Design Flaw is the fifth studio album by Art Bergmann, released on the Other People's Music record label in 1998.[1] The album featured acoustic recordings of songs, primarily from Bergmann's prior albums but also including a new Gram Parsons cover.[1]

Design Flaw
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 26, 1998
GenreAlternative rock
Length47:28
LabelOther People's Music
ProducerPeter J. Moore
Art Bergmann chronology
What Fresh Hell Is This?
(1995)
Design Flaw
(1998)
Vultura Freeway
(2000)

Calgary Herald music critic James Muretich named the album as one of the year's best, writing that "one of our best singer-songwriters of the last 20 years brilliantly delves into his repertoire of songs dealing with desire, drugs and dreams."[2]

Bergmann's next release, 2000's Vultura Freeway, comprised unreleased recordings from the early 1980s. He did not release another newly recorded title until 2014's Songs for the Underclass.

Track listing

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All songs written by Art Bergmann except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Our Little Secret" 4:27
2."Crawl With Me" 5:26
3."Please Don't Be Late" 3:26
4."Hospital Song" 4:13
5."Sin City"Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman3:39
6."Faithlessly Yours" 3:47
7."Buried Alive" 3:27
8."She Hit Me" 3:46
9."More Blue Shock" 4:51
10."If She Could Sing" 3:32
11."Dive" 4:13
12."Hung out to Dry" 2:41

References

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  1. ^ a b "Bergmann back to form". The Province, November 6, 1998.
  2. ^ "Rufus heads up the tracks of '98: Canadian critics pick albums by Wainwright, Lucinda Williams as the year's best releases". Montreal Gazette, December 26, 1998.