Cure for Sanity
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| Studio album by Pop Will Eat Itself | ||||
| Released | August 1990 | |||
| Recorded | England 1990 | |||
| Genre | Grebo, industrial, alternative dance | |||
| Length | 65:42 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Producer | Flood | |||
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Cure for Sanity is the third album by UK-based grebo band Pop Will Eat Itself (and their second on the RCA Records label). Released in August 1990, Cure for Sanity entered the UK Albums Chart in November 1990 and stayed there for two weeks, peaking at No. 33. It re-entered the chart when re-released in July 1991, staying there for one week at No. 58. The track listing on the 1991 re-release was slightly different from that of the original 1990 release. In Australia, the album peaked at No. 51 in March 1991 and spent six weeks on the ARIA top 100 albums chart.
In 2011, a two-disc version of the album was issued by Cherry Red Records. It contained the original 1990 release in its entirety, plus other material from the same period (i.e., material that either had been previously-unreleased or had been released only on singles or as promotional material).
Although commonly called Cure for Sanity, the album's packaging uses the phrase The Pop Will Eat Itself Cure for Sanity.
Following the August 1989 release of the EP Very Metal Noise Pollution, the band made no serious attempts at further recordings until after they returned from a tour of Australia in December of that year. Sessions in January 1990 produced the single "Touched by the Hand of Cicciolina", the subject of which was porn-actress-turned-politician Cicciolina. The publicity campaign for the single included a video and a photo shoot in which Cicciolina participated.
At this point, in the words of band member Adam Mole, "we were struggling for new songs". There was a period of approximately two months after recording "Cicciolina" during which the band made several further attempts at recording, but none of those attempts produced usable results. The band went on tour in the United States in April 1990 and did not return to a recording studio until May.
The sessions that began in May 1990 were productive. There were two groups of sessions, each lasting about three weeks. Both were produced by Flood and were held at the Black Barn recording studio in Surrey, England. The album was released in August.
Cure for Sanity is less light-hearted than prior albums, "mixing a couple of more serious efforts with a new slew of catchy, immediate singles and not-bad album cuts." The album features the beginnings of a dancier sound than on previous albums.
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