Alan Wilder and Recoil
Recoil is the solo project of former Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder. Recoil stuff is much more "industrial" sounding (whatever that means) than Depeche Mode.
Since the Hydrology project, Alan has worked with guest vocalists on two albums: Bloodline and Unsound Methods. 		Alan Wilder


[Cover of 1 + 2 LP]

Hydrology and 1 + 2

 Released in 1988
UK CD - Mute Records (inc. LP '1 + 2' ) STUMM 51

Tracks list:

  1. Grain
  2. Stone
  3. The Sermon
  4. 1
  5. 2
[Cover of Hydrology CD]

1 + 2 originally came out in 1986. Alan Wilder produced the first three songs and released this album in 1988. Each track on the album is lengthy. This stuff is certainly not pop music, and doesn't sound too much like Depeche Mode. 1 + 2 has a lot of samples from early Depeche Mode songs, but "1" and "2" themselves don't sound like DM.

Bloodline

Released in April 1992
UK CD - Mute Records STUMM 94

[Cover of Bloodline CD] Tracks list:

  1. Faith Healer
  2. Electro Blues For Bukka White
  3. The Defector
  4. Edge To Life
  5. Curse
  6. Bloodline
  7. Freeze

Unsound Methods

Released in October 1997
UK CD - Mute Records STUMM 159

[Cover of Unsound Methods CD] Tracks list:

  1. Incubus
  2. Drifting
  3. Luscious Apparatus
  4. Stalker
  5. Red River
  6. Control Freak
  7. Missing Piece
  8. Last Breath
  9. Shunt

'Unsound Methods' is the first fully fledged Recoil LP to which Wilder has been able to devote all his creative energies since leaving Depeche Mode in 1995. Assembling the unnerving scores in his home studio, he gradually pieced together the music and ideas for every track before drawing each collaborator into his net of intrigue. "Most of the tracks emerge in this way, with a loose concept which I will offer to the various singers that they can then elaborate on. Rather than starting with a completely blank piece of paper, they're being asked to write something that evokes a particular feeling, without imposing any more than that. I think that everyone I work with likes having that framework."

Links

 Here are some good Recoil sites on the internet:

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