| Intimate Lightning | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Neptune |
| Cover: | NeptuneIntimateLightning Cover.jpg |
| Released: | March 20, 2004 |
| Recorded: | 2003 |
| Studio: | BC Studio, Gowanus, Brooklyn, New York City |
| Length: | 36:59 |
| Label: | Mr. Records (CD) / 100% Breakfast (LP) |
| Producer: | Martin Bisi / Neptune |
Intimate Lightning is the third full-length album by American noise rock band Neptune, released on March 20, 2004, by Mr. Records (CD) / 100% Breakfast Records (LP).
Pitchfork writer Joe Tangari described the album's songs as "tightly wound nailbombs of rapidly shifting meters, clanging rhythms, and mathtacular start/stop passages designed for maximum sensory damage. Sanford's vocals are secondary, it seems, to the grotesque clatter surrounding them - he whispers and growls squarely in the middle of the mix, perfectly content to let the pummeling grooves overwhelm his Dadaist lyrics." In Chicago-based independent music magazine Punk Planet's 62nd issue, reviewer Rex Reason stated while attempting to review Intimate Lightning: “The use of certain comparisons is warned against when reviewing records. At the top of the list are “if Band A and Band B had a baby…” and “if Band A and Band B were in a blender…” This record sounds like a swarm of insects making a baby with a band in a blender.”[1]
Intimate Lightning was issued on CD by Boston, MA independent label Mr. Records. The LP version was released by Cambridge, MA independent record label 100% Breakfast Records and was pressed on white vinyl. Due to several production errors at the pressing plant, only 141 copies of the Intimate Lightning LP were released.[2]
On the vinyl version, side A ends in a locked groove with the culmination of the track "At The Pink Pony".On the CD version, "At The Pink Pony" slowly cross-fades into the next track "Automatic".
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