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Artist: Triclops!
Album: Out Of Africa
Label: Alternative Tentacles
Playtime: 39:00 min
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
URL: http://triclopsband.com
Rip date: 2010-02-25
Street date: 2008-03-25
Size: 68.31 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 233 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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Sci-fi bristles with cautionary tales of gene-splicing and its freakish
consequences, but in an Alternative Tentacles tome, "freakish" is a desirable
trait. Triclops!, a result of SF Bay Area inter-band splicing (featuring
members of Bottles and Skulls and the Lower Forty-Eight fortified by
personnel from AT stalwarts Victims Family and Fleshies), assaults the public
with the best acid punk around today. Don't let their pedigree fool you:
Triclops! turns the dial down on the bellicose punk/hardcore you might
expect, instead opting for meandering yet tension-filled psychedelic epics.
The seven songs on Out of Africa, their first full-length, are reminiscent of
the golden hits from the 1990s Touch and Go or Amphetamine Reptile catalogs,
tweaked out on the exhilarating paranoia typical of America in the early
aughts. Distorted vocals, oscillating bass lines, and jittery guitars form a
nervous, seasick swath over the plodding drums. Songs unfurl into worlds of
their own with byzantine lyrics--the lament of an Iraqi museum curator in
one, an ode to the botfly (a tropical parasite) in another--while the music
explores variations in tone and urgency. Positive reviews followed their EP
on Sick Room and picture-disc 7-inch on GSL; expect gushing praises for this
fine morsel of acid punk-prog.
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01. March Of The Half-Babies ( 6:32)
02. Iraqi Curator ( 5:33)
03. Freedom Tickler ( 5:04)
04. Duende War (Out Of Africa) ( 2:56)
05. Cassava ( 6:55)
06. Secret 93 ( 5:51)
07. Lovesong For The Botfly ( 6:09)
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