Half Control

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Half Control
Six Finger Satellite - Half Control.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 26, 2009
Recorded2001 at The Parlour, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Genre Noise rock
Length30:28
Label Load
Six Finger Satellite chronology
Law of Ruins
(1998)
Half Control
(2009)
A Good Year for Hardness
(2009)
Professional ratings
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Half Control is the fifth album by Six Finger Satellite, released on May 26, 2009 through Load Records. It comprises material the band recorded in 2001 before disbanding shortly after.

Six Finger Satellite are an American synthesizer-based post-hardcore band, based in Providence, Rhode Island.

Load Records was an American experimental music-oriented independent record label based out of Providence, Rhode Island. "Load Records might possibly be in possession of the world's most challenging record roster," writes Mark Hensch of Thrash Pit. "Rounded out by some of the most uncompromising noise/avant-garde/experimental artists in all of music's sordid underbelly, Load has always prided itself on remaining outside of common taste and maybe even common sense."

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Six Finger Satellite.

No.TitleLength
1."Thrown Out"1:55
2."Herpe Gimme Strength"2:05
3."Artificial Light"5:13
4."Half Control"5:01
5."A Tighter Passage"2:18
6."Live Legs"4:07
7."Long Time No C"2:01
8."Bored Oracle"7:46

Personnel

Six Finger Satellite

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References

  1. Deming, Mark. "Half Control". Allmusic. Retrieved June 8, 2013.