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Radial Spangle
12+ albums
indiepsychedelicshoegazeindie rock90s
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RADIAL SPANGLE (From Trouser Press, written by Fred Mills) Birthday EP (UK Beggars Banquet) 1993 Ice Cream Headache (Beggars Banquet/Atlantic) 1993 Raze EP (UK Beggars Banquet) 1993 Syrup Macrame (Beggars Banquet) 1994 Some rock bands are born of the rustbelts and heartlands; the members of Radial Spangle, however, had either the misfortune or the good grace (take your pick) to be stuck in Norman, Oklahoma. Unlike fellow Normans the Flaming Lips (an early influence), Radial Spangle opted not to tour, instead digging in and writing songs that reflected both an isolationist naïveté‚ and a warped, mind-expansionist aesthetic. As with America's small-town homegrown psychedelic warriors of the '60s, geographical limitations bred grand stylistic permutations. Mercury Rev's Jonathan Donahue took a liking to the band; he put in a good word to his English label, and Radial Spangle — which had never played outside Norman — found itself with a recording contract in 1992, just months after forming. Ice Cream Headache was engineered by Rev's David Fridmann but essentially self-produced by the band, whose creative core consists of guitarist Alan Laird and bassist April Tippens (Richard English, ex-Flaming Lips, did the drumming but was replaced shortly after the album's release by Kelsey Kennedy). Imperfect but entertaining, the record is equal parts abrasive, assaultive skronk (the opening "Raze" features neo-metallic guitar distorto-riffing and a pounding drum pattern, while "Drip" owe
