condition (record/cover): NM /  EX

Specialty Records Pressing.

After O Superman hit number two in the UK and Big Science crossed over commercially, Warner Bros. gave Anderson real budget for the follow-up. She spent it on a Korean kayageum player (Sang Won Park), Fairlight CMI samples, Bill Laswell producing three tracks in proto-Material funk mode, and Peter Gabriel co-writing and co-singing Excellent Birds (later re-cut for Gabriel's So). Adrian Belew and Nile Rodgers play guitar; David Van Tieghem drums; William S. Burroughs drawls his way through Sharkey's Night.

Langue d'Amour retells the Garden of Eden as Polynesian travelogue in cracked French. Gravity's Angel borrows its title from Pynchon. The technical palette (Fairlight, Synclavier, Eventide harmoniser, mostly for voice pitch-shifting) dates the record. Sleeve carries Anderson's Mt. Daly/US 4 lithograph, printed by Bud Shark.