Spindrift / West, The
Album: West, The   Collection:General
Artist:Spindrift   Added:Nov 2008
Label:Beat The World Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2009-01-25 Pull Date: 2009-03-29
Week Ending: Mar 22 Mar 15 Mar 8 Mar 1 Feb 22 Feb 15 Feb 8 Feb 1
Airplays: 1 1 1 1 2 1 5 4

Recent Airplay
1. Dec 25, 2009: The Courtesy Flush - the tiger woods holiday spectacular
The New West (Vocal Version)
4. Mar 04, 2009: Brownian Motion
The Wind
2. Mar 20, 2009: Finals Liquidation Special
The West
5. Feb 25, 2009: The Heart of KZSU
The New West (Vocal Version)
3. Mar 14, 2009: Lost and Found
The West
6. Feb 18, 2009: Brownian Motion
The New West (Vocal Version)

Album Review
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2009-01-18
Ennio Morreconi (spaghetti westerns) and psyche flavored songs. All very twangy and cool with elements of psyche and heapings of the bizarre and creative. For fans of Nick Cave and all things Spacemen 3, Love and Rockets, early Pink Floyd even. This stuff is dense and multifaceted, somewhat schitzo, and really interesting, great.

1) strange carnival/circus feeling, starts quiet but picks up
2) slow dark swingy twangy western Ennio Morricone/Nick Cave flavor, super cool
3) upbeat western gallop with spaghetti western trumpets, instrumental
4) swampy swingy bluesy with harmonica and buried vocals
5) FCCs, “shit”, very early Pink Floyd’ish psyche
6) bent waltzy Carnival/circus music, Nick Cave on acid
7) 2/4 beat, polka-like, but of course twisted
8) slow dark, halting, female vocals, picks up and ends decidedly psyche, leads right into next track
9) upbeat with an “X” rockabilly swingy punk feel
10) a swingy psyche feel, a la Love and Rockets or Spacemen 3, the harmonica really brings L&R to mind
11) relaxed loungy echoey psyche feel with casio type brushed drums and lush vocals, L&R again spring to mind
12) a somber folkie death march feel, dark, with a Celtic dark ages feel and phase shifted psychedelic vocals
13) dark bluesy swing to make Nick Cave jealous, long and mindful, with a 1 min outro that explores some Boss echo then the sound of a music box, almost an afterthought so potting down after the echo is an option (music box ends cold too)

Track Listing
1. The Isle Of Lost Souls   7. The Klezmer Song
2. The New West (Vocal Version)   8. La Noche Mas Oscura
3. Ace Coltrane   9. If You Don't Like It... (Get The Fuck Out)
4. The Wind   10. Goin' Down
5. Excrete From The Collective Subconscious   11. A Celebration Of The Human Body
6. Frozen Memories   12. The West
  13. Colts Crime