''Doomsday Afternoon'' is the sixth studio album by

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musician

Phideaux Xavier Phideaux Xavier (born Scott Riggs; January 14, 1963) is an American television director, and composer of modern technological music that he describes as 'psychedelic progressive gothic rock', who grew up near New York City but now lives in Los ...

, and the second part of his projected "Trilogy" of albums dealing with "Big Brother" authoritarianism and

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, after part one, '' The Great Leap''. It features more elaborate

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song structures, similar to ''

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'' and his next two albums. To date, this is his most well known and critically acclaimed album, and Phideaux Xavier considers it to be his "masterpiece".

Track listing

Act One

#"Micro Softdeathstar" - 11:17 #"The Doctrine of Eternal Ice (Part One)" - 3:01 #"Candybrain" - 4:06 #"Crumble" - 2:55 #"The Doctrine of Eternal Ice (Part Two)" - 8:08

Act Two

#"Thank You for the Evil" - 9:18 #"A Wasteland of Memories" - 2:22 #"Crumble" - 2:55 #"Formaldehyde" - 8:17 #"Microdeath Softstar" - 14:40

Personnel

*Rich Hutchins –

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*Ariel Farber –

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, handclaps *Valerie Gracious –

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, vocals *Mathew Kennedy –

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*Gabriel Moffat –

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, solo &

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, textures, treatments, transitions *Linda Ruttan Moldawsky – vocals *Molly Ruttan – vocals *Mark Sherkus –

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, korg KARMA, sampler *

–

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, moog voyager, 6 &

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, vocals

References

Phideaux Xavier albums 2007 albums {{2007-rock-album-stub