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- Date Released: January 1, 1993
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Garage Rock, Rock, Punk
- Label: Amphetamine Reptile / The Orchard
The patron saint of the raging clamor of the legendary AmRep label.
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We Say...
If there's a patron saint of AmRep’s raging clamor, it's probably Creed, the founder of seminal proto-pysch-punks Chrome and a man who never met a pedal he didn't want to stomp. And it's not quite that his solo albums are interchangeable — it's that few save for hardcore fans can discern the changes from set to set. (Uh, yeah, that's the ticket.) Until Creed's 1989 salvo Boxing the Clown, with drumming from Scratch Acid/Rapeman legend Rey Washam, is made available, Kiss is not a bad place to start: tight, consistent songwriting (though we use the term loosely), Creed's signature distorted vocals and storm clouds of impossibly processed, psychedelic guitar/synth buzz. Fans of trippier anti-structures should go with the earlier album
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They Say...
Kiss to the Brain is the closest Helios Creed has ever come to conventional hard rock. Whereas the last Helios Creed album, Lactating Purple, was essentially a long psychedelic track extended over an album length, Kiss to the Brain has a more song-oriented approach. There is no shortage of psychedelic dementia (like the title track and the opener, "XL-351") but there is also plenty of concise, hard-driving guitar rock, such as "Throw Away the Rind" and "Legs." Even the spacy psychedelic songs are enveloped in fairly conventional structures. This is still not anywhere near mainstream hard rock -- there's plenty of bizarre lyrics and spacy sound effects, even on the hard rock songs -- but it does display that Helios Creed has the ability to create more than unstructured sonic explorations. The result is the most satisfying effort of Helios Creed's oeuvre.
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XL-35 |
6:07 |
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| 02. | |
Mountain Mystery |
2:56 |
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| 03. | |
Malavia Millenium |
3:59 |
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| 04. | |
Anubis Warpus |
5:28 |
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| 05. | |
The Federation |
1:56 |
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| 06. | |
Kiss To The Brain |
7:29 |
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| 07. | |
Throw Away The Rind |
2:19 |
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| 08. | |
Nemesis |
3:29 |
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| 09. | |
Legs |
2:59 |
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| 10. | |
Acid Rain |
5:12 |
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10 Total Tracks, 41:54 Total Length
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Credits
- Matt Kelly - Producer // Matt Kelly - Engineer // Helios Creed - Synthesizer // Helios Creed - Guitar // Helios Creed - Vocals // Helios Creed - Guitar (Synthesizer) // Helios Creed - Producer // Helios Creed - Sampling // Helios Creed - Main Performer // Paul Della Pelle - Drums // Z. Sylver - Synthesizer // Z. Sylver - Vocals // Z. Sylver - Sampling // Paul Kirk - Bass
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