ARTIST: Goddamn Electric Bill
TITLE: Swallowed By the Machines
LABEL: 99X/10 Records & Tapes
GENRE: Electronic
BITRATE: 186kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 40m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-09-30
RIP DATE: 2007-03-08
Track List
----------
1. Lost In The Zoo 4:07
2. Our History, Part 1 3:46
3. No Sign Of Ringing 2:51
4. Witching Hour 4:51
5. May Fourteenth 4:26
6. March At Dawn 4:30
7. Before 1:45
8. Opa 4:22
9. Looking Up At Down 4:44
10. The Nuclear Family 5:11
Release Notes:
NOTE: The other release of this was a MUSiQ failure. Here's the real CD. It's
actually really good. Check it out!
A propulsive blend of ambient electronic and post-rock music. For fans of: Sigur
Ros, Explosions in the Sky, Kraftwerk, Air, The Album Leaf, and Pinback.
The sounds of Goddamn Electric Bill were never meant to leave Jason TorbertÆs
bedroom. But the one-man band, a propulsive blend of ambient electronic and
post-rock music, made its way out to the world anyway.
In its short lifetime, Goddamn Electric Bill has already been nominated for a
San Diego Music Award, created a stir in the MySpace musical community, released
a debut full-length called Swallowed by the Machines on 99X/10 Records (run by
former Cure keysman Roger OÆDonnell) and been featured in San Diego CityBEAT and
Music Matters Magazine. But Torbert isnÆt new to the musical arena.
TorbertÆs suburban childhood was spent learning violin and trombone before he
took off for University of Oregon, where he studied ethnomusicology. It was at
University of Oregon that Torbert began his seven-year stint as the bassist for
a popular punk outfit called Cigar. The band eventually signed to a label run by
Pennywise guitarist Fletcher Dragge and toured internationally before calling it
quits. He tried his luck at a few other projects, including one band that
recorded with At The Drive-In, Sparta drummer Tony Hajjar and signed to At The
Drive-In, Sparta frontman Jim WardÆs label, Restart Records, but Torbert quickly
figured out that the band life wasnÆt for him.
It was the sounds Torbert made on his own û from bass, guitar, keys, Rhodes,
sitar, mbira, percussion and bagpipes û that turned into Goddamn Electric Bill.
And it is those sounds that continue to cause a stir.