Rapider than Horsepower / Rapider than the World
Album: Rapider than the World   Collection:General
Artist:Rapider than Horsepower   Added:Mar 2005
Label:Alone  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2005-05-08 Pull Date: 2005-07-10
Week Ending: Jul 3 Jun 26 Jun 12 Jun 5 May 29 May 22 May 15
Airplays: 2 1 2 6 5 2 3

Recent Airplay
1. Jul 02, 2005: Interim party fun!
Wonder Why?
4. Jun 08, 2005: Strange Attractor
Not Me
2. Jun 29, 2005: Brownian Motion
Where Am I Going
5. Jun 06, 2005: Stirling's Approximation
Not Me
3. Jun 20, 2005: Stirling's Approximation
Mike Bell A.K.A. Tanklin
6. Jun 04, 2005: Brownian Mega-Hurts
Now It's Deserted

Album Review
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

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