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What Noise
Type:Studio album
Artist:Kissing the Pink
Cover:What Noise cover.jpg
Alt:Album cover of What Noise; features green text on red background with strange graphs and images in the middle
Released:October 1984
Genre:
Label:Magnet
Producer:
  • Kissing the Pink
  • Philip Bagenal
  • David Strickland
  • John Walters
  • Neil Richmond
  • Ken Thomas
Prev Title:Naked
Prev Year:1983
Next Title:Certain Things Are Likely
Next Year:1986
Year:1984

What Noise is the second studio album by English synth-pop band Kissing the Pink, released in October 1984 by Magnet Records. It is the last Kissing the Pink album to feature founding members including saxophonist Josephine Wells, and violinist Peter Barnett. Second keyboardist George Stewart would also leave the band after this album but would later rejoin the band. The album features new addition, Simon Aldridge, who played guitar, and bass in the band. This album did not reach as much attention and was not as widespread as Kissing the Pink's other albums. It never held a worldwide release.[1] It was their first album to make use of sampling.

34 years after its original release, What Noise was released on CD for the first time in 2018 by Cherry Red as a remastered special edition, which includes the 12 original album tracks plus seven related bonus tracks.[2]

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the What Noise liner notes.[3]

Kissing the Pink

Notes and References

  1. Web site: KISSING THE PINK's What Noise (Expanded Edition) reviewed!. Schnee. Stephen SPAZ. 2019-12-11.
  2. Web site: Kissing The Pink: What Noise, Special Edition. Cherry Red. 11 December 2019.
  3. Naked. Kissing the Pink. 1984. Magnet Records. CD booklet.