Come Out To Play EP, by The Imajinary Friends

Come Out To Play EP

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1.	Glitch 03:35	buy track
2.	Hadjimiradji 02:02	buy track
3.	Cheap Thrills 02:18	buy track
4.	Syndrome 02:24	buy track
5.	Yojji 01:02	buy track

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THE IMAJINARY FRIENDS are a somewhat mysterious collective. They released their debut album "Lunchtime In Infinity" on the mighty Bomp label and in their time have been known to contain ex-SWERVEDRIVER and BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE members amongst their numbers. Fitting perfectly into Space Age ethos, they create a bizarre world of electronic experimentalism coupled with a gnawing sense of tension that often explodes into an overdriven chaos. Throughout their five tracks on this album, they cram idea after idea into their work, discordant and intoxicating revelling in their wanton refusal to accept anything close to the ordinary. Take "Cheap Thrills", all crackled sample loops and lilting pianos - disturbing yet somehow deeply affecting the sound of a burned out life set to an insane backing track. Or "Syndrome" - an explosive breakbeat fuelled affair which rips out at you with a breath-taking force. THE IMAJINARY FRIENDS know the power of going just that bit further than most, and here they do it so well that it hurts. There can be no doubt that THE IMAJINARY FRIENDS have so much to offer to us all and this album exemplifies all that is sublime about this genre, encompassing a million sounds and a million ideas and leaving us all transfixed by both its beauty and it’s wild insanity. Imajinary or not, these friends have produced an album of rare splendour and an album which should show the world that the art of pushing boundaries is far from dead.

The Imajinary Friends/Spectrum “Interface/Come Out To Play” split CD: Recorded in 1995 but not released until 1999, the Imajinary Friends' five tracks on this split CD are retro-futuristic pop songs that recall the cooler, artier end of late-'70s and early-'80s synth pop (think early Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Thomas Leer, or the Normal) updated to include post-My Bloody Valentine eruptions of noise and sound-for-sound's-sake ambience. The opening "Glitch" is a relatively concise and even catchy pop song, but each track after that is just a little weirder than the one that came before. "Cheap Thrills," for example, starts out as a moaning soul tune with slowed-down tape vocals but then slips into a bouncy little computer-generated tune that will be on the soundtrack when robots start making porn films, and "Syndrome" is like hardcore punk for computer nerds.

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released April 3, 1999

Travis Threlkel, Rick Maymi, Tim Digulla, Jeremy Davies

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Tim Digulla
Rick Maymi
Travis Threlkel

"San Francisco's IMAJINARY FRIENDS, mercurial pranksters of soundscape and pop, continue to turn in the unexpected with their unique brand of original and uncompromising music." - Pete Kember aka Sonic Boom ... more

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