Post Historic Monsters
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| Studio album by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine | ||||
| Released | 6 September 1993 | |||
| Recorded | 1993 | |||
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| Length | 50:15 | |||
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| AllMusic |   |
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| Hot Press | (9/12) |
| Trouser Press | (favourable) |
Post Historic Monsters is the fourth album by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine. It reached #5 on the UK Charts becoming the band's second highest album after 1992 - The Love Album which reached #1. The album featured two singles "Lean On Me I Won't Fall Over", which reached number 16 on the UK charts, and "Lenny And Terence," which reached number 40. The band recorded the album with co-producer and engineer Simon Painter and worked in a much more spontaneous approach than before, to an extent that even saw the band crafting songs from accidental pieces.
The album shows the band working in new styles in attempt to "prove themselves" after the critical disdain that the band had started to pick up in late 1992. There are numerous other musical styles explored on the album besides the band's usual drum machine-based punk rock, and some of Jim Bob's lyrics had started to become more personal, sitting alongside tracks which are more traditionally politically or socially based. The album was a critical success, with critics complimenting the new approaches that the band had undertaken. In their lists of the top 50 albums of the year, NME named it 22nd whilst Select named it 46th. The band played the entire album live for the first time in Kentish Town in November 2009.
Cater the Unstoppable Sex Machine reached their commercial peak with 1992 – The Love Album, which unexpectedly debuted at number 1 in the UK Albums Chart in May 1992. The album was released to critical acclaim, and was named the 32nd best album of 1992 by NME at the end of the year. Nonetheless, the band "fell from grace" after the album's release, and the album's third single "The Impossible Dream" was a flop which the "critics crowed" and was only able to garner "the occasional piss-take in the gossip pages."Deadline magazine recalled that it seemed the band "were well and truly finished" and that it appeared people were tired of the band.
For the follow-up album, which the duo named Post Historic Monsters, the band knew they needed to change their approach. Singer Jim Bob said, although the negative comments at the time of the release of "The Impossible Dream" were "completely pointless," at the same time he thought "that a lot of what we were doing up to know was really easy to parody," saying that "parts of 1992 could have been made by Bobby Davro. It was up for that kind of a bashing."Fruitbat of the duo said that, for Post Historic Monsters, "we knew we had something to prove. We didn't want anybody to be allowed to dismiss us. No fucking way!" Bob said that it was not just critics who had come to dislike the band but also their fans, and noted their record label "didn't have the over-the-top enthusiasm" that they had when they first signed the duo; furthermore, the duo themselves were bored with making and playing music, and held off releasing any material for almost a year. He said "we knew we had to come up with a good album or that would have been the end of it."
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