william Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 (edited) IMAGINARY SOFTWOODS ANNUAL FLOWERS IN COLOR Vinyl Version does include a download code for the LP + extra tracks. vinyl available from Amethyst Sunset Bandcamp and Forced Exposure Kompakt "Time is absolute garbage . . . But here's the thing: given enough time, your friends are going to keep making records, you're going to keep listening to them, and if you're lucky, some of them are going to seep into the cracks of your day-to-day . . . Since its initial appearance as a private press double cassette in 2016, Annual Flowers in Color has been exactly this sort of talisman for me. More to the point, it's also the closest thing to a definitive statement in the twelve-year history of John Elliott's Imaginary Softwoods and a no-brainer on the thinking head's shortlist of Elliott's most essential releases, alongside Outer Space's Akashic Record (Events: 1986-1990)(SP 019LP, 2012), Emeralds' Solar Bridge (2008) and What Happened (EMEGO 109LP, 2010), Mist's House (SP 004CD/LP, 2011), Lilypad's Capacitor (2008), Colored Mushroom and the Medicine Rocks' self-titled LP (2010), and Quiet Light Water Gap's Live at the Delaware County VFW Hall (2010). While each of these projects draws from the same reservoir of glittering pinpoint riffcraft and homespun surrealism and each reflects in its own fashion the awareness that a certain undercurrent of lurid horror is essential to all authentically psychedelic music, Imaginary Softwoods has always been distinguished in its relationship to a particular decades-long chain of private press loner music, or chamber music for shut-ins. You wouldn't necessarily be wrong to call Annual Flowers in Color 'deeply personal,' but that almost misses the point . . . it's handmade, human-scale domestic ritual music the making of which is inseparable from the sense in which it's been 'lived in.' . . . Above all, Annual Flowers in Color is an absolutely gorgeous, perfectly weathered, subtly strange record. It's exactly the thing you're thinking of when you think 'I want to hear really killer polysynths and tape delay,' but it's also much more, glistening with distended reflections of Steve Roach and Stapleton, ringing with simultaneous sublimated echoes of the dorkiest and most expensive French mellotron prog and the most incandescent cheap heat from the $2 exotica bin, and dripping with the 'as above, so below' that characterizes synthesizer records at their best. It's both a welcoming point of entry for the uninitiated and a sticky, seductive cut deep enough to envelop any heads seeking a way station on the search for the apocryphal second volume of Cosmos Farm Sessions." --Chris Madak (Philadelphia, February 2020) Edited March 11, 2020 by william OneThreeOneTwo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneThreeOneTwo Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 Sold out on Bandcamp: Wow! Will have to snag this when it comes to a store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william Posted March 13, 2020 Author Share Posted March 13, 2020 23 hours ago, 30SecondsOfFranchiseFame said: Sold out on Bandcamp: Wow! Will have to snag this when it comes to a store. yeah - my copies sold out pretty quickly but you should see them in shops (hopefully) within the next month or two as they get them from Forced Exposure. Also for anyone else interested, this can be streamed on bandcamp here : https://imaginarysoftwoods.bandcamp.com/album/annual-flowers-in-color-2020-remaster OneThreeOneTwo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 Nice review of this record on Pitchfork ! https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/imaginary-softwoods-annual-flowers-in-color/ The vinyl is still available from Forced Exposure and is currently on sale for $14.88 plus shipping. Now would be a great time to buy it if you can and have some money to spare. https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/imaginary-softwoods-annual-flowers-in-color-lp/AS.026LP.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william Posted May 11, 2020 Author Share Posted May 11, 2020 On 4/22/2020 at 2:26 PM, william said: Nice review of this record on Pitchfork ! https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/imaginary-softwoods-annual-flowers-in-color/ The vinyl is still available from Forced Exposure and is currently on sale for $14.88 plus shipping. Now would be a great time to buy it if you can and have some money to spare. https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/imaginary-softwoods-annual-flowers-in-color-lp/AS.026LP.html copies are running low at forced exposure and it is back up to the normal price . stream the digital version of the album here if you haven't already: https://imaginarysoftwoods.bandcamp.com/album/annual-flowers-in-color-2020-remaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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