Godspeed the Punchline

Godspeed the Punchline
Studio album by Trumans Water
Released	January 1994
Recorded	1993
Genre	Indie rock
Label	Homestead

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Washington Post	(favorable) [2]

Godspeed the Punchline is an LP by Trumans Water. It was released in January 1994 by Homestead Records in the United States and Elemental Records in the UK.^[3] This album was preceded by three other "Godspeed" albums--Godspeed the Static, Godspeed the Vortex and Godspeed the Hemorrhage--all of which featured improvised, lo-fi music. Godspeed the Punchline can probably be considered the proper, studio follow-up to Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass. It is the last studio album recorded with Glen Galloway before he left to form Soul-Junk. The album was described as "eighteen short blasts of negasonic tumult" by David Sprague of Trouser Press,^[4] while Mark Jenkins of The Washington Post stated that the songs "can wander aimlessly or suddenly turn on the siren and race straight to their destination".^[2]

Track listing

1. "Destroy 1998" - 0:41
2. "Long End of a Firearm" - 4:47
3. "All Wet West of Washington" - 2:29
4. "Hair Junk Fibre" - 1:22
5. "Ungalaxy" - 0:38
6. "Antsmashes Yer Star (Dead Airwaves)" - 3:48
7. "Enflamed" - 3:40
8. "Outpatient Lightspeed" - 2:56
9. "Infinity Times Zero" - 0:13
10. "Sucker Mystique" - 2:10
11. Playboy Stabtone Bloodbath Go" - 2:38
12. "Slander in New Slang" - 2:33
13. "No Big (Wave) Star" - 2:37
14. "Theme of Blast" - 0:34
15. "Fuller Piston Vinegar" - 3:35
16. "22" - 2:33
17. "Horsesense" - 1:54
18. "Spaceship Next Door" - 1:18

References

1. Cramer, Stephen "Godspeed the Punchline Review", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation, retrieved 21 November 2009
2. Jenkins, Mark (1994) "Trumans Water: Rants & Rave-Ups", Washington Post, 25 March 1994
3. Strong, Martin C. (2003) The Great Indie Discography, Canongate, ISBN 1-84195-335-0, p. 1039
4. Sprague, David "Trumans Water", Trouser Press, retrieved 21 November 2009