Murk Time Cruiser

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Murk Time Cruiser
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Studio album by
aMiniature
Released1995
Genre Indie punk
Label Restless [1]
Producer John Lee, Mark Trombino
AMiniature chronology
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(1994)		Murk Time Cruiser
(1995)

Murk Time Cruiser is the second album by the American band aMiniature. [2] It was released in 1995. [3] [4] The band promoted the album by touring with Seam, Versus, and Venus Cures All, bands, like aMiniature, that included Asian-American members. [5]

Contents

Production

The band's equipment was stolen prior to the recording sessions; a sheriff in El Cajon, California, was able to help aMiniature recover some of it. [6] Mark Monteith joined on second guitar. [7] Drive Like Jehu's Mark Trombino played drums on the album. [8] Murk Time Cruiser was produced by John Lee and Trombino. [9]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [9]
The San Diego Union-Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]

Trouser Press noted that frontman John Lee "continues to explore unusual guitar textures that eschew simple effects like feedback and distortion pedals for unusual fingerings and unexpected chord changes ... But no matter how ambitious the music, aMiniature remains a punk-rock band at heart." [11] The Chicago Reader thought that "Lee frantically spits out words, presenting the band’s inherent tunefulness in choppy, tension-creating fragments." [12] The Arizona Daily Star called the songs a melding of "avant-garde, punk and pop music," writing that the album is marked by "crashing passion and high velocity." [13]

The Washington Post wrote: "Prickly and jumpy, aMiniature's Murk Time Cruiser reinvigorates the strategies of early '80s punk-funk." [8] The Orange County Register called the songs "brilliant music," writing that "what makes aMiniature ... so special is the way the group layers various guitar riffs and melodies atop a usually fast and driving rhythm." [14] The San Diego Union-Tribune deemed it "ultimately a bastardized blend of the hyperkinetic soundtracks of sci-fi video games and the (relatively) happy, boppin' punk rock of the '80s." [10]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."He, the Bad Feeler" 
2."Peddler's Talk" 
3."Bored Spy" 
4."Maximum Accident" 
5."Secret Enemy" 
6."The Prizefighters" 
7."Signer's Strut" 
8."Murk Time Cruiser" 
9."Flux is Flux" 
10."Long Live Soul Miner" 

References

  1. ↑ "NAIRD's '95 Indie Award nominees". Billboard. Vol. 108, no. 19. May 11, 1996. p. 50.
  2. ↑ "Aminiature Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More". AllMusic. Archived from the original on September 17, 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
  3. ↑ DeLuca, Dean (December 24, 1995). "Many Fine Records That Deserved a Wider Audience". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. M8.
  4. ↑ Masterson, Andrew (August 4, 1995). "Short Cuts". Entertainment Guide. The Age. p. 8.
  5. ↑ DeLuca, Dean (May 4, 1995). "Asian American Rock Is on a Roll, He Says". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. E1.
  6. ↑ Doherty, Brendan (April 20, 1995). "Don't Do the Crime If You Can't Do the Time". The Albuquerque Tribune. p. D18.
  7. ↑ Allen, Robert (June 28, 1995). "aMiniature Murk Time Cruiser". The Rocket. p. 22.
  8. 1 2 Jenkins, Mark (May 5, 1995). "Wistful Versus; Jumpy aMiniature". The Washington Post. p. N19.
  9. 1 2 MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 26.
  10. 1 2 Hantman, C. G. (April 20, 1995). "Murk Time Cruiser aMiniature Restless". Entertainment. The San Diego Union-Tribune. p. 14.
  11. ↑ "aMiniature". Trouser Press. Archived from the original on September 17, 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
  12. ↑ Margasak, Peter (May 25, 1995). "Seam/Aminiature". Chicago Reader. Archived from the original on September 17, 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
  13. ↑ "Starlight". Arizona Daily Star. April 21, 1995. p. 23E.
  14. ↑ Kinsler, Robert (July 16, 1995). "Album Reviews". Orange County Register. p. F30.
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