Intimate Lightning

Intimate Lightning is the third full-length album by American noise rock band Neptune, released on March 20, 2004, by Mr. Records (CD) / 100% Breakfast Records (LP).

Reception
Pitchfork writer Joe Tangari described the album's songs as "tightly wound nailbombs of rapidly shifting meters, clanging rhythms, and mathtacular start/stop passages designed for maximum sensory damage. Sanford's vocals are secondary, it seems, to the grotesque clatter surrounding them - he whispers and growls squarely in the middle of the mix, perfectly content to let the pummeling grooves overwhelm his Dadaist lyrics." In Chicago-based independent music magazine Punk Planet's 62nd issue, reviewer Rex Reason stated while attempting to review Intimate Lightning: “The use of certain comparisons is warned against when reviewing records. At the top of the list are “if Band A and Band B had a baby…” and “if Band A and Band B were in a blender…” This record sounds like a swarm of insects making a baby with a band in a blender.”

Packaging
Intimate Lightning was issued on CD by Boston, MA independent label Mr. Records. The LP version was released by Cambridge, MA independent record label 100% Breakfast Records and was pressed on white vinyl. Due to several production errors at the pressing plant, only 141 copies of the Intimate Lightning LP were released.

Side A ends with a locked groove.

Personnel
Neptune
 * Jason Sidney Sanford – guitar, vocals
 * Mark William Pearson – bass, vocals
 * John Douglas Manson – drums, vocals
 * Daniel Paul Boucher - percussion, violin, backing vocals

Production
 * Martin Bisi - recording, mixing engineer
 * Neptune - mixing, production
 * John Jacobson - mastering (Sound Station Seven, Providence, Rhode Island)

Packaging & Design
 * James Quigley - illustration, layout