Still Electric

Primitive Radio Gods (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 22, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• ASIN: B000C9IHKY
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #700,948 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Falls short of white hot peach, but excellent 3rd album!, April 12, 2006

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bkhage01 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Still Electric (Audio CD)

Another great album by the Primitive Radio Gods! Rocket was an instant classic, even though most people have only heard "Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth..." White Hot Peach, their second album, was definitely their best, and an instant 5 star classic as well.

That being said, Still Electric hits you in a completely different way. Very similar to some of their lesser known B-sides, this album is more experimental. Eerie loops of instrumentation dubbed over what sounds like crackling transistor radio waves create a blissful lo-fi wall of sound a mile high. Lyrics and voices echo across the haunting, droning guitars. It does not flow quite as well as White Hot Peach, but is still amazing, and well worth the price of purchase. Track list is as follows:

"What If I Sped?"
"The Underground Solution"
"Children of the Helmet Law"
"Under the Greystar"
"Good Evening San Francisco"
"Up the Arbor"
"Unspoken No"
"Ripped in November"
"Seld-Serve Island"
"Apso Foogin' Lootly"

The album highlights are "Under the Greystar," "Good Evening San Francisco," & "Ripped in November." "Apso Foogin' Lootly" is an absolutely gorgeous, ethereal piano track that serves as a perfect outro for the album. Sad and beautiful, it fades into the silence, leaving the soundwaves echoing in your head, the way White Hot Peach also managed to do perfectly.

The PRG Collector's Edition of this album, which ran a very limited release (100 copies, I believe), had an extra track called "Normalizer"- this track is actually available through PRG's website or iTunes. Visit PRG's website or Myspace page to hear songs from this album, as well as their excellent 2007 digital-only release, Sweet Venus. They have a great Last.fm page as well where you can sample all these rarities. Highly worth a listen.