Manpack Variant / Sticky Wickets
Album: Sticky Wickets   Collection:General
Artist:Manpack Variant   Added:Dec 2007
Label:Digitalis Industries  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2008-01-06 Pull Date: 2008-03-10 Charts: Classical/Experimental
Week Ending: Mar 9 Feb 24 Feb 17 Jan 20 Jan 13
Airplays: 1 1 1 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Mar 03, 2008: Emphysema For Emphasis
Flash Pumper
4. Jan 15, 2008: The Wonder Girls of Canada
Heartstream
2. Feb 18, 2008: Emphysema For Emphasis
Matted Fur
5. Jan 09, 2008: Brownian Motion
Ac Ferries
3. Feb 11, 2008: Emphysema For Emphasis
Flash Pumper

Album Review
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2008-01-02
Noise. But interesting. Varied. Not just a big harsh wall, not just reams of repetitive collage. Pieces evolve and have personality. Don’t misunderstand me though, lots of loud and painful elements. But all well done. Track 2 is long, but epic and beautiful.

1) tooth drill sound (almost), sparse blips give way to some fairly difficult collage, noise, high pitched white variety, recorded live
2) very chill low tones start as this builds into layered looping drony noisey tones, long but very worth it
3) skippy and blippy’ish, painful high freqs, noisey
4) first 2:30 is silence (or very very quiet), then looping alarm-like tone turns into distorto wall
5) high frequency quiet drone to start, then creepy droney shimmering spaciness, then a discordant miasma, the soundtrack to a suicidal anxiety breakdown, ends on a high note, a very high sustained freq.

Track Listing
1. Flash Pumper   3. Nice Face
2. Matted Fur   4. Ac Ferries
  5. Heartstream