A Big One

Condor
Narnack Records
General | Apr 2003

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2003-05-21
Fucking cool! Locally recorded, produced (local band?), fuzzy urgent vocs, guits and dirty analog synths give this an, um, (sorry to use the word) electroclash feel. But yet again, this is GREAT stuff (else it wouldn’t be on the a-file now would it?). Great use of autoplay mode on the synth, great guit playing, angular beats, no wave, cool vocs, creepy dark 80’s flare (ancient Faith era Cure?) but not retro at all. Noisy enough to make even this choosy mutha choose it. Play with Glass Candy, Shesus, Lost Sounds, Numbers.

1) driving, urgent, minor spooky feel
2) skippy angular pogo’ish beat
3) more swirly and dense, fucking cool
4) decidedly no wave, new wave feel, chorus riff reminds me of an old Joy Division song
5) brief noise intro, echoey space rock follows, cool
6) old cure feel in intro, turns heavy beat dark gothish
7) this has “hit” written on it, angular no wave electroclash, great
8) urgent dark synth feel, new wave no wave

Recent airplay

Metrognome
HangtimeJan 14, 2006
Remote Control
Epic SoundtracksFeb 16, 2005
Metrognome
Distraction LimitedFeb 11, 2005
Metrognome
Brownian InterimJun 23, 2004
Metrognome
rust beltMay 16, 2004
Gleaming the Cube
best of the bay areaMar 03, 2004

Charting

2003-05-26 — 2003-07-28
Week EndingAirplays
Jul 27 1
Jul 20 1
Jul 13 2
Jul 6 3
Jun 29 2
Jun 22 2
Jun 15 2
Jun 8 5

Track listing

1. Pokerface
2. A Big One
3. Metrognome
4. Gleaming the Cube
5. Delay
6. Song of Mystery
7. Remote Control
8. Suntan