One-Way Conversation

by Phantom Tollbooth

One-Way Conversation cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Homestead
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 36:35
  • Community rating: 3.66/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Dave Rick, Chris Xefos, Jon Coats, Gerard Smith

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Emerging from the fertile New York noise rock underground, the trio constructed an aggressively dense and technically demanding album. 'One-Way Conversation' relies on jarring, dissonant guitar riffs and complex, chaotic rhythmic shifts that heavily foreshadow the development of math rock. The abrasive production perfectly complements their unrelenting, muscular approach to post-hardcore.

Genres

Descriptors: technical, dissonant, progressive, noisy, avant-garde, unpredictable, guitars, experimental, complex

Tracklist

  1. Significant In Ten Years (4:23)
  2. Landing Is Gear (2:49)
  3. That's Where I Live (3:42)
  4. We're Paid By the Word (3:48)
  5. Poly - Razmatazz (2:46)
  6. Crash Mode (2:14)
  7. Last Exit Before Toll (3:55)
  8. Pajama Joe (2:48)
  9. Daylight In the Quiet Zone (2:47)
  10. Camel's Gak (3:18)
  11. Hellcat II (4:00)

Credits

  • Jon Coats - drums, painting [insert drawings by]
  • Dave Rick - guitar, vocals
  • Chris Gehringer - lacquer cut by
  • Jennifer Rick - painting [back cover painting by]
  • Chris Xefos - piano

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