Entertaining Monsters by Musaphonic

"Quite awe inspiring, to be honest, as the textures and arrangements used are often quite inventive." Scott Homewood, www.rockandrollreport.com

Matt Howarth of www.soniccuriosity.com writes: "This release features 67 minutes of conventional rock music. Some conventional rock ‘n’roll. Rock-out guitar delivering riffs of an accessible nature. At times, though, the guitars adopt a progressive edge with nimble-fingered delivery. On several occasions, the guitar adopts an electric mandolin sound with sparkling crunch.

Electronics (mainly keyboards) providing slippery chords, often of an incidental nature, acting in support of the lead guitar. Percussion (natural and artificial) offering rhythms of a rock nature, locomotion for the songs.

The tempos are usually snappy, straightforward. Bass lines of the type found in usual rock tunes. Vocals, generally of a hushed spoken nature, that sometimes slip into understated crooning.

These compositions explore tuneage quite unlike Arnold’s usual fare, delving into more accessible venues. Most of these songs are short, but the last track is 12 minutes long, and offers a more progressive dose of tuneage, blending abstract mixing with prog-rock melodies."

Tracklist

1.	Rise of the CryptoCretins	3:41

2.	Preacherpreneur	2:40

3.	The Candy-ankle Holler	2:31

4.	TITTYOUS ROCK+ROLL XXXTROVERT!!!	3:35

5.	Skunk Eye Spar	5:22

6.	Chimp with Ray Gun	3:10

7.	The Magnificent Seven	11:28

8.	Titan It Up!	2:50

9.	Eastern Star	10:09

10.	Chicharron	4:12

11.	Axis Mundi	5:23

12.	Cryptic Lament	3:46

13.	Scruncheon	3:16

14.	The Creeping Insidiae of Anthropomorphic Fruit	11:56

Credits

released October 31, 2007

Composed*, performed, recorded and/or arranged by Tony Arnold (*except track 7, Elmer Bernstein). Additional vocalizations by Simeon Stylites--track 14

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