Mystery Palace - Flags Forward
ARTIST.....: Mystery Palace
TITLE......: Flags Forward
LABEL......: Zod Records
URL........: www.mystery-palace.com
RIP DATE...: May-16-2007
STORE DATE.: Apr-27-2007
GENRE......: Electronic
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 49,4 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Rebelize 04:12
02 - Every Hour 03:53
03 - Nascar Survivor 03:44
04 - You And Me 03:00
05 - Two-Way Stranger 02:43
06 - What Are You Whispering? 04:04
07 - You're A Whore 03:47
08 - Free Ride 05:02
09 - I Can't Wait 03:46
10 - Stepchild (CD Bonus Track) 02:36
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36:47 min
Release Notes:
www.zodrecords.com
www.myspace.com/mysterypalace
There's no guide or manual for what Mystery Palace does, no easy
clockwork formula hidden in the Minneapolis-based trio's agenda.
Sequenced electronics-plus-live instruments offer a tough enough
row to hoe on their own; when the former come from a pair of
heavily circuit-bent Yamaha mid-pro keyboards, opportunities for
disaster multiply exponentially.
Luckily, so do opportunities for the sorts of disastrous successes
the band enjoys regularly, largely thanks to founder Food Team's
aptitude for riding his profusely toggle-switxhed brainchildren's
outputs like a porn star. Granted, the artist sometimes still
known as Ryan Olcott has had practice galore, having built and
mastered the instruments with the sort of diligence usually
enountered only in fantasy novels and large-scale government
operations. Only after countless hours of woodshedding and a
healthy slew of live dates did he enlist ex-Poor Line Condition
bassist James Buckley and veteran Vertiform drummer Joey Van
Phillips in what must have seemed like a very Quixotic endeavor at
the time.
Olcott got lucky. Not only does his rhythm section provide the
perfect complement to the remarkably varied profusion of colors
and textures he wrenches from his Frankeninstruments (imagine an
exceedingly fluid Warp + Mego fusion); like Olcott, Buckley and
Phillips are actually capable of responding to the digital
critters' powerful surprise-generating capacity so gracefully,
you'd never guess the extent of their vigilance. Or maybe that
part is all a shuck of sorts. Lately, the whole operation has
proceeded so smoothly onstage and in the studio (where the band
has proceeded well beyond improvisation, recording elegantly
structured songs, complete with vocals) that you can't help but
wonder if the keyboards, having grown minds of their own, are
merely doing their best to keep the fellas alert. God knows, they
are.