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L.A. Lungs
Debacle Records
General | May 2011

Reviews

awyeh
Reviewed 2011-11-27
L.A. Lungs are on Debacle Records and had a great album on our a-file this summer. This album, their debut, features lots of slow, dark, distorted, pretty, haunting music. Play at nighttime or on Wednesdays. Sounds like cassette tapes. Lots of tracks open quietly; no vocals just spoken samples, no FCCs.

1. (6:32) Digital preying mantis transmissions, repeated vocal samples in the middle
2 (5:07) Nice hummy drony ambient synth track
*3. (4:01) Electric guitar plucked underwater, seagulls, fishing instructional voices
4 (2:29) Sad, loud organ/accordian sounds
5 (5:45) Snarling darkness; a man's voice echoes around noise
6 (11:24) Bells and guitar harmonics looped everywhere, baseball card in a bike wheel provides percussion. Plucked strings, accordions, and wooden train whistles too. More straightforward, loud, dreamy video game ambient near end.
7 (9:58) Pensive; mosquitos, bagpipes, cash registers, flutes, synths, 4 AM
*8 (5:28) Sunrise music but maybe it's rainy; a return to the opener. Least weird track on the album, but really pretty

Recent airplay

We're All Here To Have Fun And Catch Fish
Lost VersesApr 27, 2012
1971, Battlestar Grammatica
Songs: CantanJan 27, 2012
Battlestar Grammatica
Ghost TreesJan 23, 2012
Battlestar Grammatica
drone zoneJan 10, 2012
We're All Here To Have Fun And Catch Fish
Songs: CantanJan 07, 2012
1971

Charting

2011-12-04 — 2012-02-05 Classical/Experimental
Week EndingAirplays
Jan 29 2
Jan 15 1
Jan 8 2
Jan 1 1
Dec 18 2
Dec 11 2

Track listing

1. 1971
2. This Is How To Talk To Octopi
3. We're All Here To Have Fun And Catch Fish
4. I Don't Deserve Dessert
5. John Updike
6. A Nibble From A Palm/Ammonia Hangglider
7. My Other Car Is The Greater Vehicle
8. Battlestar Grammatica