Unsound Methods


Unsound Methods is the second studio album by Recoil, released in 1997. It was recorded at Alan Wilder's home studio, The Thin Line, in Sussex, during sessions that lasted from September 1996 to March 1997. The album was produced by Alan Wilder, with assistance and coordination by Hepzibah Sessa, and additional production and engineering by Steve Lyon. The album was mixed by Wilder.
Unsound Methods was Alan Wilder's fourth Recoil release, and his first since leaving Depeche Mode in June 1995.
The music was very different from previous Recoil offerings. According to Wilder, "...he sound relates much more to the approach taken on Depeche Mode's Songs of Faith and Devotion LP, which featured and combined lots of snatches of performance. These parts were then sampled and sequenced utilizing all the available technology, to hopefully achieve something more interesting than the sound of a band playing together."
Spoken word artist Maggie Estep, Nitzer Ebb vocalist Douglas McCarthy, Songs of Faith and Devotion backup singer Hildia Campbell, and Siobhan Lynch were all vocalists. The avant-garde electronic duo Pan Sonic from Turku, Finland remixed the song "Shunt".

Track listing

All music written by Alan Wilder
  1. "Incubus"
  2. "Drifting"
  3. "Luscious Apparatus"
  4. "Stalker"
  5. "Red River Cargo"
  6. "Control Freak"
  7. "Missing Piece"
  8. "Last Breath"
  9. "Shunt"

    Credits and personnel

"Drifting"

CD: Mute / CD MUTE 209 (UK)

  1. "Drifting"-Radio Mix
  2. "Drifting"-Poison Dub
  3. "Control Freak"-Barry Adamson Mix
  4. "Shunt"-Pansonic Mix

    "Stalker/Missing Piece"

CD: Mute / CD MUTE 214 (UK)

  1. "Stalker"-Punished Mix
  2. "Missing Piece"-Night Dissolves
  3. "Red River Cargo"-

    Trivia