EEVIAC - Operational Index and Reference Guide

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Man or Astro-man?
EEVIAC - Operational Index and Reference Guide

[ Touch and Go Records / CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 20 April 1999

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Coming up with one of their tightest and most listenable albums to date, Man or Astro-man? apply their hard-driving, sci-fi surf-rock to something of a concept album on EEVIAC (full title: EEVIAC: Operational Index and Reference Guide, Including Other Modern Computational Devices). The exact nature of that concept is difficult to decipher - something about an alien supercomputer and an obsession with technical jargon - but what matters more is that the group has continued to expand its sound, using more electronic effects and de-emphasizing kitschy samples in favor of their own, electronically altered vocals. There are even a few numbers that recall the punky, amphetamine-fueled guitar-pop of early British new wave; the jams - although still providing a few meandering moments - generally create fleshed-out soundscapes. One of the group's better albums. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide

Tracks:

1 Interstellar Hardrive - 2:17
2 D: Contamination - 2:20
3 U-235/PU-239 - 2:01
4 Domain of the Human Race - 1:33
5 Theme from Eeviac - 2:32
6 A Reversal of Polarity - 3:31
7 Fractionalized Reception of a Scrambled Transmission - 1:18
8 Engines of Difference - 2:42
9 Psychology of A.I. (Numbers Follow Answers) - 1:32
10 Krasnoyask - 1:14
11 Within the Mainframe, Impaired Vision from Inoperable Catarcts Can ... - 2:53
12 As Estralas Agora Elas Estão Mortas - 2:52
13 Myopia - 6:26
14 Automated Liner Notes Sequence - 3:34