A Simple Escape
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A Simple Escape is the debut album by Extra released on June 18, 2008.
About the Album
A Simple Escape was released completely free under the creative commons license in 2008. The album was a reflection and reaction to the Spring 2008 Strange Attractors Festival put on by Inter-Media artist David Means at Metropolitan State University.
Track listing
- "An Obscured Paradise" 2:31
- "Factory of the Undead" 2:34
- "Close Your Eyes (To See Where You Are)" 10:54
- "Scattered" 2:35
- "The Makeshift Housing Project" 3:37
- "What's a Melody Anyways?" 3:57
- "Chaotic Childhood" 2:40
- "Electric Still Born" 2:30
- "Hey Joe" (Found on only 8 copies of original release)
What was said about the album
"There is a sense of holism betwixt these tracks, almost epic in its narrative conception, at places a mere soundtrack to everyday life, realism and fantastic imaginative structures too. And, it all fits together curiously well. The everyday industrial realist backdrop opens huge vistas to the imagination strangely, anything on top of that is just icing on cake, so well is it constructed. It integrates well with deep-rooted subconscious memory, which can be unsettling for some but great fun for others.
In other respects its a wholesome electronic track that stands well for itself, a confident quirkiness, likeable eccentricity. All in all, through its facets and for its value as a single piece of work it is presented and thought out well. I loved it."
-Ivan1984, Jamendo
