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Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2011-07-07
Collection assembled by KZSU faves Pink Priest this features music/artists way off the beaten path, what some might certainly call “bladerunnercore” and also what qualifies as dreamy pyche heavy quality Indie Rock/Pop. The gamut from garage to goth. Something really really good for everyone. (After listening all the way through I wonder if all the artists recorded using the same one room studio with the same mics and tape delays, live to 2-track even).

1) (4:30) Neon Pulse: slow fade in to dreamy ambient drone, balm
2) (1:42) Fen Paul: low fi simple toy piano and treated voice/sample, cool
3) (3:15) Cough Cool: plod in a Swans way, deep dreaminess in a Hammock/Sujo way
4) (2:58) Ela Orleans: upbeat dreamy twang guit with a pop sense, indie rock vocs kinda, lovely
5) (3:11) Blessure Grave: 90’s brit dream rock feel, upbeat
6) (2:14) Deep Sht: thrashy psyche noise pop
7) (1:59) Cloud Nothings: Pop, indie upbeat peppy pop
8) (2:57) Ale Mania: straightforward echoed vocaled garage rock, upbeat
9) (2:50) Dunes: airy dreamy girl vocal heavy, feedback distant guitar
10) (3:00) Ancient Crux: tribal 80’s goth surf cure feel, instrumental
11) (3:00) Twin Lion: really cool electrodrum 80’s feel and echoey guitar
12) (3:22) Beaters: upbeat urgent
13) (3:13) Lee Noble: simple low fi indie pop
14) (2:33) A Grave With No Name: simple offkey echoey girl pop, slow with jangle bells
15) (2:47) Terror Bird: simple upbeat synth/piano pop, fem vocs
16) (3:09) Norse Horse: cumbia sampled super trippy exotica
17) (4:28) Dirty Beaches: dark simple electro and vocal delivery a la Suicide
18) (3:02) Heavy Hawaii: dreamy waltzy
19) (3:12) Badtimeexpress: triplet casio drums, low fi vocs, melodic minimal pop
20) (3:47) Dead Gaze: jangly epic psyche pop
21) (3:36) Jeans Wilder: very low fi, simple vocs and guitar
22) (1:51) Fluker Love: noisey slow casio low fi
23) (2:44) Nude Boy: rocking girl garage, echoey righteous (Meow Alert!)
24) (3:22) Pink Priest: wow, I forgot how good these guys are, super cool creepy ambient illbient
25) (6:32) Taped Hiss: tape manipulated ambient synth, jarring but interesting ENDS WITH 3:37 REMAINING then with 3:17 remaining a “hidden track”(?) appears, low fi indie pop sung in foreign tongue (I think

Recent airplay

A Simple Man (Wishes & Daydreams)
Home FreeJul 11, 2013
Handle
Brownian MotionSep 07, 2011
Flower Reading
couchsurfingAug 29, 2011
A Simple Man (Wishes & Daydreams)
lost and foundAug 28, 2011
Kestrels
lost and foundAug 21, 2011
Handle, Can't Stay Awake

Charting

2011-07-17 — 2011-09-18
Week EndingAirplays
Sep 11 1
Sep 4 2
Aug 28 1
Aug 14 1
Aug 7 1
Jul 31 4
Jul 24 3

Track listing

1. Kestrels
2. Wheel And A Chime
3. Flower Reading
4. She Who Could Bin You
5. Stranger In The House
6. Never Say Never
7. Can't Stay Awake
8. Dc Rails
9. Handle
10. Colossal Debt
11. High Life
12. Fishage
13. Terror High
14. Sofia
15. Shame On Your Side
16. Shooodikids
17. Coast To Coast
18. Philly Games
19. Blooming Trail
20. A Simple Man (Wishes & Daydreams)
21. Valentine
22. Stay The Night
23. D.I Dad
24. I'd Rise From The Dead For You
25. Out At Sea, A Tiny Cat And Me