Giant Claw – Erasers Fantasy
Prog rock for a scattershot, disenfranchised, noise-loving modern age. Featuring two members of Yakuza Heart Attack, Giant Claw have made a super rock symphony; a fantasy world described entirely through drums and synthesizers. It’s crackling in-the-red Doom, Tchaikovsky with a distortion pedal and a machine gun, a brooding audio cartoon without any erasers.
01 Erasers Fantasy Pt. I
02 Erasers Fantasy Pt. II
03 Erasers Fantasy Pt. III
04 Erasers Fantasy Pt. IV
05 Erasers Fantasy Pt. V
06 Erasers Fantasy Pt. VI
07 Erasers Fantasy Pt. VII
Artwork by Deth P Sun
May 18th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Absolutely insane work, guys. Just absolutely insane.
May 18th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
This is NUTS, I love it!!
May 18th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
This album is super good! I’ve been playing it for months and it still is only getting better with each listen.
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May 19th, 2010 at 7:22 am
this is completely fucked up and awesome
May 19th, 2010 at 11:23 am
Anyone else having trouble with the MP3 zip?
May 19th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
I’m a minute into the first song… Wow. This is awesome.
May 19th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Oi! Ow, ow, ow. My ears.
I’m glad other people like it, but man, not my style at all.
May 20th, 2010 at 1:21 am
Guys, in my opinion you have overdone.
May 20th, 2010 at 7:15 am
Prog rock for a scattershot, disenfranchised, noise-loving modern age, eh? ;p sounds like 70s ital-prog meets the toy prog of 80s japan. that’s not to say this ain’t amazing, though!
May 20th, 2010 at 10:12 am
This is disgusting. In a great way.
May 20th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
@craig: Only if your trying to play the files while their still inside the zip. Extracting them to a folder should solve that problem. And then be sure and close the zip file when your done extracting it. But yeah, I had a little trouble too.
May 26th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
Ugh. A horrible departure from II’s regular fare…
May 27th, 2010 at 2:30 am
Hah!
May 27th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Meh, it was okay. I admire the amount of skill it must have taken to make this, its very complex. However, I didn’t really enjoy the album because it was too crazy with the rythems and stuff and I couldn’t really follow anything (I listen to Dev/Null, but that’s a special exception haha). I really enjoyed III however.
May 28th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
I’m glad some people are voicing their opinions on this one. It’s interesting to get some perspective!
June 2nd, 2010 at 9:29 am
This is the chiptune record I’ve been waiting for. Stellar.
June 5th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
How can anyone hate this? There are definitely a few Pause records that bore me, but this is far far FAR from them. Really well crafted tunes here.
June 8th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Reminds me of TARKUS
June 10th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
i have listened to this album at least 10 times today. fuck its good. when i first got it, i LIKED it, but was kind of not SUPER into it, but today, its really clicked with me. goddamn. its like ELP on meth.
June 11th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Whoa, this is really killer! Not at all what I expected. As a fan of old-school Genesis (the band) and King Crimson, this is really hitting the spot.
June 14th, 2010 at 9:34 am
haha i like how seanbutnotheard had to clarify what he meant by Genesis. gotta know your audience
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THIS ALBUM IS STILL SLAYING ME.
June 15th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
Pretty uncommon. Nice.
June 16th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
i listened to this in Sweden a bunch when my girlfriend would go and practice singing and i’d get in the shower. I dug it a lot then and i bet i’ll dig it even more now.
June 19th, 2010 at 11:37 am
Bach meets Nintendo meets Susumu Hirasawa. This is wonderfully crazy and highly irregular! This goes straight into my japanese music collection.
June 19th, 2010 at 11:50 am
It’s not japanese
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July 6th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
This is pure awesomeness, to me, this is among the best entries of this label. Great originality and I’m addicted to that refresh 70′s prog-rock sound. I’d be happy to have a CD of this album!
July 20th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
July 21st, 2010 at 9:49 am
Probably one of the best things I’ve ever heard–and I have no idea why.
July 28th, 2010 at 12:52 am
amazing album!!
July 28th, 2010 at 1:09 am
Forget the last comment – I just listened to it again on huge PAs and it’s blowing my mind. It’s like if the members of Goblin got trapped inside a synth chip and had to battle their way out. absolutely epic record.