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When the Red King Comes | ||||
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Released | 1997 | |||
Genre | Indie pop, indie rock | |||
Label | Arena Rock Recording Co. [1] | |||
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AllMusic | [2] |
Chicago Tribune | [3] |
When the Red King Comes is the second album by the Elephant 6 band Elf Power. [4] [5] It is a concept album about the Red King's kingdom. The cover art is taken from a section of an imaginary map called “The Land of Make Believe”, drawn in 1930 by Jaro Hess. A more complete version of the map can be seen in The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands.
" Needles in the Camels Eyes" is a cover of the Brian Eno song. [6]
Trouser Press wrote that "though still noisy, the improved sound coincides with a sharper focus in the songwriting (that's good) and the first hint of impending mythological obsessions (not so good)." [1] The Chicago Tribune thought that "in Elf Power's hands, psychedelia is a means of transforming personal trauma into a twisted kind of triumph." [3]
AllMusic wrote that "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." [2]
All songs written by Andrew Rieger unless otherwise noted.