The Burden of Mules explained

The Burden of Mules
Type:studio
Artist:The Wolfgang Press
Cover:The Burden of Mules cover.jpg
Released:1 August 1983
Recorded:May 1982 – June 1983
Genre:Post-punk
Label:4AD
Producer:Mark Cox, Michael Allen
Next Title:Standing Up Straight
Next Year:1986

The Burden of Mules is the debut studio album by English post-punk band The Wolfgang Press. It was released on 1 August 1983, through record label 4AD.

Critical reception

AllMusic's review was negative, calling the album "impenetrable" and some tracks "so morose and vehement as to verge on self-parody". Trouser Press called it "dark and cacophonous; an angry, intense slab of post-punk gloom that is best left to its own (de)vices."[1]

Ernest Simpson of Treble was more positive, stating, "As the times changed, so did their [Wolfgang Press'] sound, but The Burden of Mules still stands as not only the beginnings of a great band, but as a definition of a specific time and place in music history. They trod the dark side of post-punk with a gloom and doom shared by many of their contemporaries, but it is their penchant for theatrics that makes this album stand out."[2]

Personnel

The Wolfgang Press
Technical

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: trouserpress.com :: Wolfgang Press . Gethers . Altricia . Frampton . Megan . . 12 March 2013.
  2. Web site: Simpson . Ernest . February 16, 2006 . The Wolfgang Press : The Burden of Mules . May 20, 2024 . Treble.