Dark Times

Doctor Bob
Edgetone Records
General | Apr 2007

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2007-05-13
Bizarre creepiness: mostly treated lap steel guitar, all slidey or plucky and echoey used as a soundbed for treated spoken vocals, heavily treated. Really weird vocals too. Altogether creepy and fascinating. Most tracks follow similar recipe for the most part, creepy soundbed with creepier vocs layed on top. Rare to hear drums, let alone anything that resembles a “song”. Check it out.

FCC clean.

1) creepy looped “these are the dark times” over spooky slidey tones and treatments
2) plucking tones as soundbed, slow string “rockets”, slides
3) shimmery sound bed, like a bowed saw
4) simple drums, a beat, added to the recipe
5) vocals are more decipherable, good stuff, music is just coloring
6) slow to fade in, more slidey creepiness etc
7) scrapey and strange, no vocals
8) echoey, creepy
9) bowing, etc, no vocs here too
10) more the same, a little percussion thrown in
11) a spastic feel, strange, watch false ending and final spoken phrase

Recent airplay

Dark Times
Reform Crossing, Dark Times
Memory SelectDec 05, 2008
Dark Times
Memory SelectJul 27, 2007
Dream Scheme
Memory SelectJul 20, 2007
Chunk-A-Shred
Brownian MotionJul 18, 2007
Dark Times
On The WarpathJul 07, 2007

Charting

2007-05-20 — 2007-07-22 Classical/Experimental
Week EndingAirplays
Jul 22 2
Jul 8 2
Jun 10 1
Jun 3 2
May 27 2

Track listing

1. Dark Times
2. They're Coming
3. Opera-Ation
4. Codex #4
5. Reform Crossing
6. Sound From The Distance
7. Chunk-A-Shred
8. Dream Scheme
9. Abandoned Lighthouse
10. Stream Of Life Parts 1 & 2
11. Lost Transmission