Godspeed the Vortex is an album 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 on vinyl in 1993 and on CD in 1994 (with bonus tracks) by Negative Way Out Records, and is the second in a series of three "Godspeed" albums, all featuring improvised music. (The other improvised albums are Godspeed the Static and Godspeed the Hemorrhage; Godspeed the Punchline

Godspeed the Punchline

Godspeed the Punchline is an LP by Trumans Water. It was released in January 1994 by Homestead Records 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...

contains full-blown, studio-recorded songs). 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" ...

said of the album: "Riddled with intriguingly abrasive guitar figures that apply Eastern modality ("Syrup Is Tangled") and post-Sharrock prolapse ("True-Star Down"), the album shifts from ambient to demanding with pinpoint precision", while Allmusic's Skip Jansen described it as "Eleven stabs of ecstatic lo-fi noise and avant-rock moves".

Tracklisting

1. "Total X-Stasis" - 0:32
2. "Odor is Free" - 9:20
3. "Syrup is Tangled" - 4:01
4. "Swordfish in the Trees" - 6:57
5. "Ominous Blips Fore" - 3:38
6. "True-Star Down" - 3:37
7. "New Rupture" - 2:16
8. "Soup of Volts" - 2:01
9. "New Rapture" - 0:24
10. "Ominous Blips Aft" - 4:13
11. "Freon" - 1:48

CD-only bonus tracks

1. "Wayout No. 7" - 11:38
2. "The 20 Minute Song" - 19:38

Track listing notes: "Wayout No. 7" is the catalog number for the Jubileeee 7" EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

(1992), also released by Negative Way Out Records. This track contains all the music from that release.