Eight Velvet Paintings For Helen Keller

General | Oct 2008

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2009-01-15
Super epic sustained feedback rock with a couple tracks of drone. Soaring and melodic in places. All instrumental, longish tracks. For fans of old Loop, Sunn ((O))), Swans, stuff like that. Lots of held/sustained loud guitar chords and drumming, songs don’t change much throughout, just get into a groove and go with it. But not bash-out noisey. Accessible. Great stuff.

1) epic soaring sustained, melodic and not as noisey as that might sound, long fade-out at end
2) slightly slower dronier, but still epic
3) pounding, tribal
4) Beautiful noise drone, drums never appear
5) slow mindful drums and sustain, long (15+ min) and doesn’t change much throughout
6) another mid paced one, slightly halting
7) more spacey, this one has spoken samplings on the topic of law enforcement, cops in their annoying helicopters
8) slightly plodding with minimal guitar melody

Recent airplay

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The Phoenix Descends (Sunset On Mars)
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On The WarpathMar 18, 2009
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The Dark Knight ReturnsMar 17, 2009

Charting

2009-01-18 — 2009-03-22
Week EndingAirplays
Mar 22 3
Mar 8 1
Feb 22 2
Feb 8 4
Feb 1 3
Jan 25 5

Track listing

1. The Phoenix Descends (Sunset On Mars)
2. Eating Pages Torn From The Apocrypha
3. Seven Sisters Of The Arsia Mons
4. Scenes From The Children's Crusade (The Sea Does Not Part)
5. Sand In The Gears Of Time And History
6. Taking Metaphysics For A Test Drive
7. Black Helicopters
8. Holy Ass Mountain (A Version)