Vopat / Vopat
Album: Vopat   Collection:General
Artist:Vopat   Added:Oct 2012
Label:Inam Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2012-11-11 Pull Date: 2013-01-13
Week Ending: Jan 13 Dec 30 Dec 23 Dec 16 Dec 9 Dec 2 Nov 25 Nov 18
Airplays: 1 1 1 2 2 3 1 5

Recent Airplay
1. Jan 12, 2013: The Base of A Dream is Empty
Methylene Dreams
4. Dec 13, 2012: A Family Affair
Turbide
2. Dec 25, 2012: Meow:The Best Of Fall 2012
Methylene Dreams
5. Dec 09, 2012: The Mongrel's Stoop
Intuit
3. Dec 19, 2012: Brownian Catharsis
Flail, Methylene Dreams
6. Dec 06, 2012: minimum entropy ii
Flail

Album Review
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2012-10-31
KZSU dream rock, shoe gaze heroes: Instrumentals, pure bliss, radio-friendly length, musical and pretty, fits in with just about anything rock, from post to indie to noise to pop to whatever-rock. From Indiana (“of all places”) on the Inam Label along with our other faves Sujo-godhead, Bob Crane, Olekranon-Godhead. A pure distillation of everything that made the music of My Bloody Valentine so addictive, Loop like scraping the bong, Hammock the methadone treatment for those of us who fell hard, and then Nadja the relapse back to the hard stuff, realizing the point that, indeed, there is no cure. Does this make sense? If so, nuff sed. If not, go ahead, play it. Try it kid. The first one’s free…

All instrumental, no FCCs (swear to goD)

1) (2:51) starts quiet with chiming chords but quickly becomes epic shoegaze/dream pop, fades with noise, cold end if you don’t let it blend directly into next track (play together with next)
2) (2:40) lovely wall of guitar drone/noise, sublime
3) (3:08) almost upbeat, mid-up drums that fade out with ~40 secs left leaving guitar noise/wall
4) (4:06) chill, near ambient, lovely, no drums, just dreamy tones
5) (4:01) almost “rockin”, smacks of Loop, last ~1 min drums end and a cool drone carries it off
6) (4:02) epic feeling, ultimate shoe gaze/noise rock, close to a slow plod but more of a heavy head nod beat, anthemic really, almost familiar sounding in that sense

Track Listing
1. Methylene Dreams   4. Springworm
2. Flail   5. Turbide
3. Blue War   6. Intuit