Bricks Are Heavy is the third studio album by the rock band L7, released on April 14, 1992 by Slash Records. The album peaked at number 160 on the US Billboard 200 and number one on the Heatseekers Albums chart. As of June 2000, Bricks Are Heavy has sold 327,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen Soundscan.
Produced by the band and Butch Vig, musically the album is heavier and dirtier than the band’s previous recordings and described as “catchy tunes and mean vocals on top of ugly guitars and a quick-but-thick bottom of cast-iron grunge” by Entertainment Weekly.
Tracklist:
- Wargasm
- Scrap
- Pretend We’re Dead
- Diet Pill
- Everglade
- Slide
- One More Thing
- Mr. Integrity
- Monster
- Shitlist
- This Ain’t Pleasure
L7
Donita Sparks: guitar, lead vocals (on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 and 10)
Suzi Gardner: guitar, lead vocals (on tracks 6, 9 and 11)
Jennifer Finch: bass, lead vocals (on tracks 5 and 7)
Demetra Plakas: drums, backing vocals (on track 3)
Additional musician
Paul Ryan: bongos
Production
Butch Vig: production, engineering, mixing
Howie Weinberg: mastering
Steve Marker: engineering
Mr. Colson: engineering
Elizabeth Hale: art direction
Jeff Price: art direction
Randall Martin: artwork
Vicki Berndt: photography
Arlan E. Helm: photography
Damion Romero: photography
