Hungry Beat
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| Sep 2007
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Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2007-10-23
Reviewed 2007-10-23
Re-issued super rare early 80’s post punk new wave Scottish band. Angular, disjunct, dissonant yet melodic, interesting near-“pot-pans” percussion. Faltering off-key male vocs of day, smack of Human League, Echo and the Bunnymen, Gang of Four. Guitars definitely sound like the latter (alas, but who came first?!). Great stuff, for fans of Lilliput, Gang of Four for sure, The Fall or most other post-punk, London art punk, dueling noise-guitar, dissonance.
1) poppy feel, melodic off key guitar, danceable
2) upbeat, jangly feel almost in guitars
3) disjunct, epic no wave of the era, with cool in-studio false start
4) excellent, loopy melodies, dissonance
5) denser, with keys, female back vocals
6) excellent instrumental, explores the melody of guitar dissonance
7) another instrumental, noise guitar abounds
8) mostly instrumental with screams and non-sense vocalizations
9) swingy, very Fall’esque
10) cool jam, minimal vocs/lyrics
11) instrumental jam, upbeat, pensive, nervous
12) upbeat jam, swingy drunken and careless
13) slicker version of the track 3, no false start this time, but thinner somehow
14) cool guitar melodies, instrumental jam
15) another version of track 9
16) another version of 6, Liliput’ish
1) poppy feel, melodic off key guitar, danceable
2) upbeat, jangly feel almost in guitars
3) disjunct, epic no wave of the era, with cool in-studio false start
4) excellent, loopy melodies, dissonance
5) denser, with keys, female back vocals
6) excellent instrumental, explores the melody of guitar dissonance
7) another instrumental, noise guitar abounds
8) mostly instrumental with screams and non-sense vocalizations
9) swingy, very Fall’esque
10) cool jam, minimal vocs/lyrics
11) instrumental jam, upbeat, pensive, nervous
12) upbeat jam, swingy drunken and careless
13) slicker version of the track 3, no false start this time, but thinner somehow
14) cool guitar melodies, instrumental jam
15) another version of track 9
16) another version of 6, Liliput’ish
Recent airplay
Big Gold Dream
Virtually Happy — Dec 08, 2025
Discord
Brownian Motion — Jan 24, 2018
Get Up And Use Me
Brownian Motion — Apr 29, 2015
Discord
Brownian Motion — Aug 21, 2013
New Thing In Cartons
nag champa orangeasm — Jun 04, 2008
Everything's Roses
On The Warpath — Dec 25, 2007
Charting
2007-10-28 — 2007-12-30
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Dec 30 | 1 |
| Dec 23 | 1 |
| Dec 16 | 3 |
| Dec 9 | 1 |
| Nov 25 | 2 |
| Nov 18 | 2 |
| Nov 11 | 3 |
| Nov 4 | 5 |
Track listing
| 1. | Candyskin | ||
| 2. | Meat Whiplash | ||
| 3. | Get Up And Use Me | ||
| 4. | Everything's Roses | ||
| 5. | Big Gold Dream | ||
| 6. | Plastic Gift | ||
| 7. | Sympathetic Anaeshetic | ||
| 8. | Discord | ||
| 9. | New Thing In Cartons | ||
| 10. | Hungry Beat | ||
| 11. | Lubricate Your Living Room Part 1 | ||
| 12. | Lubricate Your Living Room Part 2 | ||
| 13. | Get Up And Use Me (Version) | ||
| 14. | Sympathetic Anaestetic (Version) | ||
| 15. | New Thing In Cartons (Version) | ||
| 16. | Plastic Gift (Reprise) |
