Almost Clear
General
| May 2006
Reviews
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2006-05-10
Reviewed 2006-05-10
Layered noise, found sounds, environmental/urban sounds, analog synth tones and washes, mostly centered around what sounds like distant radio broadcasts, often sounding like late night AM broadcasts stuck between 2 or more frequencies. Definitely a hand-held tape recorder project, lots of various samples, sources. All mostly chill and heavily layered. Field recordings go back to 1967, probably early tapes made in his childhood that he was smart enough to keep. Many tracks brief; can run any of them together on continuous play.
1) brief, like a treated distant radio broadcast
2) minimal piano plinking, low fi noise layers, noise synth grows denser and crazy toward end
3) denser, with some low freqs
4) urban landscape sounds, fire engine wails, horns, looped, treated
5) very chill
6) chill, some bar-pub singing
7) brief
8) more radio broadcast quality
9) brief, takes a turn for a more studio feel with strange low fi synth in front, vaguely rhythmic, more of an intro or a part of the following track
10-13) low distorto tones, Throbbing Gristle feel with sampled childrens voices
11) low tones continue, TV sounds, distant
12) more low tones, similar to previous 2
13) evolving out of low tones
14) some higher freqs and white noise wash
15) some pretty harmonic distortion
16) strange voice samples, tones, weird, bovine
17) noise collage, very brief
18) brief continuation
19) some high tones, but the mess continues
20) very brief
21) some bass guitar playing can be heard, synth tones, chill
1) brief, like a treated distant radio broadcast
2) minimal piano plinking, low fi noise layers, noise synth grows denser and crazy toward end
3) denser, with some low freqs
4) urban landscape sounds, fire engine wails, horns, looped, treated
5) very chill
6) chill, some bar-pub singing
7) brief
8) more radio broadcast quality
9) brief, takes a turn for a more studio feel with strange low fi synth in front, vaguely rhythmic, more of an intro or a part of the following track
10-13) low distorto tones, Throbbing Gristle feel with sampled childrens voices
11) low tones continue, TV sounds, distant
12) more low tones, similar to previous 2
13) evolving out of low tones
14) some higher freqs and white noise wash
15) some pretty harmonic distortion
16) strange voice samples, tones, weird, bovine
17) noise collage, very brief
18) brief continuation
19) some high tones, but the mess continues
20) very brief
21) some bass guitar playing can be heard, synth tones, chill
Recent airplay
Vegans At The
BBW Radio: $$$ for Cows — Feb 03, 2011
An Interview
Baptism of Solitude — May 14, 2008
Buffalo
Emphysema For Emphasis — Feb 04, 2008
Vegans At The
Day Of Difficulty — Sep 20, 2007
An Interview
Bloodstains Across Atherton — Jul 08, 2006
Yellow Piano By The Side Of The Road ($50)
On The Warpath — Jun 10, 2006
Charting
2006-05-14 — 2006-07-16
Classical/Experimental
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Jul 9 | 1 |
| Jun 11 | 3 |
| Jun 4 | 1 |
| May 28 | 2 |
| May 21 | 4 |
Track listing
| 1. | Let's Go... | ||
| 2. | Yellow Piano By The Side Of The Road ($50) | ||
| 3. | East Aurora Dairy Parade | ||
| 4. | Vegans At The | ||
| 5. | Seconds Here And There | ||
| 6. | Battle Of Tullycrine | ||
| 7. | Taco Bell | ||
| 8. | Battle Of Tullycrine Reprise | ||
| 9. | Hot Foot | ||
| 10. | An Interview | ||
| 11. | Ladies And Gentlemen | ||
| 12. | Piano For Four Hands | ||
| 13. | A Goal And Almost | ||
| 14. | Certain Arrangements | ||
| 15. | Buffalo | ||
| 16. | Icing | ||
| 17. | A Bad Ending |