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Tick Tock

A four-piece concept album built around Saint-Exupery's desert crash.
Gazpacho, 2009

The four compositions in order are "Desert Flight", "The Walk" (two parts), "Tick Tock" (three parts) and "Winter Is Never". Progarchy hears ticking clock percussion throughout the title piece, a Gregorian-sounding chant near the end of Part I, a darker mood in Part II and Part III suggesting the characters are hallucinating, and called the album every bit as good as Night, a must-own masterpiece. A listing gives the part times as 7:17, 9:39 and 5:37, which sums to 22:33 against Wikipedia's 22:24. The Denver Clarion's Devin Pitts-Rogers found the professionalism worth the price but some songs weaker, and heard a singer resembling Muse's Chris Wolstenholme. We could not find a producer, studio or recording dates. Reissues followed in 2013, 2016 and 2018.

Track listing

  1. Desert Flight
  2. The Walk
  3. Tick Tock22:24
  4. Winter Is Never

More from Gazpacho

Bravo (2003), When Earth Lets Go (2004), Firebird (2005), Night (2007), Missa Atropos (2010), A Night At Loreley (2010), March Of Ghosts (2012), Demon (2014), Molok (2015), Soyuz (2018), Fireworker (2020), Fireworking At St. Croix (2022), Magic 8-Ball (2025)

Sources

  1. Tick Tock, Progarchy
  2. The early years, 1996-2001, Gazpacho
  3. Gazpacho (band), Wikipedia