When the Red King Comes, by Elf Power

When the Red King Comes

by Elf Power

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1.	Step Through the Portal... 01:57	buy track
2.	...Into the Everlasting Time 01:59	buy track
3.	The Frightened Singers 00:45	buy track
4.	The Secret Ocean 02:59	buy track
5.	The Arrow Flies Close 02:37	buy track
6.	Icy Hands Will Never Melt Away 03:26	buy track
7.	When the Red King Comes 03:28	buy track
8.	The Separating Fault 03:32	buy track
9.	Spectators 02:19	buy track
10.	Introducing Cosmic Space 03:29	buy track
11.	The Bengal Parade 02:59	buy track
12.	Needles in the Camels Eyes 03:01	buy track
13.	The Silver Lake 03:38	buy track
14.	It's Been A Million Years 03:27	buy track

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As the Elephant 6 catalog continues to expand, it becomes increasingly obvious that many of the label's bands are concerned not merely with creating fresh and exciting music but rather entire mythologies, crafting obscure concept records exploring the intricacies of strange pocket universes. Existing in the musical gray area between Olivia Tremor Control and Neutral Milk Hotel -- both of whose members make cameos here -- Elf Power's superb When the Red King Comes is a heady journey to a psychedelic utopia, a travelogue with such destinations as "The Secret Ocean," "The Separating Fault," and "The Silver Lake." As imagined primarily by singer/songwriter Andrew Rieger, the album is a odyssey "Into the Everlasting Time," and true to its word, it seems to exist outside of any obvious era -- the fuzzy, lo-fi production is an Elephant 6 hallmark, but the unique instrumentation (electric horns, pump organs, even Nepalese percussion) and cryptic, stream-of-consciousness wordplay suggest something altogether different; perhaps most telling is When the Red King Comes' cover, a crazed map suggesting something out of a J.R.R. Tolkien fever dream.

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released January 1, 1997

Andrew Rieger - guitars, vocals, flute, zanzitophone, keyboards, bass, percussion
Laura Carter - keyboards, vocals, Moog synthesizer, zanzitophone, loops
Bryan Helium - bass, vocals, guitar, sitar, keyboards
Aaron Wegelin - drums, vocals, percussion
David Barbe - singing
Kevin Barnes - singing, sitar
John Fernandes: singing, violin, clarinet, loops
W. Cullen Hart - guitorgan
Julian Koster - singing, keyboards, magic robot voice
Jeff Mangum - singing
Josh McKay - Nepalese copper shawm
Dave Wrathgeber - singing

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