• Source: Gong Lake (Neptune album)

Gong Lake is the sixth full length album by American noise rock band Neptune, released on February 19, 2008 by Table of the Elements / Radium. It was the band's first release to be distributed worldwide.




Reception


Pitchfork writer Jason Crock wrote, who "knows what machine has been subverted to make the noise, many songs start from stretched, ominous tones that may as well be from keyboards, notably on songs like "Copper Green" where the band hangs several little noise fugues like tree ornaments on one central, icy one-note drone." A review on XlR8R described the album as "hardcore and aggressively agitating, this arrangement of instrumentation is hard on the ears yet clever enough to keep you interested." Sputnik Music giving the album a 4.5/5 rating, stated "Gong Lake is a steady manifestation towards what music can be: a musical thrill that is as innovative with the physical craft of the music as is the aural experimentation itself. The industrial soundscapes are as industrial as the makeshift instruments, or the sharp angles the creations make."




Packaging


Gong Lake was issued worldwide on CD and LP via American avant-garde record label Table of the Elements. The vinyl version was pressed on clear "coke bottle" hued vinyl.




Track listing






Personnel


Neptune

Jason Sidney Sanford – foot-controlled synthesizer, bass lamellophone, spring harp, baritone guitar, drum effects, vocals
Mark William Pearson – amplified floor tom, percussion, lightswitch synthesizer, baritone guitar, drum effects, vocals
Daniel Paul Boucher - drums, steel pipe xylophone, toggleswitch oscillator, amplified floor tom, drum effects, vocals
Additional musicians

Kenneth Wagner Linehan – homemade synthesizer (Copper Green, Ebbing)
Kevin Emil Micka – electric spring, drum effects (Silver Pool)
Production

Kevin Emil Micka - recording, mixing engineer
Neptune - mixing, production
Keith Elton Souza - assistant engineer
Seth James Manchester - assistant engineer
Scott Turner Craggs – mastering engineer
Jeff Hunt – executive producer
Packaging & Design

Lindsay Metivier - photography
Neptune - photography, layout




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Gong Lake (Neptune album)
• Neptune (American band)
• List of 2021 albums (January–June)
• List of 2010 albums
• List of Moog synthesizer players
• 1973 in music
• List of stories set in a future now in the past
• Timeline of the 20th century
• Index of Singapore-related articles
• 1979