Artist: Robert Derby Album: I'm Normal Label: Cachalot Records – CA 111 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1980 Genre: Art Rock, Synth-pop Quality: FLAC (tracks+scans) Tracklist: A1. Do Do It 2:12 A2. You're A Loser 2:26 A3. Take A Pill 2:34 A4. Wendy 2:03 A5. Chicken Love 2:01 A6. I'm Normal 2:10 A7. Dancin' 2:02 B1. Out Of Mind 2:06 B2. Media U.S.A. 2:10 B3. Tiger Beat 2:17 B4. Don't Bee 2:26 B5. Barbie 2:58 B6. Big Bad Bear 1:48 B7. Youth In Asia 3:13 This early one-man album demonstrates what could be done in the pre-tech days by a crafty auteur with two tape decks, a basement and a lot of patience. Far worse-sounding albums have been recorded by rooms full of session pros in 32-track studios. If you dig LMNOP's catchy pop, then you'll enjoy Derby's light rock-pop which benefits from skillful arrangements and his multi instrumental prowess; underdeveloped material and a samey blandness are the record's shortcomings. (Cachalot later repackaged "I'm Normal" with the similarly solitary Ian North album "My Girlfriend's Dead", overstating their achievements by titling the pair Modern Renaissance Men, but while Ian North's was reissued on CD, Robert Derby has never been reissued.) (Trouser Press). Originally posted on PPC (September 2007) in mp3, it is available 17 years later for the first time in lossless format