Rats On Rafts: Excerpts From Chapter 3: The Mind Runs A Net Of Rabbit Paths on LP
Excerpts From Chapter 3: The Mind Runs A Net Of Rabbit Paths
LP
LP (Long Play)
The good old vinyl record.
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- Label:
- Fire
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2021
- Item number:
- 10316669
- UPC/EAN:
- 0809236158710
- Release date:
- 5.3.2021
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The third album from Dutch punk-laced noiseniks adds new maturity and a conceptual feel that pulls the extremes of their sound together. A psyche-fuelled journey into the id punctuated with rhythmic kabuki modal mood swings, thunderstorms, digital beeps, traffic noise, and just plain old beautiful cacophonous reverb-drenched sound when needed. The 'third chapter' refers to the last five years that the Dutch band have spent creating their "difficult" third album. Each song spins a yarn; there are plagues, dreams, wind and fire, 'mythical' characters, and the search for the secret government warehouse. Lead single, Tokyo Music Experience, resonates with a conveyor belt-propelled modal guitar, reflecting the halcyon days of Japanese super-productivity; a mesmerising mantra, infected with news bulletin on-the-hour bleeps underlining its time-sensitive nature; a pristine super-commercial anthem to drive loyalty and reinforce solidarity with the party!
Having been described as creating "underground noise with a bracing, warped pop appeal" (Mojo), their new album is a coming-of-age post-classic with a unique worldview - inspired by Van Dyke Parks (Song Cycle) Scott Walker (3 & 4), Moondog (Elpmas), White Noise (An Electric Storm) and Beach Boys (Smile). If their previous effort (Tape Hiss) was their very own sketch of a sketch for an incomplete concept album, a noisy reaction to their previous life, then 'Excerpts From Chapter 3..', with all its interlaced intricacies, is the realisation of their transition from punk-spiked-pop to psyche-pop protagonists. Evolving, testing, infectious...
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Tracklisting
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The audio samples belong to the article Rats On Rafts: Excerpts From Chapter 3: The Mind Runs A Net Of Rabbit Paths (CD). The track list may differ for this item.
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1 Prologue: Rain
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2 A Trail of Wind and Fire
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3 Second Born Child
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4 Tokyo Music Experience
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5 The Rise and Fall of the Plague
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6 Another Year
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7 Fragments
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8 The Disappearance of Dr. Duplicate
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9 Excerpt Taken from Chapter 3
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10 Where is My Dream?
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11 Part One: the Long Drought
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12 Part Two: Crossing the Desert
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13 Epilogue: Big Poisonous Shadows
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