When the Red King Comes

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Critical reception

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)."<ref name="TP">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Chicago Tribune thought that "in Elf Power's hands, psychedelia is a means of transforming personal trauma into a twisted kind of triumph."<ref name=CT/>

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."<ref name="auto"/>

Personnel

• Andrew Rieger - guitars, vocals, flute, zanzitophone, keyboards, bass, percussion
• Laura Carter - keyboards, vocals, Moog synthesizer, zanzithophone, loops
• Bryan Helium - bass, vocals, guitar, sitar, keyboards
• Aaron Wegelin - drums, vocals, percussion

References

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