Gilt (album) explained

Gilt
Type:	Album
Artist:	Machines of Loving Grace
Cover:	Machinesoflovinggrace_gilt_cover.jpg
Released:	September 19, 1995
Genre:	Hard rock, industrial rock
Label:	Mammoth^[1]
Producer:	Sylvia Massy^[2]
Prev Title:	Concentration
Prev Year:	1993

Gilt is an album by Machines of Loving Grace, released in 1995.^{[3] [4]} Unlike past albums, guitars play a far greater role in the sound of this release.

The cover image was based upon a photograph taken by Robert Wiles in 1947 of Evelyn McHale, who had leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building.

Critical reception

Trouser Press called Gilt "a garish noise-powered album less tiresomely dependent on keyboards than the first two."^[5] AllMusic wrote that "great production helps the rhythm hit you right in the chest, and what Gilt lacks in song variety, it makes up for in consistency of quality."

Track listing

All tracks by Machines of Loving Grace

1. "Richest Junkie Still Alive" – 3:36
2. "Kiss Destroyer" – 3:13
3. "Suicide King" – 4:04
4. "Animal Mass" – 4:32
5. "The Soft Collision" – 4:50
6. "Solar Temple" – 3:46
7. "Tryst" – 3:24
8. "Casual Users" – 4:27
9. "Twofold Godhead" – 3:33
10. "Last" – 3:46
11. "Serpico" – 3:45

Notes and References

1. Web site: Reviews & Previews. Billboard. September 16, 1995. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. Google Books.
2. Book: Senior, Mike. Recording Secrets for the Small Studio. August 21, 2014. CRC Press. 9781317999904. Google Books.
3. Web site: Machines of Loving Grace | Biography & History. AllMusic.
4. World View News . Keyboard . December 1995 . 21 . 13.
5. Web site: TrouserPress.com :: Machines of Loving Grace. www.trouserpress.com.