Gettin' Personial

Clinton Machine
Fluorescent Friends
General | Nov 2010

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2010-11-12
Noise rock, sludgy at times, rocking, dissonant, upbeat. Low fi fun, blissful, not too serious. Distorto buried male vocals, desperate guitars, pounding drums. Elements of grunge even. Sounds like: Swans as a Nirvana tribute band with members of Sonic Youth and The Swirlies using Neutral Milk Hotel’s equipment but The Melvin’s amplifiers, and everyone is just about to OD on heroin, including the audience. Capice?

No FCCs. Every fucking track is a masterpiece.

1) starts off innocent with low fi acoustic strumming but then implodes into a huge dissonant Swans meets Swirlies meets Neutral Milk Hotel upbeat bent rock
2) big sick rock, sounds slowed, perfection
3) slower plodding, with arpeggio/looping licks, fuzzed out blessed out vocals, hola mackerel!
4) head nodding dissonance, killer noise guitar, man!
5) messy guitar with tambourine, rockin
6) sludgey with weird meter, strange messy, ends cold
7) slower, strummy feel, dissonance remains, less balls to the wall
8) slow heavy wall of near drone heavy rock, narco bliss rock
9) guitar, distorted, sounds like the guy laying on his back on his couch, with the lights off, meditating and grooving on one chord/tone, totally low fi with volume fluctuations, a crappy cord shorting out, totally stoned

Recent airplay

Thing 2
Music CasseroleJan 22, 2011
Sun Dog, Gemini, Thing 2, Good News
meowJan 18, 2011
Thing 2
Ghost TreesJan 17, 2011
Sun Dog
meowJan 11, 2011
Good News, Thing 2
abra's airwavesJan 06, 2011
Good News
abra's airwavesDec 16, 2010

Charting

2010-11-21 — 2011-01-23
Week EndingAirplays
Jan 23 3
Jan 16 1
Jan 9 1
Dec 19 1
Dec 12 2
Dec 5 4
Nov 28 1

Track listing

1. Thing 2
2. Good News
3. Grate Expectations
4. Gemini
5. Thrasyh
6. What
7. Songula
8. Sun Dog
9. The Cat's Meow