General information
Genevieve was, at the time, considered the first VC album to be made “publicly available”, in keeping with their fictional backstory and artificially inflated discography. In truth, this was the first album which they took seriously in a musical sense, although it also birthed many other rumours in the surrounding press, such as the infamous Dieselharp, and the invention of “Angela”.
Release information
2004
Full Moon Productions
FMP036
CD
Originally released by Full Moon Productions in 2004. Copies read “December Star Embassy Vol II” on the CD spine - December Star Embassy is a recurrent phrase in the VC canon, the story here was that Genevieve was the second part of a fictional, otherwise unheard trilogy of albums.
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June 2007
Southern Lord
sunn67
2xLP, CD
Genevieve was then released on vinyl by Southern Lord, with velvet flocking attached to the cover, and the band’s logo in silver foil. Records are limited to 1500 copies, 1000 copies are pressed on black vinyl and 500 on purple. A CD edition in similar packaging was released the following year.
| 01 | 1 |
| 02 | P.S. Nautical |
| 03 | Avalon Polo |
| 04 | Laudanum |
| 05 | Fauna & Flora |
| 06 | Genevieve |
| 07 | Bete Noir |
Also of note is that the closing track “Bete Noir” is a slightly slowed-down version of Matthias Grassow’s track “Soham”, the first example of plagiarism and sampling that would lead to the stolen demos, and form the basis of the entire Atropine project. Additionally, the “tree in the fog” cover image is stolen from a photographer called Mark Sink, who goes uncredited here.