Second album on Cold Transmission by the Scottish post-punk project, following last years’ ‘Zodiac Carousel’, well received by fans and critics alike! Propter Hoc is a project by artist/writer J. A. Harrington combining post-punk influenced electronic music with referential lyrics, drawing upon poetry, literature, philosophy and other sources in the hope of connecting through a sense of expanded diegesis.
This album takes its name from a collection of essays by Elizabeth Hardwick looking at women and literature, and the effects their personal relationships have on them as authors, as char-acters, or as literary inspirations. Also, one track, ‘George Eliot’s Husband,’ takes its name from a separate essay by Hardwick where she somewhat idealises a literary romantic relation-ship, in contrast to those in Seduction and Betrayal and to her own marriage to Robert Lowell.
The sleeve image is of Georgia O’Keeffe’s hands as photographed by Alfred Stieglitz, who, had they been a literary couple rather than in the visual arts, could easily have featured in one of Hardwick’s essays. The other element of the sleeve design is a solid violet field, which is a nod to Robert Mapplethorpe’s diptych Mercury, 1987, also referenced in a song title. Limited Edition of 200 Black Vinyls, incl. printed inner Sleeve.

Tracks:
A1 Black Palms (Spring/Summer 1998)
A2 Imagineers in the Exclusion Zone
A3 The Basement
A4 Lonesome Vampire
A5 Here We are
B1 George Eliot’s Husband
B2 Witches (Autumn/Winter 1983-84)
B3 Bodies in Motion B4 Mercury, 1987