The Great One Is Dead, by Saccharine Trust

The Great One Is Dead

by Saccharine Trust

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Matthew T Grant I love this album because I love Saccharine Trust. In fact, I have loved this group for close to 40 years. I was unaware of this albums existence and am so glad I picked it up. It is solid as a rock.

Porkandham The final album (so far) from Saccharine Trust features their longest running lineup, and is by far a definitive statement of what this band is. Elements from all their previous releases are seen, with the punk dissonance of Paganicons, the biblical insanity of Surviving You Always, the dark poetry of Worldbroken and the jazzpunk fusion of We Became Snakes. The Great One Is Dead takes all of these and improves upon them, many of these psychedelic jazzpunk tracks serving as essential ST content. Favorite track: The Sadness of Apollo.

Carmabum This album takes no prisoners. A classic from Saccharine Trust and a must for any and every ST fan!

Wade T This is the best Saccharine Trust album, better than PaganIcons, better than Worldbroken, better than Past Lives, better than We Became Snakes, better than any compilations they showed up on, better than their live show recording in North Carolina. Saccharine Trust are a unique proposition though, and probably should be listened to chronologically. Or maybe backwards? Saccharine Trust got their name from a Bowie lyric, though you wouldn't know it... Favorite track: Reggie's Plateau.

Andy Shelton The lyrics by Jack Brewer are amazing and the playing by Baiza and the others in the band is a great combination of psychedelic music, funk groove and memorable jazz meets punk tunes. Hope that makes sense. Favorite track: Neruda's Wave.

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	1.	The Sinister Rain 03:40
	2.	Grotian's Phraseology 00:57
	3.	The Sadness of Apollo 03:42
	4.	Legends Die Behind the Wheel, at Least 01:32
	5.	Neruda's Wave 02:24
	6.	Birthing the Ancestors 02:57
	7.	Antecedent Satisfaction 00:39
	8.	This Is Wilmington 03:00
	9.	Nocturnal Ballets 03:28
	10.	Reggie's Plateau 04:15
	11.	Untitled No. 2 (I Gave Another Dimension the Slip) 01:56
	12.	Ordinary Calvinistic 00:55
	13.	Untitled No. 1 (the Creative Fluctuation) 04:06
	14.	The Great One Is Dead 04:19
	15.	Water on the Dance Floor 02:09
	16.	Against Faustus 00:57
	17.	Resuscitate the Worm 03:40
	18.	Now That You're Dead 02:26

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released June 17, 2017

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All songs recorded, mixed and produced by
Joe Baiza and Gordon Friedrich
at Hazelwood Studios in Frankfurt, Germany

Illustrations by Joe Baiza

Cover Design by Craig Ibarra

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Jack Brewer - vocals
Joe Baiza - guitar, vocals
Chris Stein - bass
Brian Christopherson - drums

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