Lactating Purple

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{{Infobox album

| name = Lactating Purple

| type = studio

| artist = Helios Creed

| cover = Helios Creed - Lactating Purple.jpg

| alt =

| released = October 1, 1991

| recorded = Razor's Edge Recording, San Francisco, California

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Space rock, noise rock

| length = 30:38

| label = Amphetamine Reptile

| producer = Helios Creed

| prev_title = Boxing the Clown

| prev_year = 1990

| next_title = Kiss to the Brain

| next_year = 1992

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web |first=Ned |last=Raggett |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r9162|pure_url=yes}}|title=Lactating Purple |website=AllMusic |accessdate=May 27, 2013}}

}}

Lactating Purple is an album by Helios Creed, released in 1991 through Amphetamine Reptile Records.{{cite magazine |first=Scott |last=Frampton |url=http://trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=helios_creed |title=Helios Creed |magazine=Trouser Press |year=2007 |accessdate=May 27, 2013}}{{cite news |last1=Gangloff |first1=Mike |title=Creed's Onslaught Unearthly |work=Richmond Times-Dispatch |date=April 27, 1992 |department=Entertainment |page=18}}

Critical reception

Spin called the album "amazing nonmetal heavy metal for science-fiction minds."{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3_7wN22l43MC&q=Lactating+Purple+helios+creed&pg=PT79|title=Spins|work=SPIN|date=March 21, 1992|publisher=SPIN Media LLC|via=Google Books}}

Track listing

{{Track listing

| all_writing = Helios Creed

| title1 = Lactating Purple

| length1 = 2:52

| title2 = Flying Through the Either

| length2 = 2:24

| title3 = Ub the Wall

| length3 = 3:12

| title4 = Nebuchadnezzar

| length4 = 3:04

| title5 = Modular Green

| length5 = 5:13

| title6 = Big Bang

| length6 = 3:35

| title7 = The Radiated

| length7 = 1:56

| title8 = Spider

| length8 = 2:58

| title9 = Martian Sperm & Bagpipes

| length9 = 2:49

| title10 = Amenti

| length10 = 2:28

}}

Personnel

;Musicians

  • Helios Creed – vocals, guitar, sampler, synthesizer, production
  • Paul Kirk – bass guitar
  • Paul Della Pelle – drums
  • Z Sylver – synthesizer, sampler

;Production and additional personnel

  • Billy Anderson – engineering
  • Jonathan Burnside – engineering

References

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