{{Refimprove|date=May 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = In Glorious Times | type = studio | artist = Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | cover = inglorioustimes.jpg | alt = | released = May 29, 2007 | recorded = 2005–2007 | venue = | studio = *Polymorph Recording, Oakland *Tiny Telephone, San Francisco | genre = Experimental rock, avant-garde metal, progressive rock, progressive metal | length = 67:45 | label = The End Records <br /> Blood Music (vinyl reissue) | producer = | prev_title = Of Natural History | prev_year = 2004 | next_title = Of the Last Human Being | next_year = 2024 }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/in-glorious-times-mw0000779149|title=In Glorious Times - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum ... |website=AllMusic|access-date=May 29, 2025}}</ref> |rev2 = SonicFrontiers.net |rev2score = (8.8/10)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ww38.sonicfrontiers.net/php/review-97.html |title=Sonicfrontiers.net |access-date=May 29, 2025 |archive-date=June 24, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250624114248/http://ww38.sonicfrontiers.net/php/review-97.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> }}<!-- Automatically generated by DASHBot-->
'''''In Glorious Times''''' is the third studio album by avant-rock/metal band Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. The album was released on May 29, 2007.<ref name="endrecords-1">{{Cite web |url=http://www.theendrecords.com/label/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=875&Itemid=49 |title=Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's upcoming 'In Glorious Times' now available for pre-order |access-date=2007-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235816/http://www.theendrecords.com/label/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=875&Itemid=49 |archive-date=2007-09-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
About the album, The End Records has stated: {{Cquote|Rock-against-Rock pioneers Sleepytime Gorilla Museum celebrate the extremes of sonic debilitation, with this muffled cry into the dark night of the soul. Triumphantly smothered within the intricate stylings of musical evolution, the expansive world of literature and the pain and passion of one’s emotions, the Oakland, California-based band have once again imbedded themselves deep in the creative process, allowing themselves to reach new plateaus on their latest album ‘In Glorious Times.’<ref name="endrecords-2">{{Cite web |url=http://www.theendrecords.com/label/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=851&Itemid=49 |title=Archived copy |access-date=May 1, 2007 |archive-date=September 26, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235802/http://www.theendrecords.com/label/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=851&Itemid=49 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
Drums are performed by Matthias Bossi, replacing Frank Grau. Bossi also performs on the Museum's subsequent "reunion" album, 'Of The Last Human Being'.
==Song information== === Helpless Corpses Enactment=== Prior to the album's release, the track "Helpless Corpses Enactment" was made available for download.<ref name="HCE-mp3">{{Cite web |url=http://media.theendrecords.com/SleepytimeGorillaMuseum_InGloriousTimes_HelplessCorpsesEnactment.mp3 |title=Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Helpless Corpses Enactment.mp3 |access-date=2007-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235607/http://media.theendrecords.com/SleepytimeGorillaMuseum_InGloriousTimes_HelplessCorpsesEnactment.mp3 |archive-date=2007-09-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On May 22, 2007, one week before the album's release, a video for the same song was also released.<ref name="HCE-video">{{YouTube|ELyco68w5ks|Helpless Corpses Enactment video}}</ref> It was directed by Adam Feinstein.
{{Cquote|"I've been fascinated with SGM since I first heard them five years ago. I found their music inscrutable, beautiful, and profoundly original. [...] When we started to talk about a music video, I didn't know what song I'd be asked to work on. But from Sleepytime I knew to expect music that had invented its own rules, music that would challenge a video to keep up with it. 'Corpses' didn't disappoint! None of us wanted anything like a concert film - didn't want to see mic stands, guitars, drums. Nobody really even liked the term 'music video.' We didn't want to simulate what you could see at a live show. I wanted to use the opportunity to tap the peculiar power of Sleepytime's music - to conjure up images as strange and direct as those in dreams."<ref name="endrecords-3">[http://www.theendrecords.com/label/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=887&Itemid=49] {{dead link|date=May 2025}}</ref>|||- Adam Feinstein}}
The lyrics for "Helpless Corpses Enactment" are taken from the book ''Finnegans Wake'' by James Joyce.
==Track listing== {{track listing | extra_column = Song | title1 = The Companions | extra1 = Nils Frykdahl | lyrics1 = | music1 = Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | length1 = 10:04 | title2 = Helpless Corpses Enactment | extra2 = | lyrics2 = James Joyce | music2 = Nils Frykdahl | length2 = 5:57 | title3 = Puppet Show | extra3 = | lyrics3 = Matthias Bossi | music3 = Matthias Bossi | length3 = 4:15 | title4 = Formicary | extra4 = | lyrics4 = Dan Rathbun | music4 = Dan Rathbun | length4 = 5:46 | title5 = Angle of Repose | extra5 = | lyrics5 = Carla Kihlstedt and Louise Bourgeois | music5 = Carla Kihlstedt | length5 = 7:53 | title6 = Ossuary | extra6 = | lyrics6 = Michael Mellender | music6 = Michael Mellender | length6 = 4:35 | title7 = The Salt Crown | extra7 = Nils Frykdahl | lyrics7 = | music7 = Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | length7 = 8:40 | title8 = The Only Dance | extra8 = | lyrics8 = Carla Kihlstedt and Wallace Stevens | music8 = Matthias Bossi | length8 = 4:20 | title9 = The Greenless Wreath | extra9 = Nils Frykdahl | lyrics9 = | music9 = Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | length9 = 6:51 | title10 = The Widening Eye | extra10 = | lyrics10 = | music10 = Michael Mellender | length10 = 5:09 | title11 = The Putrid Refrain | extra11 = | lyrics11 = | music11 = | length11 = 2:55 }}
==Personnel== The instruments listed here are as they appear in the booklet of the cd. * Matthias Bossi: drums, piano, glockenspiel, xylophone * Michael Iago Mellender: percussion, trumpet, guitar, Lever-action lever, Vatican, Valhalla, xylophone, toy piano, Tangularium, Electric Pancreas * Carla Kihlstedt: violin, Percussion-guitar, bass harmonica, nyckelharpa * Nils Frykdahl: guitar, Percussion-guitar * Dan Rathbun: bass, Sledgehammer-dulcimer, Thing All sing.
* Guest Voices: Dawn McCarthy (track 2), The Billy Nayer Show, Joel, Allen, Olivia (track 3), Marc "Fushler" Goodman, Ian Pelicci (track 7)
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==External links== * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20010804201929/http://www.sleepytimegorillamuseum.com/ Sleepytime Gorilla Museum]}} official page * [http://www.theendrecords.com The End Records] Label * {{YouTube|ELyco68w5ks|Helpless Corpses Enactment}} * {{YouTube|nX67nl-esFg|Widening Eye}} * [http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=15202 SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM - In Glorious Times (2007)] Prog Archives Review & Information
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