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Locust (album)

1990 studio album by Trust Obey

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ104855473 ↗
Source-derived summary

Locust is the third studio album by Trust Obey, self-released in 1990.

Reception

Factsheet Five described Locust as "modern music directed against old spirits of nature" that "has the enigmatic depth of Trust Obey's other works, instrumental throughout and with a manic energy."

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from the Locust liner notes.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Locust (album)” as 1990 studio album by Trust Obey. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Locust, album and studio.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Locust, album and studio providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Locust (album)”, the useful work is to connect “1990 studio album by Trust Obey” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q104855473. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “Locust (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.