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Put Your Hands Down

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Put Your Hands Down
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1994 (1994-02)[1][2]
GenreElectro-industrial
Length46:46
LabelCleopatra
Producer
Penal Colony chronology
Put Your Hands Down
(1994)
5 Man Job
(1995)

Put Your Hands Down is the debut studio album of Penal Colony, released in February 1994 by Cleopatra Records.[3][4]

Reception

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Factsheet Five compared the music of Put Your Hands Down favorably to Hate Dept. and described Penal Colony as being "masters of the genre."[5] Industrialnation said "Penal Colony have already left several veteran bands in the dust" and "this music is for thos who like their music angst-ridden and dark, with a live feel."[6]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Jason Hubbard, Dee Madden, Andy Shaw and Chris Shinkus, except "Warsaw" by Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner

No.TitleLength
1."Halidified (Burnt RAM)"4:15
2."Product"3:29
3."Blue 9"3:15
4."Combine"4:20
5."Drawn and Quartered"4:05
6."Reconciled"4:29
7."Organic"4:02
8."Paste"3:27
9."Gout"2:48
10."Scoma"3:34
11."Insemin"3:09
12."Among the Living"3:07
13."Warsaw" (Joy Division cover)2:46

Personnel

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Adapted from the Put Your Hands Down liner notes.[7]

Penal Colony

Additional musicians

  • Tyler Anthony – harmonica (8)

Production and design

Release history

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Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States 1994 Cleopatra CD, CS CLEO 1094

References

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  1. ^ Barnhart, Becky (1996). "Schwann Spectrum". Schwann Spectrum. Winter 1996–1997. Stereophile, Incorporated: 139. ISBN 9781575980386. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  2. ^ Barnhart, Becky (2000). "Schwann Spectrum". Schwann Spectrum. 9 (2). Stereophile, Incorporated: 202. ISBN 9781575980782. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  3. ^ "Penal Colony: Put Your Hands Down > Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  4. ^ Thompson, David (November 1, 2000). Alternative Rock: Third Ear – The Essential Listening Companion. Miller Freeman, Inc. p. 751. ISBN 9780879306076. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
  5. ^ Gunderloy, Mike (1994). "Penal Colony: Put Your Hands Down". Factsheet Five (54). Mike Gunderloy: 17. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  6. ^ The Dark Man (1995). "Sonic Reviews: Penal Colony – Put Your Hands Down". Industrialnation (10): 71. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  7. ^ Put Your Hands Down (booklet). Penal Colony. Marina Del Rey, California: Cleopatra Records. 1994.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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