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Classic Album Review: Seven Percent Solution | Gabriel’s Waltz

The Austin indie-rockers take you on a meditative journey to your inner space.

This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


Most space-rock bands try to take you upward, outward and beyond the stars.

By contrast, Austin, Tex., quintet Seven Percent Solution seems more interesting in taking you on a 47-minute trip to your inner space. This meditative and introspective album is a quiet and contemplative affair — the echoing jingle-jangle of gently strummed guitars, the muted thud and ping of tastefully restrained drumming and the pensive brood of shoegazing lyrics such as “I’m so tired and soul-sick” carry us along gently on Gabriel’s Waltz, never prodding nor tugging yet somehow tantalizing us to keep pace till the music ends.