch You” starts with backmasking and mechanical ambiance, hinting at a future industrial-based direction.

Half Machine Lip Moves + Read Only Memory

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1. TV As Eyes

2. Zombie Warfare (Can’t Let You Down)

3. March Of The Chrome Police (A Cold Clammy Bombing)

4. You’ve Been Duplicated

5. Mondo Anthem

6. Half Machine Lip Moves

7. Abstract Nympho

8. Turned Around

9. Zero Time

10. Creature Eternal

11. Critical Mass

12. You Can’t See Them - They Can’t Touch You

13. Inacontact

14. Read Only Memory

15. In Front Of The Crowd

16. I Am The Jaw

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