Volume 1: Crop Circles, by Sheer Velocity

Volume 1: Crop Circles

by Sheer Velocity

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1.	EADGBE 00:34	buy track
2.	Marching to Mars 02:53	buy track
3.	Please Welcome Back to the Program... 03:34	buy track
4.	Beautiful Brutality 03:44	buy track
5.	National Coffee Day 02:38	buy track
6.	Cut To Ribbons 02:22	buy track
7.	Rumours 02:41	buy track
8.	Susan's Arpeggiated Skull Fragments 03:33	buy track
9.	Seven Autumn Hours 03:04	buy track
10.	Slanting Sun 03:54	buy track
11.	Winfred 03:08	buy track
12.	Closing On Four 04:38	buy track
13.	Snowpants Fantasy 02:10	buy track
14.	Return of the Locusts 03:21	buy track
15.	Helen Got Bored 02:24	buy track
16.	The Acolytes 03:12	buy track
17.	We Killed Raj 02:32	buy track
18.	Rust 02:53	buy track
19.	Charlie Drowns 03:26	buy track
20.	Torch It @155 03:06	buy track
21.	New Age NASA Porn 02:47	buy track
22.	The Fast 03:03	buy track
23.	Headless Woman 02:45	buy track
24.	Van Out of Control 01:49	buy track
25.	Shower Porn Massacre 02:47	buy track
26.	Dating In the Dark 03:41	buy track
27.	Cold That Kills 04:43	buy track

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All-instrumental, guitar-centric extravaganza that veers unsettlingly between exotic beauty and nightmare soundscapes. Daredevil fretboard virtuosity is offset by unpredictable, bizarre and often linear arrangements and a whole world of textures & moods.

"A precision-fingered assemblage of daredevil works...its exotic geometries will be impressed in the fertile fields of your musical mind" - FRACTAL AUDIO

"Like early Steve Vai with Rob Zombie producing. Really clever compositions and soundscapes...the best guitar album I've heard in years!" - ANDY WOOD, Down From Up

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released June 17, 2010

When Andee Blacksugar is not busy tending to his hair, he records stacks and stacks of stream-of-consciousness instrumentals like those featured on this, his first official instrumental release.

The purpose is to explore concepts on the guitar and stretch the limits of his instrumental abilities, but Sheer Velocity is also a creative palette-cleansing, which drains off the more bizarre and indulgent musical notions that rattle around in this songwriter's head.

Each piece is conceived, written, recorded and mixed in one sitting. During particularly prolific periods, as many as two or three of these are finished in a day's time.

An avid pop music fanatic who writes catchy electro-rock songs by day, Andee uses these sessions to exorcise the darker, more warped and decidedly anti-pop tendencies of his musical persona. Oh, and to shred gratuitously on his Stratocaster.

He played and programmed all of the parts you hear, and records exclusively in his Brooklyn apartment under the influence of copious amounts of hubris.

Andee has collaborated with artists as diverse as Peter Murphy (Bauhaus), Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Dug Pinnick and Jerry Gaskill (King's X), Boy George and Scissor Sisters. And he loves talking about himself in the third person.

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