Far gentler than, though equally quirky as, their maiden effort, the Red Krayola's second album was a series of odd miniatures that, though far more restrained than Parable of Arable Land, was a much more solid indication of the direction Mayo Thompson would explore over the next few decades. These are less "songs" than stream-of-consciousness fragments. Thompson's wavering, quizzical voice intones disjointed but evocative lyrics that may appear to be non sequiturs. Odd time meters and musical ...   [ read more ]

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The Red Krayola's debut remains their most celebrated and notorious effort. Although this was categorized as psychedelia when first released, it's more like futuristic avant-noise-rock. Mayo Thompson's flighty songs about hurricane fighter planes and transparent radiation are almost submerged by a cacophony of "free-form freak-out" noise created on kazoos, flutes, harmonica, hammer, jugs, bottles, sticks, and more by a large ensemble of friends dubbed the "Familiar Ugly." Minority opinion ho...   [ read more ]

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Any young avant art-noisers out there should take note: bow down to Mayo Thompson because he was on to the crazy stuff way before anybody else. Drag City's tremendous new reissue of Soldier Talk checks in with the Texas proto- and post-everything madman at the close of the 1970s when he was exiled on tour in Europe trying to find an audience cool enough to hang with him. The album concerns itself with movement of all varieties: shifting time signatures, interlocking guitar shards, and, lyrically, mobilizin...   [ read more ]

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