Background:

A Little Hard To Swallow ends Rozz Williams' initial foray into experimenal music.  Made in 1982, Rozz returned to some of the sounds and live recordings included in the earlier Premature Ejaculation works and edited them in with many new recordings and samples. He had become more confident in his abilities and as a result A Little Hard To Swallow is much more structured than its predecessors and can be considered  the first truly classic Premature Ejaculation recording.

Track listing:

1. Disc A 44:34
2. Disc B 45:27

A Little Hard To Swallow consists of a long sequence of untitled tracks spread over two sides. Since the original cassette recording featured few, if any, distinguishable track breaks we felt it important not to arbitary separate each single piece of music for the CD release. Rozz had obviously intended for the music to be enjoyed as a continous listening experience rather than for each piece to be listened to in isolation. This would not be the last time that Rozz used such tactics. A Little Hard To Swallow also incorporates the use of samples and there are some vocalisation and spoken word sequences as well as live jam recordings.

Artwork:

The original cassette sleeve for A Little Hard To Swallow survives and is also in the possession of Ron Marrs. The sleeve features a black and white image and above it are the words 'A brain operation, showing a bone drill boring through the skull.' In addition, Rozz superimposed an image of an eye to complete the artwork.

The original cassette artwork was quite plain and grainy, and so we decided to transform the image completely to give it a more dramatic effect for the cd release. We also chose to move the text to underneath the image.

The next task was to remove the crease lines on the cassette sleeve from the scanned artwork and then decide on the design for the back cover. With only one image to work from, consideration was given to selecting other artwork or images from Rozz's vast body of work. However, we felt that we should be faithful to the original cassette and adding unconnected images would only distract and mislead fans. Our solution was to just use the image of the eye but to turn the iris green. The Lost Recordings skull logo is also featured.

We again chose to incorporate a barcode to the back cover in keeping with many previous Premature Ejaculation releases. Since the barcodes used by Rozz were purely decorative and served no other purpose, it was our intention to use a replica of the one on the 1989 issue of the Death Cultures cassette. The use of the barcode will be a common theme throughout the series.