Marvin The Album by Frente!

Marvin The Album

Frente!

1992

Marvin The Album is a Alt/Indie album by Frente!, originally released in 1992. On Gatefold: 41 pressings tracked, owned by 3 collectors.

Sound DNA

  • Alt/Indie
  • Indie Rock
  • jangly
  • playful
  • coastal

About

Formed in 1989, the Melbourne folk-pop act Frente! debuted with the self-funded 1991 EP, <i>Whirled</i>, which had garnered enough notice from alt-radio powerhouse Triple J to land the saucy, spare "Labour of Love" in the Hottest 100 for 1991. Frente! signed to Mushroom Records in the wake of that success, and their debut full-length, <i>Marvin the Album</i>, came out in 1992. A showcase for Angie Hart's kittenish, yet knowing voice, <i>Marvin the Album</i> runs the stylistic gamut while staying happily weird on songs like the skip-stepping "Ordinary Angels," the sugary "Accidently Kelly Street" and the strummy "No Time." The buzz Frente! was receiving in Australia eventually spilled over to the rest of the world, and when the band toured Europe in 1994, American indie Mammoth released <i>Marvin the Album</i> in slightly reconfigured form, dropping a couple of songs while adding three new tracks including the band’s stripped-down take on New Order's 1986 synth-pop smash "Bizarre Love Triangle." That cover, which along with the other new Frente! cuts, was released in Australia on the EP <i>Lonely</i>, gave Frente! a U.S. breakthrough hit. In 2014, Frente! released a 21st-anniversary edition of <i>Marvin the Album</i>, which combined its two versions into a complete picture of the band's early-'90s success.

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Tracklist

  1. 1Girl (2014 Remaster)2:42
  2. 2Accidently Kelly Street (2014 Remaster)3:20
  3. 3Most Beautiful (2014 Remaster)2:51
  4. 4No Time (2014 Remaster)3:18
  5. 5Cuscatalan (2014 Remaster)3:00
  6. 6Pretty Friend (2014 Remaster)2:35
  7. 71.9.0. (2014 Remaster)3:54
  8. 8Reflect (2014 Remaster)3:07
  9. 9Out of my Sight (2014 Remaster)2:40
  10. 10See/Believe (2014 Remaster)3:07
  11. 11Labour of Love (2014 Remaster)3:02
  12. 12Ordinary Angels (2014 Remaster)2:49
  13. 13Dangerous (2014 Remaster)3:01
  14. 14Lonely (2014 Remaster)3:19
  15. 15Explode (2014 Remaster)2:53
  16. 16Bizarre Love Triangle (2014 Remaster)1:59
  17. 17Love and Terror (2014 Remaster)1:19
  18. 18Oh Brilliance (2014 Remaster)1:56
  19. 19Last To Know (2014 Remaster)1:14
  20. 20Labour of Love ("Whirled” Version) (2014 Remaster)3:09
  21. 21Risk (2014 Remaster)0:26
  22. 22Baby Blue Sycophant (2014 Remaster)2:47
  23. 23Testimony (2014 Remaster)1:24
  24. 24Discipline and Deep Water (2014 Remaster)3:02
  25. 25Ordinary Angels (“Clunk” Version) (2014 Remaster)2:35
  26. 26Book Song (2014 Remaster)2:39
  27. 27Seamless (2014 Remaster)2:58
  28. 28Paper Bullets and Walls (2014 Remaster)2:02
  29. 29Nadi (2014 Remaster)0:35
  30. 30Somethin' Stupid (Stoopid) (2014 Remaster)2:01
  31. 31Blue (2014 Remaster)1:30
  32. 32Not Given Lightly (2014 Remaster)3:32
  33. 33I'll Miss You (2014 Remaster)2:55

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3 collectors on Gatefold own this · 41 pressings tracked on Gatefold