| Trans Am / Volume X |
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| Album: | Volume X | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Trans Am | Added: | Jun 2014 | |
| Label: | Thrill Jockey Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2014-06-20 | Pull Date: | 2014-08-22 |
| Week Ending: | Aug 17 | Aug 10 | Aug 3 | Jul 27 | Jul 20 | Jul 13 | Jul 6 | Jun 29 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 08, 2016: | Life Aquatic Anthropecene | 4. | Aug 13, 2014: | Brownian Motion Failure | |
| 2. | Mar 01, 2016: | The Library Anthropecene | 5. | Aug 06, 2014: | Brownian Motion Failure | |
| 3. | Nov 18, 2014: | In The Year One Thousand, Eight Thousand: 1, 2, 3, 4!!!! Megastorm | 6. | Aug 02, 2014: | Music Casserole Anthropecene |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2014-06-18 | ||
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Chicago trio that rose to underground fame in the mid-90’s along with all of Chicago post-rock (Tortoise, et al) in the same way all Seattle bands rose with Nirvana, even if they didn’t sound grunge. This band plays a killer brand of minimal yet complex rock, mostly instrumental, that incorporates bass synths, interesting synth/real drums, searing guitar and samples. Never afraid to to go balls-out you never know if they are going to chill in a Krautrock ambience next. First release in at least a decade (to my knowledge) and this comes out the gate running, is totally kick ass. Nice mix up of post-rock, Krautrock, noise, metal. Non-verbal centric. 1) (5:43) quiet fade-in to a pounding dirgey stoney plod rock juxtaposed over dreamy ethereal synths 2) (4:22) synth centered, strangely sampled instruments, spooky buried vocs, dark and ominous throughout 3) (4:01) Styx’esque synths bring this in, a triplet 5/3 thing going on in the beat that turns 4/4 at very end, Krautrock feel for sure 4) (1:27) cool simple drum beat buried under fucked up treatments, noise 5) (2:37) wall of sound driving, galloping w/ wanky guitar leads bordering on ironic hair metal spoof 6) (3:55) big mean bass synth over funky tribal simple upbeat synth beats 7) (2:14) big bad bass, heavy head nodding (real) drum beat 8) (4:34) vocoder effect on vocs very reminiscent of Joe Preston’s Thrones, big slow plodding music as well 9) (4:21) big minor toned synth rock, w/ killer ambient noise at the end 10) (4:48) out of place strummy acoustic guitars, very nice, kinda like post Barrett Pink Floyd before Waters started singing about his mommy issues | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Anthropecene | 6. | Ice Fortress | |||
| 2. | Reevaluations | 7. | Failure | |||
| 3. | Night Shift | 8. | I'll Never | |||
| 4. | K Street | 9. | Megastorm | |||
| 5. | Backlash | 10. | Insufficiently Breathless |