Cloudland

Cloudland is Pere Ubu's seventh album. As indicated by the presence of Stephen Hague in the producer's chair, this album is among the most straightforwardly pop efforts in the Ubu canon. The album is rife with glossy surfaces and bubbly synth pads, but the poetic vision of David Thomas roots the album firmly within the Ubu tradition. The track "Love Love Love", originally titled "Can't Believe It", dates from the band's Hearpen singles days (feat... more

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  • May 1989

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  • 49 min 20 s

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Musical Album

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Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu is an experimental rock music group formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975. Despite many long-term band members, singer David Thomas is the only constant. The group is named after Père Ubu ("father Ubu"), the protagonist of Ubu Roi ("Ubu, the King"), a play by French writer Alfred Jarry. While...

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Fontana Records

Fontana Records is a record label which was started in the 1950s as a subsidiary of the Dutch Philips Records; when Philips restructured its music operations it dropped Fontana in favor of Vertigo Records. In the seventies PolyGram acquired the dormant label. The name has also been revived as...

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