Thousand Foot Whale Claw / Cosmic Winds
Album: Cosmic Winds   Collection:General
Artist:Thousand Foot Whale Claw   Added:Mar 2016
Label:Constellation Tatsu  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2016-03-20 Pull Date: 2016-05-22 Charts: Classical/Experimental
Week Ending: May 22 May 15 May 1 Apr 24 Apr 17 Apr 10 Apr 3 Mar 27
Airplays: 3 2 1 2 2 2 3 3

Recent Airplay
1. May 21, 2016: Life Aquatic
Hadean
4. May 14, 2016: BravoMarco Variety Show
Dark Mote
2. May 21, 2016: BravoMarco Variety Show
Dunes Revisited
5. May 13, 2016: A Visit From Drum (Friday the 13th)
Dunes Revisited
3. May 18, 2016: Minimum Entropy
Cosmid Winds The Song
6. Apr 27, 2016: The Offbeat Generation
Black Tears

Album Review
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2016-03-15
"50 minutes of blissed-out ambient drones and deep, dark pits of cosmic terror!" admits the band. Constellation Tatsu cassette release. Beautiful stuff, mostly old school analog synth, Moog, sounding a la Tomita, Tangerine Dream, but also an injection of the dream wash of Kevin Sheilds' work post MBV, namely the Lost In Translation era. This is all magical lovely stuff from an Austin Texas outfit.

1) (3:17) beautiful wash of synth, dreamy and reminiscent of Kevin Shields work with the Lost In Translation soundtrack
2)* (10:24) epic moog style work that brings to mind the best of Tomita, Tangerine Dream, swirling and synthy, totally cool
3)* (5:11) swirls of white noise synth and beautiful if subtle chiming guitar start this, then a lovely beat appears and it all melds into one
4) (5:46) dark pulsings, creepier
5) (5:03) synth heavy, Tomita returns, but dreamy
6) (3:00) guitar returns as does the soundtracky dreamy feel
7)* (3:43) upbeat with beat, good urgent tone unlike others
8) (7:23) very dreamy airy synths
9) (7:30) best for last? great looping searing yet lovely synth waves, builds, droney yet noisey yet dreamy....

Track Listing
1. Dunes Revisited   5. Cassini
2. Cosmid Winds The Song   6. Sun Dogs
3. Hadean   7. Hyugens
4. Dark Mote   8. Mood Light
  9. Black Tears