Country: Australia
Genre(s): Psychedelic, Retro Prog, Hard Rock
Label: Flightless Records FLT-033 (AUS), Heavenly HVNLP140 (EU),
ATO Records ATO0400 (US)
Format: CD, cassette, vinyl, digital
Release date: June 23, 2017
Tracklist:
1. A New World (0:57)
2. Altered Beast I (2:23)
3. Alter Me I (0:45)
4. Altered Beast II (4:28)
5. Alter Me II (1:25)
6. Altered Beast III (2:14)
7. Alter Me III (1:26)
8. Altered Beast IV (5:10)
9. Life / Death (0:59)
10. Some Context (0:16)
11. The Reticent Raconteur (1:05)
12. The Lord Of Lightning (5:07)
13. The Balrog (4:29)
14. The Floating Fire (1:54)
15. The Acrid Corpse (1:00)
16. Welcome To An Altered Future (0:55)
17. Digital Black (2:46)
18. Han-Tyumi The Confused Cyborg (2:21)
19. Soy-Protein Munt Machine (0:30)
20. Vomit Coffin (2:19)
21. Murder Of The Universe (4:09)
Total Time 46:38
Line-up:
Stu Mackenzie – vocals, Hagström F12 guitar, Roland Juno-60 synthesizer, Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer, Mellotron flute, Mellotron choir, Yamaha Reface YC organ, Fender Mustang bass, Natural Reader UK Charles
Michael Cavanagh – '62 Maxwin drum kit, '61 Yamaha Tiger Red Swirl kit
Joey Walker – Yamaha SG-3 guitar, Yamaha Reface YC organ, Roland JX-3P synthesizer, Roland Juno-60 synthesizer
Ambrose Kenny-Smith – Hohner Special 20 harmonica, Yamaha Reface YC organ
Cook Craig – Rickenbacker 620 guitar
Lucas Skinner – Fender Mustang bass
With
Leah Senior – spoken word (1-9, 11-15)
Description/Reviews:
Bleeding into soft focus by way of a bed of Carpenter-esque synths and the soothing opening words of the album’s first narrator Leah Senior ..., the album’s first chapter, ‘Altered Beast 1-4’ aims straight up the jugular. A progged-out tetralogy conjuring the hectic hardcore thrust of last year’s Nonagon Infinity, it sees harmonica, synth, mellotron and a slew of shapeshifting rhythmic patterns congeal in a swirl that stems as much from the more cosmically inclined highpoints of Hawkwind and Amon Düül II as it does, say, Yes and Rush at their most insistent.
Read the full review by Brian Coney at
thequietus.com
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