A Shy Arthritic Sky

General | May 2006

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2006-05-17
Noise rock, psyche improv, two long tracks of improvised guitar centered distorto heavily treated acid drenched stonedness, the type of stuff that has KFJC tripping over themselves to “co-present” somewhere like Terrastock. Treated guitar/bass/drums with some subtle girl-moans, obtuse vocals. Think Acid Mothers Temple, F/i. I dunno, Japanoise, taking mushrooms, plugging in every pedal in your gear bag including the Echoplex and cranking the amp.

(note, only two tracks tracked)

1) false start, sounds like a radio in-studio set up, launches into psyche noise rock epicness with wah’ed guitar and girl wailing buried in back, goes double time and gets intense then falls apart/ends after ~9 minutes, a little dead air then another jam (probably shouldve been tracked separately), starts with 4 minutes or so of sparse sounds and whistling, then a noisey jam follows to end, with 20 seconds of studio sounds/dead air left
2) slower, more mindful start, builds heavily in a free-jazz sense til around 11 minutes where it quiets a bit, toward end it turns into something resembling vintage Confusion is Sex era Sonic Youth with the girl stepping up to the mic and babbling a la Kim Gordon on peyote.

Recent airplay

The 4th Iclaster
On The Warpath — Jul 22, 2006
Didion Waltz
Baptism of Solitude — Jul 06, 2006
Didion Waltz
Brownian Motion — Jun 21, 2006
Didion Waltz
Brownian Motion — May 31, 2006
June Know Enough To Shut Up
Brownian Motion — May 24, 2006

Charting

2006-05-21 — 2006-07-23 Classical/Experimental
Week EndingAirplays
Jul 23 1
Jul 9 1
Jun 25 1
Jun 4 1
May 28 1

Track listing

1. Didion Waltz
2. The 4th Iclaster
3. A Manx Is A Rare Guy
4. One More Time Against The Wall
5. My Ice Cream Rack
6. Churchbells/Military Exercises/Tennis Court
7. June Know Enough To Shut Up
8. Like A Thumbloss Blast
9. The Duece Aughts They'll Say
10. Jerkinng You Out
11. The Ghost Combs Mound At Midnight
12. Give Me That Ggomery Wot
13. I Construct Dolls Like You In My Sleep