Chrome (8) – Half Machine Lip Moves

I bought my copy of this exact pressing in this listing with the Lee stampers in early 1979 so I am not sure how this can be dated 1980 or a repress. My understanding is different metal parts were sent to a few different processing plants in 1978 for a 1979 release. This wasn’t popular enough at the time to warrant a repress a year later.

I originally had this on BB then found a copy in Nottinghill Road record shop on this label with the 3 posters. I notice versions mention the car poster but not the others. Anyone else got a copy with the 2 extra posters?

truly a Post Punk Masterpiece. they had some other excellent Lps around the early 80's also , but this is the high water mark of Chrome. So much going on experimental- wise yet fast driving Rock at the same time. Check "Half Machine from the Sun" (the Lost Tapes) db. Lp too which came out in 2013.

I agree with Bradx - one of the greatest albums of all time, past, present and future. Acid Punk with a unique darkness; Chrome were violently psychedelic in their golden years. Half Machine Lip Moves has riffs that Hawkwind would have died for, but there's so much more. An unbelievable rampage of sonic madness from start to finish. Edge's vocals are truly weird and wired.

So what pressing is the "definitive" best one? I know people usually default to the original one but is there any other remaster or better quality pressing that I should know?

Amazingly futuristic album of science fiction post-punk rock n' roll. Probably the most advanced and dislocated series of loosely themed sf songs in existence. Chrome used the whole palate of studio effects to achieve a monstrous and violent collision of sudden tape edits, distorted vocals and ur-metal riffing. The mix itself is extremely aggressive - brittle and trebly.... the drums have the famed 'metal tea-tray' sound. The tracks themselves have very few examples of 'one-song/ one-riff' as the pieces splinter off in a dozen directions. For me this album is the high-water mark of post-punk rock. It doesn't get better than this... and it still sounds futuristic after more than 30 years. Check out Alien Soundtracks and (with some reservations but I still think it's a good album) The Visitation for more of the same. Chrome made one more decent album for Beggars Banquet in 1980; 'Red Exposure'... but for me it was all downhill after this as the band dissolved into simplistic sludge metal.