Occupational Hazard

{{For|hazards experienced in the workplace|Occupational hazard}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Occupational Hazard | type = Album | artist = Unsane | cover = Occupational Hazzard.jpg | alt = | released = January 27, 1998 | recorded = | venue = | studio = Excello, Brooklyn, NY | genre = *Noise rock<ref name="allmusic"/> | length = 39:17 | label = Relapse<ref name=CL/> | producer = Billy Anderson, Bruce Hathaway | prev_title = Amrep Xmas | prev_year = 1997 | next_title = Lambhouse: The Collection 1991–1998 | next_year = 2003 | misc = {{Singles | name = Occupational Hazard | type = studio | single1 = Sick | single1date = February 20, 1996<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=The Frank Kozik Resource Center - Unsane - MR 024 |url=http://www.mansruin.com/mansruin/discography/unsane.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980614082609/http://www.mansruin.com/mansruin/discography/unsane.html |archive-date=1998-06-14 |access-date=2024-01-13 |website=mansruin.com}}</ref> }} }} '''''Occupational Hazard''''' is Unsane's fourth studio album.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/unsane-mn0000184471/biography|title=Unsane | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ezTpDAAAQBAJ&dq=Occupational+Hazard+unsane+1998&pg=PA277|title=New York Rock: From the Rise of the Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB|first=Steven|last=Blush|date=October 4, 2016|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9781250083616}}</ref> It was released in 1998 through Relapse Records.

==Critical reception== {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="allmusic"/> |rev2 = ''Chronicles of Chaos'' |rev2score = 7/10<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/articles.aspx?id=2-759|title=CoC : Unsane - Occupational Hazard : Review|website=www.chroniclesofchaos.com}}</ref> |rev3 = ''Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal'' |rev3score = 6/10<ref>{{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |author-link1=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties |publisher=Collector's Guide Publishing |year=2007 |location=Burlington, Ontario, Canada |isbn=978-1-894959-62-9 |page=470}}</ref> |rev4 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev4score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=8 |page=353}}</ref> |rev5 = ''Rock Hard'' |rev5score = 6.5/10<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://rockhard.de/reviews/unsane-occupational-hazard_242817.html|title=Unsane Occupational Hazard|magazine=Rock Hard}}</ref> }} Bake Butler of AllMusic described the album as "getting hit by a semi, kicked in the teeth, and thrown down three flights of stairs all at once. [...] In a way unlike almost any other, they scream in your face fairly emotional, damaging lyrics, while breaking the musical boundaries, as well as your eardrums."<ref name="allmusic"/> ''CMJ New Music Monthly'' called it "still all meat-grinder riffs slathered on top of a pummeling, breakneck-tempo rhythm section."<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RCoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Occupational+Hazard+unsane&pg=PA51|title=Reviews|magazine=CMJ New Music Monthly|date=May 12, 1998|publisher=CMJ Network, Inc.}}</ref>

==Track listing== All lyrics written by Chris Spencer, except "Scam", written by Dave Curran. All songs written by Unsane. {{Track listing | title1 = Committed | length1 = 2:42 | title2 = This Plan | length2 = 3:18 | title3 = Over Me | length3 = 2:56 | title4 = Take in the Stray | length4 = 3:07 | title5 = Stop | length5 = 3:36 | title6 = Wait to Lose | length6 = 3:03 | title7 = Sick | length7 = 2:35 | title8 = Hazmat | length8 = 3:08 | title9 = Smells Like Rain | length9 = 2:38 | title10 = Lead | length10 = 3:17 | title11 = Humidifier |length11 = 2:43 | title12 = Scam | length12 = 2:43 | title13 = Understand | length13 = 3:21 }}

==Credits== *Vincent Signorelli – drums *Chris Spencer – guitar, vocals *Dave Curran – bass, vocals

==Footnotes== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="allmusic">Butler, Blake. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r332693|pure_url=yes}} "AllMusic ((( ''Occupational Hazard'' > Review )))"]. AllMusic. Retrieved May 18, 2006.</ref> }}

Category:Unsane albums Category:1998 albums