Economy of Motion

by Colossamite

Economy of Motion cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 20 October 1998
  • Label: Skin Graft
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 35:04
  • Community rating: 3.26/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as an intense exercise in rhythmic complexity and sonic abrasion, 'Economy of Motion' stands as a visceral high-water mark for the 90s Minneapolis underground. The quartet executes neck-snapping time signature changes and jagged, atonal guitar figures with terrifying precision, creating a suffocating yet exhilarating math-rock experience.

Genres

Descriptors: dissonant, noisy, uncommon-time-signatures, avant-garde

Tracklist

  1. The Hot House (1:29)
  2. Mr. Somebody Does Something (2:13)
  3. The Eagle and the Seal (2:03)
  4. Heat Vs. Temperature (3:19)
  5. Pee Dio (1:45)
  6. Busy Little Hands (2:39)
  7. Tooth of DaVinci (2:46)
  8. Arkansas Halo (2:55)
  9. An Open-Minded Taxidermist (2:43)
  10. Untitled 1 (0:09)
  11. Untitled 2 (0:21)
  12. Untitled 3 (0:11)
  13. Untitled 4 (0:09)
  14. Untitled 5 (0:11)
  15. Untitled 6 (0:09)
  16. Untitled 7 (0:09)
  17. Untitled 8 (0:11)
  18. Untitled 9 (0:10)
  19. Untitled 10 (0:09)
  20. Untitled 11 (0:10)
  21. Untitled 12 (0:11)
  22. Untitled 13 (0:04)
  23. Untitled 14 (0:06)
  24. Neither Sniff Nor Crictor (3:23)
  25. Doom + Doom = Doom (2:41)
  26. Dark, Sliding Shapes (4:40)

Credits

  • Colossamite - primary artist
  • Jared Russell - baritone saxophone
  • John Dieterich - guitar [guitar], effects [manipulations]
  • Ed Rodriguez - guitar [guitar], keyboards
  • Chad Popple - percussion
  • Josh Dixon - trumpet
  • Nick Sakes - vocals, guitar

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