Voyage(r)
Original Release Date: 05/19/4041
GREEN! were exactly the sort of band they portrayed themselves as. Loud, crass, pumped full of manic energy with nowhere to expend it. Aboard the high-speed rails that darted across the forgotten landscapes of Blaynk, there was little to see. Towns of forgotten manufacturing, put out of business by the rise of artificial intelligence, the mother and father stores peddling candy for mere Space Bucks, the institutions of learning decaying from lack of funds, or maybe interest. The seedy backyard bars, the one-vorsanx towns, the tumbleweeds of mediocrity, playing to a sold-out show of one (usually the owner). GREEN! was, to no one’s surprise, perturbed. A looting spree later, built on the back of a rude comment from a passerby, and the band (squired by their drummer Enig) suddenly had birthed a legend. Riding through the night air, blasting their instruments, howling and hollering. If no one had told you, you might have thought that a demon had awoken. Using their newfound celebrity, fans flocked to the dive bars (some underwater, some just under water), thrashing their heads to GREEN!, allowing the mystery of their backstory to grow into mythic, and unconstrained proportions. With the pressure on, now, to live up to the scintillating mythos, the band could not keep up. Not only were they expected to play for hours, but they were being held to a criminal and negligence standard which had its limits, no matter how much targamel went up their noses. A flash in the pan was an understatement, for the legend of GREEN! was over before it began. No longer loud or crass, now starving for a morsel of energy, their only album A Long Way To Go is a sonic adventure. A single night as the life of the party before the lights went out. The album is purposefully short (a mere 18 minutes in total) as it was all the band could muster after a night of binging and purging. Still, it gallops like an engine, unforgiving in its rawness, with a backing track made of fire and melodies twitching from chiptune highs to swampy lows. The title may be ironic, or poignant, depending on how you interpret it, but the legend passed down for generations, and its over-exaggeration, of GREEN! is still doing donuts in the parking lot. Dive in, maybe in a dive bar, dear Audionauts, because there is still A Long Way To Go.
Side A
Step Off
Gun It!
Roll 'Em Up
Steal This Song
Side B
Axe To Grind
Skidmarks
Gun To My Head?
Bounty Hunter