Metal Rouge / Trails
Album: Trails   Collection:General 12"
Artist:Metal Rouge   Added:Jun 2010
Label:Emerald Cocoon  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2010-07-25 Pull Date: 2010-09-12
Week Ending: Sep 12 Aug 29 Aug 1
Airplays: 1 1 3

Recent Airplay
1. Mar 30, 2011: Brownian Motion
The Sunshine Path
4. Oct 14, 2010: orangeasm
The Sunshine Path
2. Mar 19, 2011: mew
The Sad Song (666), Ripe Century
5. Sep 11, 2010: Kremit Across Atherton
The Sunshine Path
3. Feb 15, 2011: anti-heroine
Ripe Century
6. Aug 28, 2010: Bloodstains Across Atherton-Weinerhunds with Sick Knobs
The Sad Song (666)

Album Review
Ragnar of Ravensfjord
Reviewed 2010-07-23

[33 RPM on both sides]

Way gone, trippy, loose psych with rumbling bass and woozy vocals. Then other the half of the time they’re noisy & chaotic not unlike Keiji Haino. Otherwise, file near Bardo Pond, Acid Mother’s Temple. Really well done and a good record to lose yourself in.

SIDE 1

((((1)))) Slow bass rumbles, occasional guitar chords, distant vocals. Starts getting louder in the middle then chords become loose & spindly – almost improv style.
(((2))) Kind odd, slow, warbly minimalist “improv psych” with added guitar wank near the end. Kinda works and kinda doesn’t.

SIDE 2

(((1))) High pitched, tweaked & treated guitars, random dive-bombers with sporadic percussion. Distorted to hell vocals sorta like some Haino release. If this was Japanese it would already be on KFJC, 6 times a day.
(((((2))))) Laid back, mellow strums, neck runs. Eventually gets louder but still carries that epic psych trip feeling. Really good “slow burner/come down” tune until the mondo guitar flashback wails kick in the 2nd half. “Harsh reality maaaan!”

Track Listing
1. The Sunshine Path   3. Ripe Century
2. May 1971   4. The Sad Song (666)