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  1. Artist:   Gary War
  2. Title:    The New Raytheonport
  3. Label:    Shdwply Records
  4. Genre:    Indie
  5. Bitrate:  188kbit av.
  6. Time:     00:38:23
  7. Size:     54.34 mb
  8. Rip Date: 2009-08-30
  9. Str Date: 2009-09-07
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  11. 01. Clouds Went That Way                                          4:13
  12. 02. Good Clues                                                    2:54
  13. 03. Obscure Preferences                                           2:33
  14. 04. Please Don't Die                                              3:19
  15. 05. Cyclops Eye                                                   4:11
  16. 06. Bounce Four                                                   3:04
  17. 07. Healthy Living                                                2:44
  18. 08. Grown In Shells                                               3:45
  19. 09. Eye In The Sky                                                4:15
  20. 10. Edge Of Mess                                                  4:24
  21. 11. Hope For The Future                                           3:01
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  25. UK edition including an extra track.
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  29. It is amazing how far the outer boundaries psychedelic music have
  30. spread over the past forty three years. At this point, unless you're
  31. listening to something pretty lame, psychedelic music has burrowed
  32. itself in just about every corner of rock'n'roll music, from the
  33. raggedness of Roky Erickson back in the mid-60s to the meandering fuzz
  34. drone of the more contemporary acts like Wooden Shjips. When an act
  35. comes along such as Gary War that seems to conjure the ever-changing
  36. zeitgeist of psychedelia out of the ether, it's remarkable. His songs
  37. not only pay homage to the bands that have brought us to these
  38. crossroads over the past half of a decade, but they also seem to walk
  39. us through a sound scape of styles, and in the process, Gary War carved
  40. out his spot in the ageless catalog of psychedelic music.
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  42. Gary War, the mysterious upstart from Brooklyn, NY has just released
  43. his debut LP this winter on SHDWPLY/DISARO Records. Playing with vast,
  44. sweeping echoes, softly sung lyrics, and infusing sonic textures
  45. through synth-driven overtures, Gary War's album, New Raytheonport
  46. takes us through the often banal sonics of the psychedelic form with a
  47. fresh take on what seems at first, an aggregate of the past couple of
  48. decades of drug-influenced music, and drops us dead center, at the
  49. doorstep to La La Land. His tonal insobriety, from one song to the next
  50. is a true sign of the times, where artists are driven to explore
  51. different avenues, melding genres, vocal styles and instrumentation to
  52. arrive somewhere new, all the while taking the listener along for the
  53. ride. Pulling from influences that hold as much up to Chrome as they do
  54. Syd Barret, Gary War is able to wrangle them from every corner, and he
  55. even covers The Alan Parsons Project without sounding misguided,or a
  56. late arriving hippie on a hotbox high. Instead, Gary War creates a
  57. sound that wisps through the knobby branches of the past and
  58. sumptuously uproots our notions of the boundaries of psychedelia.
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  60. sire@hush.ai
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