Doomsday Afternoon Explained

Doomsday Afternoon
Type:	Album
Artist:	Phideaux Xavier
Cover:	PhideauxXavier-DoomsdayAfternoon.jpg
Released:	June 21, 2007 ^[1]
Genre:	Progressive rock Psychedelic rock
Length:	66:59
Label:	Bloodfish Media
Producer:	Gabriel Moffat
Prev Title:	The Great Leap
Prev Year:	2006
Next Title:	Number Seven
Next Year:	2009

Doomsday Afternoon is the sixth studio album by American musician Phideaux Xavier, and the second part of his projected "Trilogy" of albums dealing with "Big Brother" authoritarianism and ecological crisis, after part one, The Great Leap. It features more elaborate progressive rock song structures, similar to Chupacabras and his next two albums. To date, this is his most well known and critically acclaimed album, and Phideaux Xavier considers it to be his "masterpiece".

Track listing

Act One

1. "Micro Softdeathstar" - 11:17
2. "The Doctrine of Eternal Ice (Part One)" - 3:01
3. "Candybrain" - 4:06
4. "Crumble" - 2:55
5. "The Doctrine of Eternal Ice (Part Two)" - 8:08

Act Two

1. "Thank You for the Evil" - 9:18
2. "A Wasteland of Memories" - 2:22
3. "Crumble" - 2:55
4. "Formaldehyde" - 8:17
5. "Microdeath Softstar" - 14:40

Personnel

• Rich Hutchins – drums
• Ariel Farber – vocals, handclaps
• Valerie Gracious – piano, vocals
• Mathew Kennedy – bass guitar
• Gabriel Moffat – lap steel guitar, solo & electric guitar, textures, treatments, transitions
• Linda Ruttan Moldawsky – vocals
• Molly Ruttan – vocals
• Mark Sherkus – hammond B3, minimoog, ARP string ensemble, korg KARMA, sampler
• Phideaux Xavier – piano, rhodes, moog voyager, 6 & 12 string guitar, vocals

Notes and References

1. Web site: Doomsday Afternoon | Phideaux . 2014-03-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140316211404/http://www.bloodfish.com/phideaux/albums/lastest-albums/doomsday-afternoon/ . 2014-03-16 .