When the Red King Comes
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| When the Red King Comes | ||||
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| Released | 1997 | |||
| Recorded | 1996–1997 | |||
| Genre | Indie pop, indie rock | |||
| Length | 39:47 | |||
| Label | Arena Rock Recording Co.[1] | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| Chicago Tribune | [3] |
When the Red King Comes is the second album by the Elephant 6 band Elf Power.[4][5] It is a concept album about the Red King's kingdom. The cover art is taken from a section of an imaginary map called “The Land of Make Believe”, drawn in 1930 by Jaro Hess. A more complete version of the map can be seen in The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands.
"Needles in the Camel's Eyes" is a cover of the Brian Eno song.[6]
Trouser Press wrote that "though still noisy, the improved sound coincides with a sharper focus in the songwriting (that's good) and the first hint of impending mythological obsessions (not so good)."[1] The Chicago Tribune thought that "in Elf Power's hands, psychedelia is a means of transforming personal trauma into a twisted kind of triumph."[3]
AllMusic wrote that "the fuzzy, lo-fi production is an Elephant 6 hallmark, but the unique instrumentation (electric horns, pump organs, even Nepalese percussion) and cryptic, stream-of-consciousness wordplay suggest something altogether different."[2]
