Catherine Wheel
Ferment
Label:  Fontana Island 
Date:  6/9/1992
Length:  0:00
Format:  CD
Genre:  Rock; Alternative
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Texture    
      2.  
      		 I Want to Touch You    
      3.  
      		 Black Metallic    
      4.  
      		 Indigo Is Blue    
      5.  
      		 She's My Friend    
      6.  
      		 Shallow    
      7.  
      		 Ferment    
      8.  
      		 Flower to Hide    
      9.  
      		 Tumbledown    
      10.  
      		 Bill and Ben    
      11.  
      		 Salt    
      12.  
      		 Balloon    
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      One of the finest albums to arise out of the shoegazing trend coating the early 1990s, Ferment is rich, lush, and wrenching. For what it's worth, Catherine Wheel get a mention in the liner notes of the Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream. Perhaps it's indicative of the fact that this album rocks a little harder than the genre-defining releases from the likes of the Stone Roses, the Charlatans, and the Inspiral Carpets. Ferment includes guitar solos, albeit tasteful guitar solos, that most of Catherine Wheel's contemporaries would have balked at. Later releases abandon the ethereal noise wash, leaning a little more toward the sound of their admirers the Pumpkins. A beautiful, spiraling release, Ferment is pliable but impenetrable. --Beth Bessmer