CD
one
1. instrumental (3.06)
2. smoke/mirrors (4.51)
3. burnt (1.00)
4. suspect yr. neighbour (3.11)
5. devolve (4.52)
6. waiting for (1.57)
7. reprise (0.39)
8. how we got here (4.40)
9. incentive (3.42)
10. faceless (2.16)
11. retrograde steps (3.19)
12. jephthah (2.19)
13. uncertainty song (6.18)
14. you know (0.46)
CD two
1. long drifting (6.30)
2. run for prophet (3.36)
3. bridges (1.35)
4. pretty burn (4.47)
5. fired (3.55)
6. matador (0.41)
7. chapman baxter (2.39)
8. demands (1.53)
9. waste (2.16)
10. path of least resistance (2.35)
11. forty-four (2.30)
12. what i was told (3.35)
13. rotor (1.26)
14. taking (10.06) |
Ah,
the double album. These are solely the preserve of
self-indulgent prog-rock wankers with more solos than
sense. Except in the case of 'Mellon Collie', and post-rock,
where it's okay. This isn't really an attempt to be
the Shalabi Effect. And definitely not Pink Floyd.
It just happened that the way I recorded I ended up
with about 60 minutes of songs and I didn't wanna make
any more 60-minute CDs, and in any case I didn't wanna
hassle Tina for another cover.So, I held onto the tracks
till i had 28 and 90 minutes (ish). And then Tina didn't
wanna make a cover anyway, cos she claimed to like
this makeshift thing I made out of the same photo I
used for the 'x-ten ep' cover. It's okay, I guess.
I put a couple of these tracks online. I think the
only ones there are 'instrumental' and 'suspect yr
neighbour', both of which got pretty good receptions
among the select few who are bored and/or gullible
enough to spend some time downloading my noodlings.
'instrumental' is a kinda sweet harmonic thing which
ends with what sounds like Mum's pet mice wrestling
inside a metal biscuit tin. And 'suspect your neighbour'
is a simple melody thingy. You know what I mean. It
sounds like Metallica roughly buggering Destiny's Child
while the Aphex Twin throws dancing fish onto them
from a cherry picker. Well, it doesn't. But wouldn't
it be cool if it DID?
This CD sees the return of loud bits. But they're all
in 'taking', which I helpfully put as the final track
so you can stop it before you hear it. Yay!
This is one of the very few CDs I've done where I bothered
to come up with an album title instead of just taking
one of the track titles. But hey, I figured you could
have fun trying to find out what the concept is. Art,
dude.
Random facts: 'long drifting' is my favourite. 'burnt'
is a reprise of 'pretty burn' played backwards. There
is a secret track at the end of the first CD! ClichÈ-tastic!
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