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Life in One Chord is an EP by New Zealand band Straitjacket Fits, released in 1987.[2][3] It was the band's debut release.[4] All of the tracks from the EP were included as part of an extended version of their first full album, Hail.[5] The songs are credited to Shayne Carter/Straitjacket Fits except for "Sparkle That Shines" (Andrew Brough/Straitjacket Fits). "Sparkle That Shines" was released as a single in 1989.

Life in One Chord
EP by Straitjacket Fits
Released	1987
Recorded	The Lab Studios, Auckland, April 1987
Genre	Alternative Rock, Dunedin sound
Length	16:12
Label	Flying Nun Records[1]
Producer	Terry Moore
Straitjacket Fits chronology
Life in One Chord (1987) Hail (1988)

The EP spent 10 weeks on the New Zealand charts.[6]

Production

The EP, produced by Terry Moore, was recorded at The Lab, in Auckland, New Zealand.[7][8]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that the EP "occasionally trips over its own ambition but dazzles on the wild 'Dialing a Prayer'."[9] Melody Maker called the EP "one psychotic straitlaced feline mutha of a record."[10] In a retrospective article, the Sunday Star-Times wrote: "Right from the first note of their first EP, Life in One Chord (1987), Shayne Carter made up his own world, a personalised gothic opera, with Carter playing the rebel rock star in the grand, sneering tradition of early Elvis, John Lennon and Sid Vicious."[11]

Track listing

References

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