Track Listing

1. Companions
2. Helpless Corpses Enactment
3. Puppet Show
4. Formicary
5. Angle of Repose
6. Ossuary
7. Salt Crown
8. Only Dance
9. Greenless Wreath
10. Widening Eye
11. Putrid Refrain

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14615 in Music
• Released on: 2007-05-29
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Rock-against-Rock pioneers Sleepytime Gorilla Museum celebrate the extremes of sonic debilitation, with this muffled cry into the dark night of the soul. Triumphantly smothered within the intricate stylings of musical evolution, the expansive world of literature and the pain and passion of one's emotions, the Oakland, California-based band have once again imbedded themselves deep in the creative process, allowing themselves to reach new plateaus on their latest album `In Glorious Times.' The band - known for their expressive and wildly entertaining theatrical live shows - gives justice to their eclectic music in the live forum and plan to stay on the road for the most of 2007.

BRAVE WORDS & BLOODY KNUCKLES
Wonderful mess of eccentric tangles

ALL MUSIC GUIDE
For fans of experimental and uncompromising rock, be sure to buy a ticket to this Museum

Customer Reviews

Another amazing album!
Man....these guys can do no wrong! If you haven't heard SGM for yourself, describing them is like trying to explain Hitler to a 4 year old...it's hard to do.

Basically, they are avant-metal...but even that doesn't describe them. They have all the typical 'metal band' instruments, plus a violin plus a bunch of instruments they just flat out invented! This stuff is really high concept. It's so original in every way I just can't get enough of these guys (and girl). If you ever get a chance to see them live, please do so...I saw them in a tiny club in Toledo and it was one of the best shows i've ever seen. Talked with them after the show and they were super cool people as well.

These guys are the real deal. They saved a very mediocre music scene with the most original stuff i've ever heard.

Favorites:

Companions

Salt Crown

Angle of Repose

The Widening Eye

3rd hit album in a row
Yes! I had to listen through a couple of times to be sure, but this is another great and satisfying album, from this at times stunningly powerful, at times intricately delicate, always emotionally moving, weird, unpredictable, theatrical, overall delicious Bay Area weirdo supergroup.

They're on their 3rd exploding drummer, and 2nd percussionist; but these 2 stickmen are good (and even contribute some songwriting), the rest of the jolly crew is intact, and the music is spot on as usual.

If Marilyn Manson, Peter Gabriel, Dagmar & Art Bears (but Carla's electric SGM violin kicks Fred Frith's violin's butt) & King Crimson got squished together in a train wreck, like the old ads for peanut butter & chocolate cups, they might make it onto a little corner, of the inside cover, of a Sleepytime Gorilla Museum album.

oh and speaking of the cover, at last we get more information, this time, than on the first 2 studio albums, on the source of the bizarre, unsettling SGM artwork and strange ideas..... that was Nils' dad, right? I guess it's a family affair.... makes it more real.

And of course if you haven't already picked up their first 2 studio albums "Grand Opening & Closing" and "Of Natural History", be sure to do so too. I'm still not sure what I think of their live album; need to listen to it some more.

And then you'll want to explore the whole extended musical family (that's why I call SGM a "supergroup") -- look up Idiot Flesh, Charming Hostess (check out their version of the Resident's "Working Down Below"), Faun Fables, Carla Kilstedht's solo albums, Moe! and all his collaborators in the Moe!kestra, etc.

Very strange but interesting and talented band
This record grows on you after repeated listens. I can't believe the talent of these musicians! The off-key and off-beat style is not for everyone, but I loved it.

See them live if you get a chance. I saw them in Toledo, it was definitely worth it.