Bambi's Dilemma

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Bambi's Dilemma
Bambi's Dilemma albumart.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 24, 2007
Genre Hardcore punk, noise rock
Length34:57
Label A-Zap
Melt-Banana chronology
13 Hedgehogs
(2005)
Bambi's Dilemma
(2007)
Melt-Banana Lite Live Ver 0.0
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Drowned in Sound (8/10) [2]

Bambi's Dilemma is the sixth studio album by Melt-Banana, released on April 24, 2007. It was released on CD and vinyl. The album's title came from an incident which happened when vocalist Yasuko was driving the band's touring van in the US and hit a deer, and kept thinking about the character Bambi from the film of the same name. [3]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Spider Snipe"2:12
2."Blank Page of the Blind"2:18
3."Cracked Plaster Cast"2:13
4."Heiwaboke Crisis"1:36
5."Cat Brain Land"2:11
6."Plasma Gate Quest"1:41
7."Type: Ecco System"3:58
8."The Call of the Vague"2:04
9."Green Eyed Devil"2:24
10."Crow's Paint Brush (Color Repair)"2:39
11."T For Tone"0:32
12."Slide Down"0:49
13."Lock the Head"0:44
14."One Drop, One Life"0:55
15."In Store"0:56
16."Dog Song"1:20
17."Chain Keeper"1:22
18."Last Target On the Last Day"5:03

Audio samples

Thirty-second audio samples can be found here on AllMusic.

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Drowned in Sound review
  3. taken from the Jame-world interview with Yasuko, last accessed 02-18-08.