Come And Melt Your Face Off

Red Electric Rainbow
Sacred Phrases
General | Nov 2011

Reviews

HYPRK
Reviewed 2011-11-29
More great stuff from the always imaginative Sacred Phrases, this time from synthesizer wizard Daniel D. Smith, AKA “the facemelter.” When not cranking out awesome tapes, he runs Neon Blossom Records and Digital Acid. He also puts on Chicago’s Neon Marshmallow Festival, dedicated to “advanced audio, progressive electronics, new music media, and alternative club music.” All his stuff has great sci-fi spacey vibes, indicative of a childhood saturated with laser tag, strobe lights, and cracking open glowsticks to huff their innards. This release is hands-down one of his greatest.

FCC CLEAN

RIYL: Cruise Family, Megabats, Konntinent, Lunar Miasma, Tim Hecker

1. (3:41) Dark spiraling synth riffs peppered with great manipulations and scrambled textures.
2. (4:39) Dazzling, white-hot synthesizer manipulation
3. (2:17) More keyboard manipulation, this time in the form of deep resonating pillars of sound, radiant and resonating.
4. (4:20) Slow-building keyboard arpeggios. Nice sun-bleached vibes.
5. (15:24) “Mayan Forest.” A perfect name for a perfect track: thudding bongo riffs resonating deep into the jungle, laying down a lulling background while Smith experiments with a variety of breathtaking electronic effects—trickling, swaying, and scurrying electronic jams all swimming in and out of the darkness.


Recent airplay

Mayan Forrest
Come And Melt Your Face 1
maximum entropy iiFeb 02, 2012
Black Drifts
maximum entropyFeb 01, 2012
Come And Melt Your Face 1
SynthesisJan 22, 2012
Mayan Forrest
Black Drifts
fake orangeasmJan 10, 2012

Charting

2011-12-04 — 2012-02-05
Week EndingAirplays
Feb 5 2
Jan 29 1
Jan 15 2
Jan 8 3
Dec 25 1
Dec 18 1
Dec 11 3

Track listing

1. Ripped Appart
2. Come And Melt Your Face 1
3. Come And Melt Your Face 2
4. Black Drifts
5. Mayan Forrest