Surrealistic Picnic
General
| Nov 2006
Reviews
Chauncy Sunderland
Reviewed 2006-12-24
Reviewed 2006-12-24
KFJC style psychedelia/ambient-noise rock from New York. Super stoned with lots of weird noise. Layers upon layers of guitar loops, feedback, and samples. Think Acid Mothers Temple. It is difficult to get through the longer pieces, but strangely satisfying by the end. FCC clean. Picks 1,3.
**1-(13:25) Starts fairly easy but more difficult noises enter. Hollers, and ride cymbals. Gets progressively more cacophanous and loud. Ends with creepy clip of man talking about... beards?
2-(6:04) echoey low guitars and bass. The sound of wind blowing through a trumpet. Harsh high pitched guitar enter midway. Weird drunken brass coming through the buzzing noise. Noisier than 1.
*3-(26:31) Starts slow with spaced but prominent bass tones and some slow synth washes/rustles. Horns appear. Chant like synth. Altered spoken-vox samples. Guitar picks up tempo and starts to pick more. -18:00 quiets down. Beats, noises enter and leave quickly, with one gong in the background. Space noises. At -15:37 bam! Distorted indonesian music on fast foward times 100 mutates into buzz, noise, and backwards looped sax? -7:00 slowly starts to fall apart until the end. Lots of interesting noises come and go. Ends with low-end rumbles, chant like noises and a space age windsweep.
**1-(13:25) Starts fairly easy but more difficult noises enter. Hollers, and ride cymbals. Gets progressively more cacophanous and loud. Ends with creepy clip of man talking about... beards?
2-(6:04) echoey low guitars and bass. The sound of wind blowing through a trumpet. Harsh high pitched guitar enter midway. Weird drunken brass coming through the buzzing noise. Noisier than 1.
*3-(26:31) Starts slow with spaced but prominent bass tones and some slow synth washes/rustles. Horns appear. Chant like synth. Altered spoken-vox samples. Guitar picks up tempo and starts to pick more. -18:00 quiets down. Beats, noises enter and leave quickly, with one gong in the background. Space noises. At -15:37 bam! Distorted indonesian music on fast foward times 100 mutates into buzz, noise, and backwards looped sax? -7:00 slowly starts to fall apart until the end. Lots of interesting noises come and go. Ends with low-end rumbles, chant like noises and a space age windsweep.
Recent airplay
The First Official Communication From The Planet Lunch; Innocence To Wisdom
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The Third Official Communication From The Planet Lunch; Space Is The Plate
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The Third Official Communication From The Planet Lunch; Space Is The Plate
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The Second Official Communication From The Planet Lunch; They Are Wonders Of The
Fiction Romance — Feb 08, 2007
The Third Official Communication From The Planet Lunch; Space Is The Plate
On The Warpath — Jan 20, 2007
The First Official Communication From The Planet Lunch; Innocence To Wisdom
How Many Licks Does It Take, Mr. Owl? — Jan 09, 2007
Charting
2007-01-07 — 2007-03-11
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Feb 11 | 1 |
| Jan 21 | 1 |
| Jan 14 | 1 |
Track listing
| 1. | The First Official Communication From The Planet Lunch; Innocence To Wisdom | ||
| 2. | The Second Official Communication From The Planet Lunch; They Are Wonders Of The | ||
| 3. | The Third Official Communication From The Planet Lunch; Space Is The Plate |