Ex-Cult / Negative Growth
Album: Negative Growth   Collection:General
Artist:Ex-Cult   Added:Nov 2016
Label:In the Red Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2016-11-23 Pull Date: 2017-01-22
Week Ending: Jan 22 Jan 15 Jan 8 Jan 1 Dec 18 Dec 11 Dec 4
Airplays: 2 1 1 1 1 2 2

Recent Airplay
1. Jul 19, 2017: The Fuzz Deli
Mister Investigator
4. Jan 21, 2017: Homeroom
Mister Investigator
2. Jan 26, 2017: a strange pursuit
Nightmare Zone
5. Jan 19, 2017: a strange pursuit
Government Birdcage
3. Jan 24, 2017: Magnetized Toner
Government Birdcage
6. Jan 18, 2017: Brownian Motion
Mister Investigator

Album Review
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2016-11-23
Weird. Urgent punky fuzzy. Drums have an almost drum machine quality as all the songs sound very similar but not, with a heavy snare compression. Male vocs, fuzzy punky. Sometimes I hear Joy Division, PiL, Killing Joke in this, other times Swell Maps. But mostly it smacks of recent strange stuff by Ty Segal, Male Gaze, Useless Eaters. All songs killer, bizarre, despite rather monotoned. Hypnotic.

1)* (4:51) driving pogo post punk 2) (3:42) deep bass, killer fuzz. 3) (1:36) 2-4 beat in breaks, a punky urgency. 4) (2:33) joy division on pcp, fuzzy 5) (1:59) some diff breaks 6)* (3:01) slow fade in noise intro is different, some near twangy guitar 7) (3:04) darker sparser minor chords ring out. 8) (2:54) another driving mess. 9) (4:59) very different from others slower darker doomier, addition of sax is bizarre, sick

Track Listing
1. Mister Investigator   5. Dogs Roll In
2. Attention Ritual (No One Sees)   6. Panic In Pig Park
3. Let You In   7. Hollywood Heat Seeker
4. Government Birdcage   8. Nightmare Zone
  9. New Face On