Shimmer
Kids Underpop Association - The Natural
Riot
Artist: Shimmer Kids Underpop Association
Title: The Natural Riot
Catalog#: AHA!043
Price: $10.00 
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Tracks
on this CD: |
| Model
Kit (Windows Media) |
| Like Candy,
Like Poison |
| Matadors in Red |
| The Getaway |
| Burning
Bridges (Windows Media) |
| The Soft Police |
| Baby Bankrobber |
| Tones in Orbit |
| Another Planet |
| Going in Circles |
| The Pilot
and the Gardener |
| Miss Classified |
| The High Season |
| October Century |
| Se Acabo,
la Fiesta |
Grab your Geiger counter!
The finest selection of homespun Audiopiates, stolen from the
cluttered attic >of
rock 'n' roll history, hotwired together with reckless abandon.
THE NATURAL RIOT
Beneath the sidewalk static, transmitted along the underground railroad and dropped
behind enemy lines, Hidden Agenda Records and The Shimmer Kids Underpop Association
are proud to announce the release of their latest collection of coded choruses
and secret symphonies, 'The Natural Riot': 15 songs about soft police, interplanetary
paranoia, getaway cars, and cathode ray romances, filtered through guitars, saxophones,
trumpets, organs, xylophones, theremins, and pianos. Straight from the conspiracy
conservatory, these compositions of psychological surgery are wrapped in the
visions of New Gods and blown >circuits, all for the audio pleasure of The
People. Soak your shoes in red wine and strike the angels dumb, this is the clarion
call that will put an >anarchist colony on the moon and a bitter smile on
your lips. For the almost-criminal in everyone. Claiming influences as diverse
as Spiritualized,
The Flaming Lips, Belle & Sebastian and The Ronettes, The Shimmer Kids Underpop
Association has created a wonderfully orchestrated, incandescent sound world
for fans of The Zombies and Donovan, the Spacemen 3 family tree and T. Rex, The
Orange Alabaster Mushroom and The Green Pajamas.
PRESS for 'Prairie Prayers' MCD…
"The Shimmer Kids UnderPop Association hail from San Francisco, are based
around a core of six musicians who have been playing together for around three
years with Josh Babcock serving as the singer/songwriter/guitarist and producer.
The opening cut alone, 'We're All Chiefs and No Indians", is an extraordinarily
Pet Sounds-ish piece full of sheepish (baa-baa) four-part harmonies segueing
beautifully into a very Olivia-esque instrumental entitled 'The Oscillator Gang
Rides Again'. What are you waiting for? Round 'em
up!" [PTOLEMAIC TERRASCOPE]
PRESS for ‘Bury My Heart
At Makeout
Point’ CD…
“The Bay Area's premier lo-fi psychedelic band. There are instrumentals
with spoken short stories about flying saucers and lizard babies; there's the
Byrds as told to Guided by Voices; there are mind-fucking backward loops and
robot jams; there's the Beach Boys melting in the sun and then drowning; there's
a drunken Gram Parsons stomp; and there are plenty of scathing, brokenhearted
lyrics sung like Brian Wilson at his most glum, meant for anyone who's ever seen
Californ-eye-ay through bloodshot eyes to enjoy over five Bloody Marys and a
nap in the grass.” [SAN FRANCISCO BAY
GUARDIAN]
PRESS
for "Strange Signals" 45…
"With a Creedence Clearwater rhythm-guitar groove firmly established, the
Shimmer Kids start clapping those hands and warbling timeless sentiments such
as 'bop shuwah, bop shuwah' while a theremin buzzes around like a hummingbird
looking for flowers. Is this some cultural cul-de-sac the interstate passed by
30 years ago? Nope, just a cadre of Phillip K. Dick/Bob Dylan loyalists bent
on serenading a fucked-up (but beautiful) world. 'I wish I was 93 million miles
away' warbles one of the Kids. Hey, brother, not so fast. You've got a lot of
work to do before retirement.” [MAGNET MAGAZINE]
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