Coup de Grâce (Mink DeVille album)
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| Studio album by Mink DeVille | ||||
| Released | October 1981 | |||
| Genre | Rock, Soul, doo-wop | |||
| Length | 33:59 | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Producer | Jack Nitzsche, Willy DeVille | |||
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Coup de Grâce, issued in 1981, is the fourth album by the rock band Mink DeVille. The album represented a departure for the band, as frontman Willy DeVille dismissed the only other remaining original member of the band, guitarist Louis X. Erlanger, and hired Helen Schneider's backup band ("The Kick") to record the album. Moreover, the album was recorded for Atlantic (Mink DeVille had previously recorded with Capitol).
DeVille told the New York Times:
Jack Nitzsche produced the album, his third for Mink DeVille, along with Willy DeVille (the song "Love Me Like You Did Before" was produced by Willy DeVille and Thom Panunzio).
Dutch rock magazine OOR named Coup de Grâce the fifth best album of 1981.Allmusic said about Coup de Grâce:
The Record said about the album, "Coup de Grâce recapitulates and resolves the themes of Le Chat Bleu in an intriguing blend of soul-pop and razor-edged rock. Its influences are as distant as The Drifters and as contemporary as Bruce Springsteen."
Unless otherwise noted, all songs by Willy DeVille.
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