In the Flat Field

In the Flat Field
The album cover has a black background with a square in the middle featuring a black-and-white image of a naked man posing with a metal object. Below this is captioned "Bauhaus" in white text.
Studio album by
Bauhaus
Released3 November 1980[1]
RecordedDecember 1979 – July 1980
StudioBBC Maida Vale and Southern, London
Genre
Length37:44
Label4AD
ProducerBauhaus
Bauhaus chronology
In the Flat Field
(1980) 		Mask
(1981)

In the Flat Field is the debut studio album by English gothic rock band Bauhaus. It was recorded between December 1979 and July 1980, and released on 3 November 1980 by record label 4AD, the first full-length release on that label. The cover artwork is a reproduction of Duane Michals' 1949 photograph, Homage to Puvis de Chavannes.[2]

In the Flat Field is considered one of the first gothic rock albums.[3]

  1. ^ "New Albums" (PDF). Music Week. 8 November 1980. p. 29. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Homage to Puvis de Chavannes, 1949". Artnet. Artnet Worldwide Corporation. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Raggett was invoked but never defined (see the help page).