| Dark Adapted Eye | |
| Type: | compilation |
| Artist: | Danielle Dax |
| Cover: | Danielle_Dax_-_Dark_Adapted_Eye.jpg |
| Released: | November 1988[1] |
| Recorded: | Fortress Dax Spring 1987 |
| Genre: | Art rock |
| Label: | Sire Records |
| Producer: | Danielle Dax |
| Prev Title: | The Janice Long Session EP |
| Prev Year: | 1988 |
| Next Title: | Blast The Human Flower |
| Next Year: | 1990 |
Dark Adapted Eye is a compilation album by Danielle Dax, an English experimental musician, formerly of The Lemon Kittens. Released in 1988 on Sire Records on LP, cassette and CD, it consisted of material from albums and singles released on her own label, Awesome Records, and was the first release of her material in North America. After being out of print for years, the CD was reissued in the U.S. by the Noble Rot label in 2008. In 2019, the U.S. label Rubellan Remasters remastered the album and reissued it on CD with several bonus tracks different from the original release. All tracks were produced by Dax and co-written by David Knight.
This compilation album could be considered an expanded international edition of her third album, Inky Bloaters, missing only "Born to Be Bad" from that album.
Cover artwork is by Holly Warburton.
The single "Cat-House" was described by Billboard magazine as "Pile-driving dance-rock [radiating] with energy", and complimented the "warped, acid house" B-side "Cold Sweat".[2]
U.K. 7" (April 1988) – Awesome Records AOR 12
U.K. 12" (April 1988) – Awesome Records AOR 12T
U.S. 12" Promo (November 1988) – Sire PRO–A–3330
U.S. 12" (February 1989) – Sire 9 21128-0
U.K. 7" (3 April 1989) – Awesome Records AO23
U.K. 12" (3 April 1989) – Awesome Records AO23T
U.S. 12" Promo (1989) – Sire PRO–A–3630