Hooverdam (album)

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Hooverdam
Studio album by Hugh Cornwell
Released	June 2008
Studio	Toe Rag Studios, London
Genre	Alternative rock post-punk
Length	39:01
Label	Invisible Hands Music
Producer	Liam Watson
Hugh Cornwell chronology
Beyond Elysian Fields (2004) Hooverdam (2008) Totem and Taboo (2012)

Hooverdam is the seventh studio album by Hugh Cornwell, released in June 2008 by Invisible Hands Music,^[1] initially as a free digital download with a compact disc and vinyl version released later.^[2] A short movie entitled "Blueprint" chronicling the recording of the album had a limited release in cinemas in the UK and was released on a DVD which came with the CD. Some tracks, like "Philip K. Ridiculous" and "Delightful Nightmare," echo the heavy bass lines previously present in early Stranglers records.

The night after playing in Phoenix in his North America tour during March and August, Cornwell visited the Hoover Dam and recorded a video message there for his fans. He claims he gave the album its name because the Hoover Dam is a huge feat in human engineering and a monument to mankind. He thinks that Alfred Hitchcock should have made a film set at the Hoover Dam.

The album was cited^{[by whom?]} as being one of his best yet with mainly favourable reviews. These reviews resulted in Cornwell being asked to play at certain American venues he had not played in since leaving The Stranglers.