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Feline (The Stranglers album)

1983 studio album by the Stranglers

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Feline is the seventh studio album by the Stranglers and was released on 14 January 1983 on the Epic record label, their first for the label. The first edition came with a free one-sided 7" single "Aural Sculpture Manifesto". Feline drew heavily on two of the dominant musical influences in Europe of the time, by using primarily acoustic guitars and electronic drums as well as synthesizers. The American edition of the album included the British hit single "Golden Brown" as the closing track on side one of the original vinyl.

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“Feline (The Stranglers album)” enters the record as 1983 studio album by the Stranglers. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Feline, Stranglers and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Feline, Stranglers and album.
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“Feline (The Stranglers album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Feline, Stranglers and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 28, 2025. The first chronological checks are 1983.

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This entry incorporates text from “Feline (The Stranglers album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.