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Heartbreakland
Electronic · 1989 · 15 tracks

Heartbreakland

Bill Nelson

Fifteen vignettes of digital heartbreak. Brittle drum machines and lonely synth melodies recorded in the isolation of a home studio.

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It's like a private diary of a breakup recorded on a 4-track with a drum machine.

A stark, digital loneliness that finds a strange beauty in the mechanics of grief.

Tracklist · 15 Tracks
01
You Know How to Hurt
2:42
02
Broken
2:11
03
You Make Me Cry
2:42
04
Mess Around
2:50
05
Why?
3:15
06
Insanity
2:13
07
Confused
4:40
08
Heartbreakland
3:04
09
Lucky Star
3:13
10
Heartbreak Thru the Telephone
2:47
11
One Day at a Time
2:42
12
Tip the Wink
2:26
13
Shadow Haunting Me
4:31
14
Raining
2:03
15
Love’s Immortal Shining Angel
3:48
Moments Worth Waiting For
The brittle, skeletal drum machine pattern on 'Broken' that feels as fragile as the title suggests.
The way the title track 'Heartbreakland' uses a cold, digital synth wash to create a sense of vast, lonely space.
The sudden, sharp guitar interjections on 'Confused' that cut through the otherwise polite electronic arrangement.
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