Rotund for Success
# Rotund for Success

Professional ratings :

| Review scores ||
| - | - |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |

Rotund for Success is a studio album by the Australian electronic music group Severed Heads, released in 1989. Three singles were released from the album: "Greater Reward", "All Saints Day" and "Big Car", the first two reaching the top 30 on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart. Much like the rest of the band's discography, the album has been issued many times in several formats through a variety of labels.

## Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "[Tom] Ellard’s lyrical sensibility is typically off-kilter and flashes of a twisted mind do erupt now and again in the mix, but the diminution of musical disturbance and the elimination of the band’s creative challenge is most disturbing." Option wrote that "each song has a catchy simple melody defined by a 'cheap & nasty synthesizer with knobs.'"

## Track listing

All tracks are written by Tom Ellard.

2021 Medical Records 2LP reissue

## Personnel

* Tom Ellard - vocals, synthesizers, production
* Stephen Jones - photography, circuit design, video synthesizers
* Robert Racic - production
* Wayne Miller - co-production
* Adrian Bolland - co-production
* Repo Graphics - cover artwork
* Tony Mott - photography

## Release history

| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog | Release Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Australia | 1989 | Nettwerk | LP | W1-30035 | First vinyl pressing |
| Australia | 1989 | Volition Records | LP | VOLT 028 | First vinyl pressing |
| North America | 1989 | Nettwerk | CS | W4-30035 | First cassette pressing, same track list as the vinyl edition |
| North America | 1989 | Nettwerk | CD | W2-30035 | First CD pressing, includes two extra tracks not included on the vinyl and cassette editions |
| Europe | 1989 | Volition Records | CD | VOLT 028 | First CD pressing, includes two extra tracks not included on the vinyl and cassette editions |
| Australia | 2002 | Sevcom | CD-R | N/A | Sevcom CD-R reissue, includes four extra tracks, including the 1989 CD edition bonus tracks |
| United Kingdom | 2004 | LTM | CD | LTMCD 2404 | LTM CD reissue, includes three extra tracks plus the 1989 CD edition bonus tracks |
| United States | 2021 | Medical Records | 2LP | MR-089 | Expanded version, with several bonus tracks from previous (re)issues, plus two 12" single remixes |
