Deaf, the debut album from J. G. Thirlwell's You've Got Foetus on Your Breath was released in 1981 on Thirlwell's own Self Immolation Records label. Thirsty Ear reissued the album as a CD in 1997 in the US. Both releases were limited editions: only 2,000 copies of the LP and 4,000 copies of the CD were produced.

The Deaf LP is Self Immolation #WOMB OYBL 1. The CD re-release is Ectopic Ents #ECT ENTS 012.

Track listing

1. "New York or Bust" – 2:00
2. "Is That a Line?" – 7:09
3. "Why Can't It Happen to Me?" – 3:14
4. "I Am Surrounded by Incompetence" – 4:52
5. "What Have You Been Doing?" – 5:32
6. "Today I Started Slogging Again" – 5:48
7. "Harold MacMillan" – 3:35
8. "Thank Heavens for Push Button Phones" – 4:26
9. "Flashback" – ^*
10. "Negative Energy" – 15:55 CD ?:?? LP

The final track on the CD seems to approximate a locked groove, with the same few seconds of music repeated for the final 10 minutes.

Personnel and Production

• J. G. Thirlwell (as You've Got Foetus On Your Breath) - Performance and production
• Harlan Cockburn - Engineering

External links

• Deaf at foetus.org

1981 albums | Foetus albums | Industrial albums