Bursting Bubbles is a studio album by the British rock musician Kevin Coyne, which was released on the Virgin label in 1980.

Much of the material was quickly recorded according to Godding: "I'd play a riff and he'd get out some pieces of paper and start singing along.

"[6] The album was described by Penny Kiley of Melody Maker as follows: Coyne would later perform "Children's Crusade" as part of his concert, on 6 October 1982, at the original Tempodrom, close to the Berlin Wall.

[7][8] The album was re-released in 1991 and Q Magazine described it as "in the spirit of the Peel sessions",[2] while Dave Thompson from Allmusic viewed it as 'a darkly tempered, and roughly produced collection'.

[1] Reviewing the album for makeyourowntaste.com in 2013, Allister Thompson wrote: "This is the "difficult" album, and every troubled but talented artist seems to have one... Bursting Bubbles is as naked as Coyne ever was, a collection of heart-wrenching vignettes from the dark side of the mind, sometimes accompanied by weirdly cold post-punk backing, such as the distorted guitar and drum machine of "Dark Dance Hall".