Undertow (Blind Idiot God album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Undertow

| type = studio

| artist = Blind Idiot God

| cover = Blind Idiot God - Undertow.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1988

| recorded = May – {{Start date|1988|6}}

| venue =

| studio = BC Studio
{{small|(Brooklyn, NY)}}

| genre = Noise rock, math rock

| length = 41:11

| label = Enemy

| producer = Bill Laswell

| prev_title = Blind Idiot God

| prev_year = 1987

| next_title = Cyclotron

| next_year = 1992

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web |first=Brian |last=Olewnick |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000309066|pure_url=yes}}|title=Blind Idiot God: Undertow > Review |website=Allmusic |access-date=August 6, 2015}}

}}

Undertow is the second album by Blind Idiot God, released in 1989 through Enemy Records.{{cite magazine |first=Richard |last=Gehr |url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=blind_idiot_god |title=Blind Idiot God |magazine=Trouser Press |year=2007 |access-date=March 14, 2013}}

Accolades

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Publication ! Country ! Accolade ! Year ! Rank
Spex \| Germany \| Albums of the Year{{Cite web \| url=http://rz-home.de/~tommi.s/spex87.htm#1988 \| title=Albums of the Year - 1988 \| access-date=April 26, 2015 \| publisher=Spex \| url-status=dead \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070314205304/http://rz-home.de/~tommi.s/spex87.htm#1988 \| archive-date=March 14, 2007 }} \| 1988 \| style="text-align:center;"\| 30

class="wikitable"

Publication

! Country

! Accolade

! Year

! Rank

Spex

| Germany

| Albums of the Year{{Cite web | url=http://rz-home.de/~tommi.s/spex87.htm#1988 | title=Albums of the Year - 1988 | access-date=April 26, 2015 | publisher=Spex | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070314205304/http://rz-home.de/~tommi.s/spex87.htm#1988 | archive-date=March 14, 2007 }}

| 1988

| style="text-align:center;"| 30

Track listing

{{tracklist

| all_music = Andy Hawkins, except "Alice in My Fantasies" by George Clinton and Eddie Hazel and "Purged Specimen" by John Zorn

| title1 = Sawtooth

| length1 = 2:27

| title2 = Clockwork Dub

| length2 = 4:29

| title3 = Atomic Whip

| length3 = 4:28

| title4 = Watch Yer Step

| length4 = 3:14

| title5 = Drowning

| length5 = 6:04

| title6 = Major Key Dub

| length6 = 4:10

| title7 = Alice in My Fantasies

| note7 = Funkadelic cover

| length7 = 2:56

| title8 = Rollercoaster

| length8 = 4:36

| title9 = Dubbing in the Sinai

| length9 = 3:49

| title10 = Wailing Wall

| length10 = 3:05

| title11 = Purged Specimen

| length11 = 1:53

}}

Personnel

Adapted from the Undertow liner notes.{{cite AV media notes |title=Undertow |others=Blind Idiot God |year=1988 |type=booklet |publisher=Enemy Records |location=Brooklyn, New York}}

;Blind Idiot God

;Production and additional personnel