Title: Tum Artist: The Impossible Shapes Label: Secretly Canadian Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 656605013220 Genre: Indie Rock/Pop Release Date: 2006-03-07 Number of Discs: 1
Formed in 1988, Indiana's Impossible Shapes have kept a profoundly articulate sense of classic song/dream structure whether they're billowing in drenched multi-tracked gauze like Indianapolis forefathers Zerfas, or snarled in amp-buzz annihilation of power-quartet stage performances. On the flip, Barth (guitarist/vocalist) can pixie dance from guitar play/vocal slay in a quaint yet sexually sly role of piper against Deer's (organ, bass) counterpoint-heavy arrangements of tape-spliced fuckery. Easily the rawest tapes of the Shapes' canon, "Tum" is a potent album.
Tracks: 1.1 Ra in Thy Rising 1.2 Florida Silver Springs 1.3 Working Vessel, the 1.4 Pixie Pride 1.5 Fulgent Fields 1.6 Tahuti, Splendid Scribe 1.7 Late Summer Sky 1.8 Kephra 1.9 Hornbeam 1.10 Pan-Ther 1.11 Wild West Wake Us Up 1.12 Hather 1.13 Our Love Lives 1.14 Twisted Sol Epoch 1.15 Willow Willow Yew 1.16 Little Gloves 1.17 Tum
