Godspeed the Punchline is an LP by Trumans Water

Trumans Water

Trumans Water is an indie rock band from San Diego, California formed in 1991. They have released over a dozen full length recordings over their career, wherein they collaborated with acts in genre, including Azalia Snail, Chan Marshall and Thurston Moore....

. It was released in January 1994 by Homestead Records

Homestead Records

Homestead Records was a Long Island, NY based sublabel of music distributor Dutch East India Trading. It was founded in 1984 by Sam Berger, who was the American Independent buyer for Dutch East India Trading. Berger was finding that many bands who had perhaps released their own first 45 were...

 in the United States and Elemental Records in the UK. This album was preceded by three other "Godspeed" albums--Godspeed the Static, Godspeed the Vortex and Godspeed the Hemorrhage--all of which featured improvised, lo-fi music. Godspeed the Punchline can probably be considered the proper, studio follow-up to Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass

Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass

Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass is the second album by Trumans Water. It is their first double-album and was released in 1993 on Homestead Records in the United States and Elemental Records in the UK. There is also a Japanese re-release of the album with a radically different tracklisting...

. It is the last studio album recorded with Glen Galloway before he left to form Soul-Junk

Soul-Junk

Soul-Junk is an experimental genre-hopping Christian rock / hip hop group from San Diego, California.-Background:The roots of Soul-Junk began in 1993 when Glen Galloway began experimenting while touring in Europe with his rock band Trumans Water...

. The album was described as "eighteen short blasts of negasonic tumult" by David Sprague of Trouser Press

Trouser Press

Trouser Press was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow Who fan Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" ...

, while Mark Jenkins of The Washington Post

The Washington Post

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stated that the songs "can wander aimlessly or suddenly turn on the siren and race straight to their destination".

Tracklisting

1. "Destroy 1998" - 0:41
2. "Long End of a Firearm" - 4:47
3. "All Wet West of Washington" - 2:29
4. "Hair Junk Fibre" - 1:22
5. "Ungalaxy" - 0:38
6. "Antsmashes Yer Star (Dead Airwaves)" - 3:48
7. "Enflamed" - 3:40
8. "Outpatient Lightspeed" - 2:56
9. "Infinity Times Zero" - 0:13
10. "Sucker Mystique" - 2:10
11. Playboy Stabtone Bloodbath Go" - 2:38
12. "Slander in New Slang" - 2:33
13. "No Big (Wave) Star" - 2:37
14. "Theme of Blast" - 0:34
15. "Fuller Piston Vinegar" - 3:35
16. "22" - 2:33
17. "Horsesense" - 1:54
18. "Spaceship Next Door" - 1:18