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| Released | September 26, 1979 | |||
| Recorded | April 1976 – May 1979 | |||
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| Length | 39:01 | |||
| Label | Ralph | |||
| Producer | The Residents | |||
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Eskimo is the sixth studio album by American art rock group the Residents.[2][3] The album was originally supposed to follow 1977's Fingerprince; however, due to many delays and arguments with management, it was not released until 1979.
The pieces on Eskimo feature home-made instruments and chanting against backdrops of wind-like synthesizer noise and miscellaneous sound effects. The work is programmatic, each piece pairing music with text detailing a corresponding pseudo-ethnographic narrative.[4] While Eskimo is officially maintained to be a true historical document of life in the Arctic, the stories are deliberately absurd fictions only loosely based in actual Inuit culture, and the chanting is a combination of gibberish and commercial slogans. The album satirizes ignorance toward and mistreatment of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.[5]
- ^ a b c Fitzgerald, Colin (April 9, 2020). "THE 50 BEST POST-PUNK ALBUMS EVER: PART 4, JAMES CHANCE TO THE POP GROUP". PopMatters. Retrieved 2022-10-22.
- ^ The Rough Guide to Rock (2nd ed.). Rough Guides. 1999. p. 820.
- ^ Selvin, Joel (29 Apr 1979). "Lively Arts". San Francisco Examiner. p. 57.
- ^ "The Iceman Just Took A Turn For The Better (Eskimo)". The Cryptic Corporation. September 26, 1979. Archived from the original on February 28, 2014.
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