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Originally released in 1991. "This third release was bound to disappoint fans of the outrageous Stooges/Beefheart-influenced band. The album swung through a wider variety of styles, including Stones-style boogie rock ('Be Myself Again,' 'Baritone Street,' 'Circles'), melancholy ballads ('Golden Age,' 'Can't Slow Down'), and one genuine psychedelic epic ('Coda'). Taken on its own terms, the 1991 outing is a masterpiece of dissolution, disappointment, and loss. Chiming Byrds-style acoustic guitars, tambourines, and piano underscored the evolution toward a cleaner production sound. The band's playing never sounded more assured, although some detractors would claim this was a detrimental point. From Influence to Ignorance displayed new maturity in Union Carbide Productions' growth as a recording and performing entity. Additionally, it represented a personal watershed for Ebbot Lundberg as a singer, lyricist, and producer." --All Music Guide
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Debut album, originally released in 1989. Featuring Bjorn Olsson, Henryk Rylander, etc. "Iggy Pop has always insisted that the Stooges were really a free-jazz band in rock drag. If you accept that, then you'll likely find Sweden's Union Carbide Productions to be the best -- or at least the most authentic -- band mining the Dee-troit vein of sonic scrunge. The first album's top tracks ('Financial Declaration,' 'Cartoon Animal') could play hide'n'seek on any late-'60s Michigan compilation tape you'd care to make, while the furthest out (like the epic 'Down on the Beach') owe more to Sun Ra. By adding howling horns (two members double on sax) and a non-traditional rhythm section that rarely functions as just a timekeeper to the wah-wah heavy rock on In the Air Tonight, UCP neatly sidesteps any charges of revivalism." --Trouser Press
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4th album, originally released in 1992. "Imagine getting Steve Albini involved as producer of your next album to make it more tuneful? Normally you'd think a guy with Albini's track record as a maverick producer and musician (his years as a member of Big Black), and his fondness for huge-sounding, distorted, potentially offensive records would create a wad of aural damage not too dissimilar to their debut. Wrong. Swing is a good rock record, but ultimately anonymous." --All Music Guide
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RACD 049CD
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2nd album, originally released in 1989. "A good second effort that lacks the intensity of their debut, but never fails to deliver the goods. Again, Lundberg and Caganis are consistently wonderful, especially on the ranting 'Here Comes God' and the slightly psychedelic 'Born in the '60s.' Another undeservedly ignored record." --All Music Guide
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