The Electric Lucifer

Bruce Haack - The Electric Lucifer
Critic Score
Based on 3 reviews
1970 Ratings: #41 / 161
User Score
Based on 33 ratings
1970 Rank: #232
Liked by 1 person
May 1, 1970 / Release Date
LP / Format
Columbia / Label
Sign In to rate and review
flyguts
90

hey guys im Mr. Krabs

m0nkey
85

Coming from someone who’s been sober all his life; is this what acid is like?

A lot of electronic albums from this era are pretty surreal, but this might take the cake as the most bizarre project I’ve heard from this field. Not only is the dense gumbo of synths that make up the instrumentation absolutely hypnotic, but Bruce Haack paints some beautifully strange mental pictures with the delightfully esoteric lyrics his fucked up mind conjured up. It creates a perfectly clear vision ... read more

usedtobe
88

Canadian composer Bruce Haack leds a double life. At daytime, he writes musical compositions for kids alike and by night time, he is a psychedelic nomad ready to unleash his inner demons. This bizarre outsider- psych rock project is ahead of its time without fail in its uninhibited raga atmosphere, early electronic experimentation and wah-wah vocals relatively a trademark of the sound during this time - the 60s-70s. Overall, this is an innovative piece of early psychedelia worth checking out.

Purchasing The Electric Lucifer from Amazon helps support Album of the Year. Or consider a donation?
Contributions By
jed1mark, Hudok
Become a Donor
Donor badge, no ads + more benefits.
Advertisement

Track List

  1. Electric To Me Turn
  2. The Word (Narration)
  3. Cherubic Hymn
  4. Program Me
  5. War
  6. National Anthem To The Moon
  7. Chant Of The Unborn
  8. Incantation
  9. Angel Child
  10. Word Game
  11. Song Of The Death Machine
  12. Super Nova
  13. Requiem
Comments
Sign in to comment
No one has said anything yet.


Added on: October 5, 2016