Seven Percent Solution

Rolling Stone Magazine The U.S.space-rock program: Never mind those pictures from Mars; they look like holiday snaps from Dry Gulch,Ariz. More impressive are the mercury-bubble pools of guitar and the shattered-glass sparkle of the choruses on All About Satellites and Spaceships (x-ray,cd),by the Texas-based quartet 7% Solution.(Rock-crit sound bite: More-era Pink Floyd through soft light.)And you have to admire the band's generosity: The package includes a second copy of the album to pass on to a friend...... -David Fricke-Rolling Stone online "Albums That Mattered '98" MADONNA - Ray of LightLAUREN HILL - Miseducation of Lauren HillJEFF BUCKLEY - SketchesAIR - Moon Safari7% SOLUTION - All About Satellites and SpaceshipsBEASTIE BOYS - Hello Nasty- ARI BENDERSKI - The Austin Chronicle The most important credit on GABRIEL'S WALTZ - certainly the most revealing - "inspiration: Anne Sexton" defines Seven Percent Solution's long-awaited second album just as Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space defined an entire modern rock movement. One of the most extraordinary American poets of the 20th century, Sexton was both brillant and beautiful, a powerfully candid woman defined by her confessionalism, who killed herself in 1974 at the age of 45. Like this Austin quartet's debut, ALL ABOUT SATELLITES AND SPACESHIPS, a shimmering Pink-Eno exploration of infinite guitar ambience, GABRIEL'S WALTZ spins its song cycle into - or out of - one longer, thematic poem which serves as the album's gravitational center. Starting with the opener "Dear Anne" (Save me from my failing), the band's three-guitar mission revolves around collapsing seperate melodies into a dense black (w)hole of sound and emotion. Thus, "The End Of Faith" ("I'm beyond repair/washed out to sea"), "Bruise" ("Carry the love,carry it alone"), "Lullaby" ("If you dream tonight, I'll be near by") "The Innocentes" ("When I'm no more, no more sight, no more darkness, no more light"), and finally "Dust and Ashes" ("When I think it through,I never asked for you") blur into a long, languorous journey of pinging, ringing riffs. When the instrumental title track abruptly cuts off at album's end and you're left with the epitaph "I'm so tired and soul-sick" at the bottom of the lyrics, this elegiac spellbinder continues another 20 or so seconds in silence before ending - like it's life has been cut off. In space, no one can hear your heart break.-Raoul Hernandez-..This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editor™ width="425" height="350" .. .. width="425" height="350" ..