Sightings / City Of Straw
Album: City Of Straw   Collection:General
Artist:Sightings   Added:May 2010
Label:Jagjaguwar  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2010-05-30 Pull Date: 2010-08-01 Charts: Classical/Experimental
Week Ending: Jul 18 Jul 11 Jul 4 Jun 27 Jun 13 Jun 6
Airplays: 1 1 1 2 1 2

Recent Airplay
1. Apr 14, 2016: radio seven
City Of Straw
4. Jul 01, 2010: orangeasm
Jabber Queens
2. Jul 14, 2010: Brownian Motion
Hush
5. Jun 26, 2010: lost and found
Saccharine Traps
3. Jul 10, 2010: Music Casserole
Tar And Pine
6. Jun 23, 2010: Brownian Values
Saccharine Traps

Album Review
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2010-05-25
Sollid hipster noise/electronic rock from NYC. Veers from arty electronics to bashout noise rock. Way too cool for your mom, even though she blew the Butthole Surfers while on acid, “back in the day”. Should come with a surgeon generals warning that it may cause roommate abandonment, landlord eviction, girlfriend leaving, irreconcilable differences/divorce. Fans of Throbbing Gristle, early Cabaret Voltaire, Hair Police, Load Records, KK Rampage, Brick on rollerskates, head injuries.


1) starts with blippy electronic, very minimal and chill for a minute then crunchy epic noise/industrial plod beat onslaught with distraught swallowed vocals
2) mashed up frenetic but ploddy simultaneously, for the wicked and beyond repair
3) slow weirdness, heavy, sick noise, doesn’t disappoint nor bore, electronoise the way its supposed to be, ebbs and flows
4) noise rock: rockin stuff with a sick beat, loud guitar, screamo distorto vocals
5) minimal electronic blippiness to begin, develops a beat, then a lovely narcotic flow somehow, like an angry Flying Saucer Attack after a bottle of tequila with drunken lyrics/vocals
6) bashout electronoise rock, holy smokes!!
7) an evil tone, buzzsaw guitar that eviscerates beelzebub herself (the fake blonde one), urgent, pensive and bad bad bad
8) rock, as in a “real” band feel, drums etc, a good bashout fun filled extravaganza of passion

Track Listing
1. Tar And Pine   5. We All Amplify
2. Jabber Queens   6. Weehawken
3. City Of Straw   7. Hush
4. Saccharine Traps   8. Sky Above Mud Below