Fanatical

Description

Fanatical is an album by the British indie rock band Calvin’s Dream, independently released on Sticky Music in 1993.

Cross Rhythms loved their EP and we love this, the Glasgow team’s album debut. Their publicity blurb gives an intriguing picture of what ‘Fanatical’ is all about. “Calvin’s Dream mix musical, political and religious metaphors into an unstable and disturbing critical mass. Here the intensity of faith confronts its own self-disgust. Sin spits, hell bubbles and grace purrs. Images of theocracy and facism glitter and terrorise. Philistines take their revenge and preachers howl in absurdity. Love falls into nakedness. Pop slides into parody. The 60s are both invoked and mocked. ‘Fanatical’ is the definitive musical deconstruction of Protestantism – a brooding analysis of the dream text of Scottish life in the 90s.” (Phew!) So you’re not going to get seamless-and-safe CCM here. But if you’re ready for a band which refuse to opt decisively for either grunge or groove, can sound uncannily like Bowie on “Philistines and more often like Nick Cave And The Bad Seed without the demons, this is most definitely for you. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, October 1993]

> Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/us/album/fanatical/1802164013)

CD tracklist:

01. Fanatical – 4:36
02. 6 Million Ways – 3:56
03. What Kind of Love? – 4:37
04. 60’s – 5:33
05. In His Head – 4:06
06. Shame – 3:24
07. Philistines – 4:04
08. All of This – 4:05
09. Not the Last Song – 3:06
10. Inertia – 3:37
11. Calvin’s Dream – 2:58

Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by Sticky Music.