CRUELTY Presents:
Artist...: Topaz Rags
Album....: The Crown Center
Label....: Not Not Fun Records
Size.....: 14,3 MB
Source...: Vinyl
Playtime.: 10:34 min
Genre....: Psychedelic Rock
Release..: Jul-27-2010
Encoder..: LAME V3.97 -V2 --Vbr-New
Quality..: avgkbps 44.1Hz Joint-Stereo
Track List:
01 04:52 Crown Center
02 05:42 You Go On
Release Notes:
West Coast ghost squad Topaz Rags stalk back into the
deadlights with a fresh vinyl single, their first new
material since the Capricorn Born Again LP. Recorded in
the heart of winter in a room with one blue light bulb,
"The Crown Center" is pure nightprowler music: quaking
bass, grime-jazz keys, dusty drums, witch choirs
floating through the smog and into sleeping homes with
the power lines cut. The sound of crime to come. The
flip ("You Go On") slips deeper into the psych-psycho
psyche, a bleached-brain riff-rhythm grinding away
endlessly while voices and electric piano stabs arc
across the stereo field, raining ash. A grimmer twist on
the Topaz formula, the dreamerÆs dream turned dark. 33
RPM 7 inches of variously colored vinyl in hand-
silkscreened cardstock sleeves. Edition of 345.