Rapider than the World

General | Mar 2005

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2005-04-27
Desperate male crazed vocals bring to mind Saccharine Trust, mish mash of angular dissonant mathy guitars and bass bring to mind Shellac, King Crimson and the whole bizarre disjunctness makes me think these midwesterners should be on Mike Patten's Ipecac records along with the likes of Mr Bungle, Tub Ring, or something Zorn or Beefheart. Great crazy stuff, but normal enough to not be annoying. Play with Hella, Melt Bannana, et al.

1) brief, disjunct
2) angular bassline driven, intricate guitar work, Fripp-Belew'esque
3) FCC at very very end after the music stops and some talk begins: Saccharine Trust type vocs come through, crazy
4) driving rock w/ dead stops in the middle, brief
5) waltzing off-time slow near-mathy, strange middle part ends w/ ~10 minutes of a droning tone, trippy
6) voice intro then rockin upbeat, bizarrre, close to being "songlike"
7) FCCs
8) starts w/ a cowbell then launches into near epic crazed rock
9) FCCs at end of this long weird track when the music stops and talking starts:
slow swingy triplet underbeat, dynamic growing louder, then that droning from track 5 reappears after ~3 min and lasts for ~11 minutes whereupon an upbeat near pop feel song goes for ~1 min, 10 seconds of silence then the potty mouth silly dialog comes in for rest of track

Recent airplay

Wonder Why?
Interim party fun!Jul 02, 2005
Where Am I Going
Brownian MotionJun 29, 2005
Mike Bell A.K.A. Tanklin
Stirling's ApproximationJun 20, 2005
Not Me
Strange AttractorJun 08, 2005
Not Me
Stirling's ApproximationJun 06, 2005
Now It's Deserted
Brownian Mega-HurtsJun 04, 2005

Charting

2005-05-08 — 2005-07-10
Week EndingAirplays
Jul 3 2
Jun 26 1
Jun 12 2
Jun 5 6
May 29 5
May 22 2
May 15 3

Track listing

1. Hungry Eyes
2. Now It's Deserted
3. Who's Ego? My Ego!
4. The Boss's Girl
5. Where Am I Going
6. Mike Bell A.K.A. Tanklin
7. Guitars and Drums
8. Not Me
9. Wonder Why?