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| Jul 2003
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Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2003-10-01
Reviewed 2003-10-01
If you like Flying Saucer Attack you will love this: droney fuzzy layers of guitars, echoey and reverby, over downtempo comatose sampled beats, processed in a low-fi distorted manner that isn’t noisy per se, but certainly layered. Dreamlike. Little or no vocals, but when they appear Space Needle or My Bloody Valentine comes to mind, especially if the guits are bending. But I suppose that’s redundant as the common theme is ambient distorted echoey guitar soundscapes with trippy beats. There are also elements of Sebadoh, Yo La Tengo. I find this stuff relaxing and soothing, my coworker in the lab said it made her head feel like it was going to explode and made me turn it off. An hour later she said her head still hurt. Go figure.
1) long skippy hypnotic, ends cold
2) MBV feel at first, shifts to clear FSA
3) brief beats with television samples at end
4) brief again
5) difficult looped beat with droniness
6) noisy TV samples, collagelike
7) more noisy layered TV samples lead into drumless song
8) super echoey and droney noisy effects
9) simple song Sebadoh 4track feel with drum beat that joins
10) simple organ, chill Yo La Tengo feel, long
11) FSA with YLT guit and voc feel
12) this sounds a lot like Space Needle with the simple beat and strumming guitars
13) basic dissonant organ with treated weird vocs
14) simple acoustic guit+vocs, annoying
15) simple low-fi folky song
16) folky gets super noisy
17) noisy with med beat
1) long skippy hypnotic, ends cold
2) MBV feel at first, shifts to clear FSA
3) brief beats with television samples at end
4) brief again
5) difficult looped beat with droniness
6) noisy TV samples, collagelike
7) more noisy layered TV samples lead into drumless song
8) super echoey and droney noisy effects
9) simple song Sebadoh 4track feel with drum beat that joins
10) simple organ, chill Yo La Tengo feel, long
11) FSA with YLT guit and voc feel
12) this sounds a lot like Space Needle with the simple beat and strumming guitars
13) basic dissonant organ with treated weird vocs
14) simple acoustic guit+vocs, annoying
15) simple low-fi folky song
16) folky gets super noisy
17) noisy with med beat
Recent airplay
Minmae Opens Novella
dream shoes — Feb 14, 2011
Planes Will Crash, Canvas Called Retrospect
The Longest Short Song Marathon — Sep 06, 2004
Minmae Opens Novella
The Digital/Analog War — Nov 18, 2003
Perpetual Shift Introduction
Distraction-Limited — Oct 17, 2003
Perpetual Shift Introduction
Brownian Motion — Oct 15, 2003
Planes Will Crash
Stirling's Approximation — Oct 15, 2003
Charting
2003-10-06 — 2003-12-08
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Nov 23 | 1 |
| Oct 19 | 4 |
| Oct 12 | 2 |
Track listing
| 1. | Perpetual Shift Introduction | ||
| 2. | Planes Will Crash | ||
| 3. | Canvas Called Retrospect | ||
| 4. | Sound of One Hand Clapping | ||
| 5. | Minmae Opens Novella | ||
| 6. | Temperance | ||
| 7. | Wontonnes | ||
| 8. | The Bastard | ||
| 9. | The Trouble Bear | ||
| 10. | Long Wave | ||
| 11. | Summertime W/ You | ||
| 12. | You're a Spider | ||
| 13. | How Union & Beech Used to Be | ||
| 14. | The Understatement of the Mo | ||
| 15. | The Man Who Fought for Speed | ||
| 16. | Poltergeist Over England | ||
| 17. | Macross Dub |