Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Cream Fresh Track: Wax Fang to Release Digitally Exclusive 17-Minute Single
Posted by Adam Gold on Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:37 PM
A press release sent to the Scene says of "The Astronaut (Part 1)":
Imagine Pink Floyd and Radiohead collaborating on a modern day take of David Bowie's "Space Oddity." Coupled with Wax Fang’s trademark dynamic shift of loud, soaring riffs to soft, meditative guitar lines, [Scott] Carney’s vocals vividly guide you alongside The Astronaut lost in space.
In other words: “F.Y.I. stoners, you’ll love this! Put the needle down on the MP3 player, load up the three-footer, take that shotgun blast of Indo smoke straight to your dome-piece, and let this auditory Alice cradle the expanding wonderland in your mind as you slip in to couch-lock.”
While I can’t remember definitively, I’m pretty sure there was a point in college when I got “faded” — as it was then known — and tried to simultaneously spin Pink Floyd, Radiohead and “Space Oddity.” I probably figured that there had to be some way to make Pink Floyd sound better*. Either that, or I was frustrated from multiple failed attempts to successfully listen to Zaireeka in all four of its entireties. Aside from war, famine and genocide, there’s really nothing worse than wasting your buzz engaging in hopeless attempts to coordinate a living room of burnouts who can’t figure out how to let go of the fucking pause button at the same time. Suffice to say, I really could have used this Wax Fang song back then. And you can to.
* Note: Just Kidding Syd, Richard and David — but not you, Roger.
According to Fang manager Corey McAfee, the band are planning on performing “The Astronaut (Part 1)” in full when they open for My Morning Jacket at Louisville’s newly minted 22,000 capacity monument to basketball, fax machines and Kentucky Fried Chicken — the KFC Yum! Center — on Oct. 29. Click over to Ticketmaster to get your tickets to that Halloween haunting, then go and bookmark the Removador site and set a reminder on your smart phone, or iCal — or whatever would most confuse Andy Rooney — to log in and purchase this long-ass epic of a single on Tuesday.
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Just the fact that it's a 17-minute space-prog jam should tip you off, but if you couldn't figure it out, I fucking love this song! It makes me wish I still had that gas mask bong and a lava lamp...
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The second teaser just drifted me across three astral planes and opened my eyes to aura surrounding our non-physical selves.
Awesome.
Interesting...
My Father My King
The Diamond Sea
Djed
Sister Ray
All really long, all really good.
Tom Hanks loves space, the song is called "The Astronaut." You know, Apollo 13, From the Earth to the Moon, raising awareness about space exploration. Space stuff.
Oh, I thought it was because Tom Hanks sucks, and maybe if he listened to some good music he wouldn't suck so much.
songs that only exist as downloads suck. and i don't just say that as a record store owner. i'll listen to something digitally but i'll never love it if i can't own it.
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