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Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?
Rock · 2010 · 13 tracks · 1h 11m

Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?

A cold, electronic pivot from the psych-rock titans. Drum machines and Icelandic isolation replace the tambourines for a murky, hypnotic late-night odyssey.

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It's like a psychedelic rock band got lost in a Berlin techno club during a blizzard.

A cold, disorienting descent into synthetic psychedelia and isolated late-night grooves.

Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? · vs · The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Drum Machine+4.0σ

The instrumentation foregrounds drum machine far more than the catalogue usually does.

Tracklist · 13 Tracks · 1h 11m
01
Tempo 116.7 (Reaching for Dangerous Levels of Sobriety)
5:26
02
Þungur Hnífur
4:04
03
Let's Go Fucking Mental
4:41
04
White Music
2:13
05
This Is the First of Your Last Warning (Icelandic)
6:00
06
This Is the One Thing We Did Not Want to Have Happen
7:10
07
The One
4:15
08
Someplace Else Unknown
6:24
09
Detka! Detka! Detka!
5:21
10
Super Fucked
6:36
11
Our Time
2:57
12
Feel It
6:15
13
Felt Tipped Pictures of UFOs
10:20
Moments Worth Waiting For
the sudden shift from acoustic strumming to a heavy, synthetic club beat on track 3
the haunting, multi-lingual spoken word passages that drift through the six-minute mark of track 5
the ten-minute ambient dissolution of the final track where the melody slowly evaporates into white noise
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