Assembly (John Foxx album)

Assembly is the title of an 18-track compilation album by British recording artist John Foxx, issued in 1992. It contains tracks from the artist's first four albums – Metamatic, The Garden, The Golden Section and In Mysterious Ways as well as tracks which had not been previously issued in an album format. The album was remastered for CD by Foxx himself, and although was the first time many of his solo tracks had appeared on CD there were no new tracks and none of the tracks remain exclusive to this release.[1]

Assembly
Compilation album by John Foxx
Released	June 1992
Genre	New wave, electronic, synthpop
Length	70:00
Label	Virgin CDVM 9002
Producer	John Foxx
John Foxx chronology
In Mysterious Ways (1985) Assembly (1992) Cathedral Oceans (1997)

The sleeve of "Assembly" features one of Foxx's Cathedral Oceans images, although in 1993, none of the music from that project had yet been made available. The CD booklet contains sleeve notes written by John Foxx himself where he describes each phase of his work over the 1980s.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"A New Kind of Man"
2.	"Underpass"
3.	"Burning Car"
4.	"This City"
5.	"Twilight's Last Gleaming"
6.	"Ghosts On Water"
7.	"This Jungle"
8.	"Endlessly"
9.	"Someone"
10.	"Sitting at the Edge of the World"
11.	"In Mysterious Ways"
12.	"Morning Glory"
13.	"Europe After the Rain"
14.	"Systems of Romance"
15.	"Walk Away"
17.	"Pater Noster"
18.	"The Garden"

Tracks 1-3 from Metamatic

Track 4 - B-side of "No-One Driving" single

Tracks 5, 6, 8-10 from The Golden Section

Track 7 - B-side of "Europe After the Rain" single

Tracks 11, 12 from In Mysterious Ways

Tracks 13 - 18 from The Garden

The issue is part of the "VU Virgin Universal" series and is the first John Foxx compilation. The next compilation was Modern Art – The Best of John Foxx, issued in 2001.

References

1. http://www.quietcity.co.uk/discog/assembly.html Quiet City - Discography : Assembly

External links

• Quiet City - the music of John Foxx
• Assembly at discogs.com