Unsound Methods

Unsound Methods
Studio album by Recoil
Released	27 October 1997
Recorded	September 1996 – March 1997 at The Thin Line (Sussex, England)
Genre	Electronica
Length	58:58
Label	Mute – STUMM 159 Reprise/Warner Bros. – 46820
Producer	Alan Wilder
Recoil chronology
Bloodline (1992) Unsound Methods (1997) Liquid (2000)

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
babysue	[2]

Unsound Methods is the fourth studio album by Recoil, released in 1997. It was recorded at Alan Wilder's home studio, The Thin Line, in Sussex, during sessions that lasted from September 1996 to March 1997. The album was produced by Alan Wilder, with assistance and coordination by Hepzibah Sessa, and additional production and engineering by Steve Lyon. The album was mixed by Wilder (with assistance from Paul Stevens and Simon Shazell).

Unsound Methods was Alan Wilder's fourth Recoil release (after three extended plays), and his first since his departure from his band Depeche Mode in June 1995.

The music was very different from previous Recoil offerings. According to Wilder, "...[T]he sound relates much more to the approach taken on Depeche Mode's Songs of Faith and Devotion LP, which featured and combined lots of snatches of performance (with all their inherent feel). These parts were then sampled and sequenced utilizing all the available technology, to hopefully achieve something more interesting than the sound of a band playing together."^[3]

Spoken word artist Maggie Estep, Nitzer Ebb vocalist Douglas McCarthy, Songs of Faith and Devotion back-up singer Hildia Campbell and Siobhan Lynch were all vocalists.^[4] The avant-garde electronic duo Pan Sonic from Turku, Finland remixed the song "Shunt".