Experiment Zero is an album by the American band Man or Astro-man?[3][4] It was released in 1996 by Touch and Go Records.[5]
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| Released | 1996 | |||
| Genre | Surf rock, punk rock, electronic rock | |||
| Label | Touch and Go Records[1] One Louder Records | |||
| Producer | Steve Albini | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
Production edit
Produced by Steve Albini, the album was recorded in three days.[6]
Critical reception edit
The New York Times wrote that the band "deploys a manic punk velocity, and sprinkles its music with sine-wave oscillator noises and space-documentary sound bites; otherwise its material is fairly faceless."[7] The Austin American-Statesman concluded that, as "a celebration of robotic white-guy stiffness, this music has the soul of a Jetsons episode."[8]
Track listing edit
- "Stereo Phase Test"
- "Television Fission"
- "DNI"
- "Planet Collision"
- "Big Trak Attack"
- "9 Volt"
- "Evil Plans of Planet Spectra"
- "Anoxia"
- "Maximum Radiation Level"
- "King of the Monsters"
- "Cyborg Control"
- "Test Driver" (Takeshi Terauchi)
- "Television Man" (Talking Heads)
- "Z-X3"
- "Principles Unknown"
- "The Space Alphabet" - (Vinyl-only bonus track)
References edit
- ^ "Man Or Astroman? Bio". Epitaph Records. Archived from the original on 2019-09-21. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
- ^ DaRonco, Mike. Experiment Zero at AllMusic
- ^ "TrouserPress.com :: Man or Astro-Man?". www.trouserpress.com.
- ^ Wiechman, Lori (15 Nov 1996). "MAN OR ASTROMAN? WHAT (NOT WHO) IS IT?". The Augusta Chronicle. Applause. p. 3.
- ^ DiBlasi, Alex; Willis, Victoria (August 14, 2014). Geek Rock: An Exploration of Music and Subculture. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442229761 – via Google Books.
- ^ Sperounes, Sandra (3 Nov 1999). "Aliens land in Edmonton!: Man or Astro-Man? actually manipulated by computer program". Edmonton Journal. p. C4.
- ^ Ratliff, Ben (16 Sep 1996). "Scrappy Surfers Cavort In Space Age Outfits". The New York Times. p. C12.
- ^ Wolfinsohn, Deborah J. (7 May 1996). "MAN OR ASTROMAN? 'EXPERIMENT ZERO'". Austin American-Statesman. p. E8.