Keep On Doing


Keep On Doing is the third studio album by the folk trio the Roches, released in 1982 on Warner Bros. Records. It is their second collaboration with Robert Fripp, following their 1979 debut album.

Critical reception

The [New York Times] opined that "the trio's close-harmony singing reaches an unprecedented richness and complexity." The Christian Science Monitor deemed the album "a charmingly rough-cut LP full of whimsical folk." Less supportative, The Boston Phoenix felt that "the Roches haven't yet become the rule-breaking interpreters of urban, bohemian, feminine experience they once promised to be — perhaps because they draw too often on a common adolescence and a shared conversation for their satire."
The Rolling Stone Album Guide wrote that the trio "regain some oddball focus from another oddball Fripp treatment."

Track listing

  1. "The Hallelujah Chorus" – 3:33
  2. "Losing True" – 4:56
  3. "Steady with the Maestro" – 3:45
  4. "The Largest Elizabeth in the World" – 3:24
  5. "On the Road to Fairfax County" – 4:47
  6. "I Fell in Love" – 4:20
  7. "The Scorpion Lament" – 3:34
  8. "Want Not Want Not" – 2:56
  9. "Sex Is for Children" – 3:38
  10. "Keep On Doing What You Do / Jerks on the Loose" – 3:58

Personnel