Godspeed the Vortex

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Godspeed the Vortex
Studio album by Trumans Water
Released 1993
Genre Indie rock
Label Way Out Sound
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Godspeed the Vortex is an album by Trumans Water. It was released on vinyl in 1993 and on CD in 1994 (with bonus tracks) by Negative Way Out Records, and is the second in a series of three "Godspeed" albums, all featuring improvised music. (The other improvised albums are Godspeed the Static and Godspeed the Hemorrhage; Godspeed the Punchline contains full-blown, studio-recorded songs). David Sprague of Trouser Press said of the album: "Riddled with intriguingly abrasive guitar figures that apply Eastern modality ("Syrup Is Tangled") and post-Sharrock prolapse ("True-Star Down"), the album shifts from ambient to demanding with pinpoint precision", [2] while Allmusic's Skip Jansen described it as "Eleven stabs of ecstatic lo-fi noise and avant-rock moves". [1]

Trumans Water is an indie rock band from San Diego, California formed in 1991. They have released over a dozen albums over their career, on which they collaborated with acts in genre, including Azalia Snail, Chan Marshall and Thurston Moore.

Godspeed the Punchline is an LP by Trumans Water. It was released in January 1994 by Homestead Records in the United States and Elemental Records in the UK. This album was preceded by three other "Godspeed" albums--Godspeed the Static, Godspeed the Vortex and Godspeed the Hemorrhage--all of which featured improvised, lo-fi music. Godspeed the Punchline can probably be considered the proper, studio follow-up to Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass. It is the last studio album recorded with Glen Galloway before he left to form Soul-Junk. The album was described as "eighteen short blasts of negasonic tumult" by David Sprague of Trouser Press, while Mark Jenkins of The Washington Post stated that the songs "can wander aimlessly or suddenly turn on the siren and race straight to their destination".

<i>Trouser Press</i> American music magazine

Trouser Press was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow Who fan Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press". Publication of the magazine ceased in 1984; the unexpired portion of mail subscriptions was completed by Rolling Stone sister publication Record, which itself folded in 1985. Trouser Press has continued to exist in various formats.

Track listing

  1. "Total X-Stasis" - 0:32
  2. "Odor is Free" - 9:20
  3. "Syrup is Tangled" - 4:01
  4. "Swordfish in the Trees" - 6:57
  5. "Ominous Blips Fore" - 3:38
  6. "True-Star Down" - 3:37
  7. "New Rupture" - 2:16
  8. "Soup of Volts" - 2:01
  9. "New Rapture" - 0:24
  10. "Ominous Blips Aft" - 4:13
  11. "Freon" - 1:48

CD-only bonus tracks

  1. "Wayout No. 7" - 11:38
  2. "The 20 Minute Song" - 19:38

Track listing notes: "Wayout No. 7" is the catalog number for the Jubileeee 7" EP (1992), also released by Negative Way Out Records. This track contains all the music from that release.

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References

  1. 1 2 Jansen, Skip "Godspeed the Vortex Review", Allmusic , Macrovision Corporation, retrieved 21 November 2009
  2. Sprague, David "Trumans Water", Trouser Press , retrieved 21 November 2009