''7-Toku'' is the second album by

Space Streakings ''Space Streakings'' was a noise rock band from Japan formed in 1993 by four video game programmers. That year the band issued its debut album, '' Hatsukoi'', through NUX Organization. The Space Streakings then signed with Skin Graft Records, wh ...

. It was released on October 3, 1994, by Skin Graft Records.

Critical reception

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'' called the album "a vivid new listening experience rather than a formulaic copy of a western style." ''

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'' wrote: "Far more boisterous and a lot less methodical than American industrialists, the quartet rushes in and around its tracks, layering bits on to a point of distraction in which chaos would come as a welcome relief." The ''

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'' wrote that the album "finds this whacked foursome proffering more cartoonish, progged-out approximations of the infinitely superior Boredoms."

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from ''7-Toku'' liner notes. Space Streakings * Captain Insect – bass guitar, vocals, programming * Kame Bazooka –

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, vocals,

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* Karate Condor –

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, vocals, guitar * Screaming Stomach – guitar, vocals, trumpet, kazoo Production and design * Steve Albini – production,

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, recording * Nobtack Koike –

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, illustrations

Release history

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1994 albums Albums produced by Steve Albini Skin Graft Records albums Space Streakings albums