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General | Oct 2007

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2007-10-30
Experimental collages, pieces composed from fragments of improvisations. Nothing harsh or brutal, mostly echoey samples, arranged, chill, cerebral. Incorporates organic instruments: drum, strings, guitar, bells and other percussion in addition to samplings of voice, sound sources. A couple tracks have “song-like” rhythms, structure.

1) strings, sparse drum, a brief notion or afterthought
2) chill, creepy tone with drums, sampled buried melodies and a low drone
3) looped samples, echoey, bursts of tones
4) brief, slightly melodic tone and rhythm
5) spooky low tones, echoey
6) doomy slow plod rhythm with clunky percussion for 1st ~90sec, then treated voice and more creepiness, goes through chill parts, drony ones, disparate
7) chill droney looped tone with passages of manipulated voice
8) chill, bells, quiet strings, voice, collage-like grows louder toward end
9) bells, quiet
10) brief, some things put together
11) brief, mild melody in samples, voice
12) electro rhythm, chill midpaced with swirling electronics and tones
13) quiet fade-in, slow to build drone with spooky feel, percussion
14) samples abound, collage, spooky dark feel overall
15) deep low drone, chill
16) off kilter percussion/beat, bursts of other percussion, tones

Recent airplay

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Charting

2007-11-04 — 2008-01-06 Classical/Experimental
Week EndingAirplays
Dec 2 1
Nov 18 2

Track listing

1. Micha
2. The Rotted Stick That Screeches Lying
3. Hollerei
4. Fish Build
5. In Advance Of The Broken Arc
6. Cord-War Creeper
7. Sliver-Fuse
8. Shadow Book Of Flowers
9. Illustrious And Unknown
10. The Hostile Powers Have Left Us
11. Diesel-Stammer
12. The War Against...
13. The Frost That Kills The Germs Of Laissez-Faire
14. The Wild Wasps Of Summer Blood
15. Viaducts Break Ranks
16. The Lighting Gas