Intermission

Intermission Artist: The Residents
Label: East Side Digital
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: EP
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 021561813120
EAN: 0021561813120
ASIN: B000005ZVK


Release Date: 1998-04-07

Intermission


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Tracks:

  1. Prelude: Lights Out
  2. Intermission: Shorty's Lament
  3. Intermission: The Moles Are Coming
  4. Intermission: Would We Be Alive?
  5. Recessional: The New Hymn

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The perfect Residents EP.......2006-01-29

Many bands are known for releasing solid 3-6 track EPs at some point in their careers. This one has to be the Residents' pinnacle. It entrances you from the 1st track to the 5th, with a linear feel throughout, and downright creepy & eerie at times. Truly the stuff of a Mole's nightmare.

4 out of 5 stars FANTISTIQUES PETITS TRAVAUX!.......2003-03-08

Les intermissions du Mole Show du début des années 80, version studio. Fascinant. Une tension dans le minimalisme narratif. Les arrangement vocaux de Lorie Ammat laissent déjà présager les futurs travaux des Residents de «God in Three Persons» et «Freak Show». Sombre et délicieux. Pochette hallucinante.

4 out of 5 stars Great, but...........2001-11-09

I bought this on a whim back in the 80's, not knowing what to expect. I found the minimalist, hypnotic music very much to my liking. Shortie's Lament, Moles Are Coming, and Would We Be Alive becoming standard fare in my music collection. Then, last year I bought Three In One. It had all the stuff I thought so well of in Intermission. BUT it also had that annoying voice over on EVERY song. It was like a long-winded monologue with a musical background. Now I'm scared to buy another Residents CD for fear it will be more like Three In One than Intermission. Intermission is worth the money, but I will be wary of anything else by these guys.

2 out of 5 stars some good bits,average stuff.......2001-03-31

'would we be alive' and 'shorty's lament' are decent songs, the others are ok. Not much to write home about really. Trivia: Would we be alive was covered by the punk band Nomeansno.

5 out of 5 stars Short and sweet.......2000-02-10

This is a short ep, but it has some fantastic music on it which makes it well worth the money.

The Residents' music from this era is buzzy and bleepy, with fuzzy twangy guitar lines, processed, hollow vocals, strong rhythms...and of course, the signature odd chords and harmonies, the just-out-of-sync rhythms.

Perhaps my favorite song is "Would We Be Alive", which has some of the most haunting lyrics of anything they've done.

My suggestion is that if you like Mark of the Mole, or other albums from this era, this is an excellent album to pick up.

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