Lapsed LP/CD

Lapsed (CD front cover)

Released by Matador Records (OLE 210) in October 1997.

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The absolutely brutal 2nd release on Matador. This is Bardo at their fiercest and at their most refined. Stunning record, and it gets even better live.

Similar to the treatment they gave Amanita, Drunken Fish Records hits the nail on the head when they describe Lapsed as:

"The fourth album of resin-slogged, lid-heavy, and wah-blown, psychedelic-gone jamming from Philadelphia's acolytes of multi-dimensional, slumber-fuzz travel, takes another toad-secreted High Mass communion, and spirits off on a numb-rock excursion to out-there. A satisfyingly repetitive, slow-fuck voyage to God."

Online reviews

Neil Gladstone, Philadelphia City Paper, October 16-23, 1997

Tad Hendrickson, CMJ New Music Report Issue #543, October 27, 1997

Mark Woodlief, The Worchester Phoenix, November 14-21, 1997

Glenn McDonald, The War Against Silence Issue #160, February 19, 1998

Mikel Dimmick, The Music Monitor, February 1998

Charles D.J. Deppner, Ink Nineteen, February 1998

Pearson Greer, Opus

Archived reviews

Carl Ehrhardt, The Yale Herald, October 17, 1997

Anthony Carew, Gravity Girl, November 1997

Paul Mergler, Exclaim!, February 1998

G. Beato, Addicted to Noise

Lee Jackson, Broken Face

Jen, WHUS-FM magazine