Made Flesh is the second album by Extra Life

Extra Life (band)

Extra Life is an experimental band from Brooklyn. They are known for using unusual rhythms and time signatures, and for Charlie Looker's unique singing style, which often uses melisma and is reminiscent of medieval and Renaissance music.Other members of Extra Life also play in a number of other...

. According to Rock-A-Rolla magazine, the album is "darker, harder and bleaker" than its predecessor Secular Works

Secular Works

-Track listing:#"Blackmail Blues" - 8:54#"I Don't See It That Way" - 8:02#"I'll Burn" - 10:22#"The Refrain" - 2:55#"This Time" - 10:04#"See You At The Show" - 7:52#"Bled White" - 2:23-Personnel:Charlie Looker: Guitar, Vocals...

 . Writing in The Quietus

The Quietus

The Quietus is a British online rock music and pop culture magazine, focusing on arts news, reviews, and features. The site is an editorially independent publication led by John Doran and a group of freelance journalists and critics, some of whom have worked for other media outlets...

, Noel Gardner said "I heard over a thousand other albums in 2010, and none of them made as lasting an impression as this one, or sounded so little like anything else currently being made and described as 'rock music'...the best album of [2010]."

Track listing

1. "Voluptuous Life" – 2:07
2. "The Ladder" – 6:27
3. "Made Flesh " – 4:57
4. "One Of Your Whores " – 5:03
5. "Easter" – 6:13
6. "Black Hoodie " – 3:24
7. "Head Shrinker" – 4:07
8. "The Body Is True" – 11:15

A music video has been made for "Head Shrinker".

Personnel

Charlie Looker

Charlie Looker

Charlie Looker is a New York City based musician, who has many releases under different names. He has had positive coverage in local media, as well as web media. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University ....

: Guitar

Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

, Vocals

Travis Laplante: keyboards

Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

, tenor sax, EWI

EWI

EWI is the name of AKAI's wind controller, an electronic musical instrument invented by Nyle Steiner. The early models consisted of two parts: a wind controller and a synthesizer. The current model, EWI4000S, combines the two parts into one, placing the synthesizer in the lower section of the...

Anthony Gedrich: bass

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

, contrabass

Contrabass

Contrabass refers to a musical instrument of very low pitch; generally those pitched one octave below instruments of the bass register...

Nick Podgurski: drums, percussion


Guest musicians:

Ian Antonio: glockenspiel

Glockenspiel

A glockenspiel is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, and making it a metallophone...

, vibraphone

Vibraphone

The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family....

, crotales

Crotales

thumb|right|Crotales are often used with other mallet percussionCrotales , sometimes called antique cymbals, are percussion instruments consisting of small, tuned bronze or brass disks. Each is about 4 inches in diameter with a flat top surface and a nipple on the base. They are commonly...

, woodblock

Woodblock

Woodblock may refer to:* The wood block, a percussion instrument* A woodblock or woodcut is used in woodblock printing, a method of printing in which an image is carved into the surface of a piece of wood, which is then inked, and the image is stamped onto a page* Woodblock graffiti is a type of...

Larkin Grimm

Larkin Grimm

Larkin Grimm is an American singer-songwriter and musician born in Memphis, Tennessee.She was born into a monastic order called Holy Order of MANS...

: backing vocals on "One of Your Whores" and "Head Shrinker".


All music and lyrics by Charlie Looker.