Totem and Taboo (album)

Totem and Taboo
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 2012
RecordedDecember 2011
StudioElectrical Audio, Chicago
Length45:38
LabelHIS (self-release)
Cadiz Music (UK)
Red River Entertainment (North America)
Hugh Cornwell chronology
Hooverdam
(2008)
Totem and Taboo
(2012)
Monster
(2018)
Singles from Totem and Taboo
  1. "God Is a Woman"
    Released: 22 October 2013

Totem and Taboo is the eighth studio album by English musician Hugh Cornwell, released in 2012. It was funded via PledgeMusic and initially self-released in June 2012 on Cornwell's own HIS Records, before coming out in September 2012 through Cadiz Music in the UK, and in June 2013 through Red River Entertainment in North America. The album was recorded in Chicago with recording engineer Steve Albini.

The album title is taken from a collection of essays by Sigmund Freud from 1913.