FormatLPLabelNihilistGenreExperimental
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Tip! *First time on vinyl!* Originally released by Tursa (UK) in 1992, Revenge of the Selfish Shellfish was the first, full-length collaboration between Steven Stapleton and Tony Wakeford. Consisting of an eerie, yet beautiful, combination of songs and surreal locales, Shellfish remains a unique landmark with qualities not easily found in either Nurse With Wound or Sol Invictus discography. Evoking a strong sense of narrative, such as Wakeford's vocals on Lucifer Before Sunrise and the perpetual, tape-music panorama of Stapleton's The Frightened City, the listener is transported to ominous and quite unexpected destinations. Accordingly, these compositions often blur the line between distant dreams and foreboding reality.
"Although Stapleton is essentially Nurse With Wound, the fact that this was released under his own name is revealing. Revenge of the Selfish Shellfish sounds like something else altogether and it is not just the large presence of Wakeford, as it is also removed from his solo work and the Nurse With Wound releases that he also features on. The music swerves between Stapleton's crooked surrealism and Wakeford's more song orientated approach but never settles on either of the duo's respective styles." - Brainwashed
First time on vinyl since the original 1992 release on Tursa: transparent neon green or teal vinyl (250 of each colour) in a gloss gatefold jacket with a full-colour 4-panel insert. Original artwork by Babs Santini, additional new artwork by M.S. Waldron. Engineered by Colin Potter at I.C.R., York; mixed, produced and edited by Steven Stapleton.
Nihilist rerelease of 250 transparent green (this entry) and 250 transparent blue vinyl.
| A1 | Falling From Heaven | 3:06 | |
| A2 | Amoeba | 0:15 | |
| A3 | Amphimixis | 2:58 | |
| A4 | Revenge Of The Selfish Shellfish | 3:42 | |
| A5 | Walk The White Ghost | 5:06 | |
| B1 | Lucifer Before Sunrise | 5:23 | |
| B2 | Flower Dream Song | 5:43 | |
| B3 | Our Lady Of The Wild Flowers | 5:51 | |
| B4 | The Frightened City | 10:32 | |
| B5 | Melancholy Of The Street | 1:17 |
“Each remarkably singular and ambitious, blending the respective talents of their partnerships into startling and unprecedented hybrid forms, they stand among the most striking statements that any of these four have ever made.”
