The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
Welcome To The Infant Freebase
1996
01. Mantra Slider (6:38)
02. Firmament Vacation (A Soundtrack of Our Lives) (4:39)
03. Underground Indian (4:03)
04. Chromosome Layer (2:57)
05. Instant Repeater '99 (4:42)
06. Embryonic Rendezvous (4:12)
07. Four Ages (Part II) (3:57)
08. Grand Canaria (2:40)
09. Endless Song (4:08)
10. Confrontation Camp (4:55)
11. Blow My Cool (2:31)
12. Senior Breakdown (0:28)
13. Bendover Babies (2:45)
14. The Homo Habilis Blues (3:00)
15. For Good (2:47)
16. Magic Muslims (2:31)
17. Rest In Piece (3:21)
18. Retro Man (5:31)
19. Theme From Hallo (1:29)
20. Legend In His Own Mind (2:53)
Stanton Swihart@Allmusic.com napisal(a):
Ebbot Lundberg (vocals) and Bjorn Olsson (guitar) were founders of the wildly exciting Swedish band Union Carbide Productions, which recorded several albums that mixed Captain Beefheart and punk (think Stooges) to wonderful effect in the late '80s. Eventually Ian Person joined Union Carbide Productions on guitar. By this point, however, Lundberg was becoming influenced by Love and other late-'60s psych-pop bands and was steering the band in this direction, causing friction within the band. After several albums in this new direction, Union Carbide Productions imploded, and band members went in their own directions. Lundberg, Olsson, and Person reunited in 1995 and started the band Soundtrack of Our Lives, which mines the '60s psych vein in unique, unpredictable, and interesting ways. Never sounding like a retro act, Soundtrack of Our Lives is a thoroughly modern band that is actually extending '60s themes and ideas in ways that acts from that time never imagined. The Homo Habilis Blues EP was released in 1996, followed by the full-length Welcome to the Infant Freebase that same year, after which Olsson left the touring aspect of the band to the other members (he remained a part of the band in the studio, while maintaining his own solo career). Work on a second album commenced in 1998, and the band released Extended Revelation for the Psychic Weaklings of Western Civilization late that year. The new millennium found the Soundtrack of Our Lives with an American contract through Universal's Republic subsidiary, which released 2001's Behind the Music and 2005's Origin, Vol. 1.
Jason Ankeny@Allmusic.com napisal(a):
That the Soundtrack of Our Lives originally envisioned their debut LP as a 50-song box set speaks volumes about Welcome to the Infant Freebase's creativity and scope — although the completed album contains a mere 20 tracks, the band's dark, dramatic reconfiguration of rock & roll's elemental forces nevertheless echoes the majesty and ambitions of classic albums past. Opening with the brilliant "Mantra Slider," a serpentine epic which, along with the "Let's Spend the Night Together"-rewrite "Blow My Cool," evokes the Stones' late-60s efforts, Welcome to the Infant Freebase goes on to recall everyone from the Doors to Pink Floyd to Led Zeppelin, reinvigorating even the hoariest clichés while somehow managing to avoid the pitfalls of nostalgia; the key is that TSOOL never gives in to irony — their affection for rock's traditions is genuine, and their desire to reinvent those traditions is pure.
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