When the Red King Comes
When the Red King Comes is the second album by the Elephant 6 band Elf Power. It is a concept album about the Red King's kingdom. The cover art is taken from a section of an imaginary map called “The Land of Make Believe”, drawn in 1930 by Jaro Hess. A more complete version of the map can be seen in "The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands". "Needles in the Camels Eyes" is a cover of the Brian Eno song. Critical reception. "Trouser Press" wrote that "though still noisy, the improved  sound coincides with a sharper focus in the songwriting (that's good) and the first hint of impending mythological obsessions (not so good)." The "Chicago Tribune" thought that "in Elf Power's hands, psychedelia is a means of transforming personal trauma into a twisted kind of triumph." AllMusic wrote that "the fuzzy, lo-fi production is an Elephant 6 hallmark, but the unique instrumentation (electric horns, pump organs, even Nepalese percussion) and cryptic, stream-of-consciousness wordplay suggest something altogether different." Track listing. All songs written by Andrew Rieger unless otherwise noted.