ARTIST: Bound Stems
TITLE: Appreciation Night
LABEL: Flameshovel Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 206kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 47m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-09-19
RIP DATE: 2006-08-29
Track List
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1. Appreciation Night 0:26
2. Andover 4:20
3. Western Biographic 2:37
4. Wake Up, Ma And Pa Are Gone 4:34
5. At What Point Did You Stop 3:49
Believing Me
6. Pulling On Pigtails 0:38
7. Excellent News, Colonel 4:32
8. This Is Grand 2:57
9. Fire, Burglary, Flood 1:42
10. Risking Life And Limb For The 4:23
Coupon
11. Book Of Baby Names 2:18
12. Refuse The Refuse 4:11
13. Walter Waters Addresses The 1:54
Bonus Army
14. Rented A Tent (A Tent, A Tent) 4:39
15. 55 Cross St. 4:42
Release Notes:
http://www.boundstems.com/
http://www.myspace.com/boundstems
http://www.flameshovel.com/
Appreciation Night was two years in the making; the songs themselves cover a
dozen decades. Chicago is the album's host city, where the Civil War blends with
the roar of the elevated train and the songs' edges are embroidered with the
found sounds of airport patter and clattering turnstiles, parties, private
conversations, snow crunch and drifting histories. Produced by Tim Sandusky and
Evan at Chicago's Studio Ballistico, Appreciation Night is a large and complex
album in which each song could as easily be a story as a chapter. Mathy, too:
opener "Andover" hides tricky time signatures under a warm patchwork blanket of
vocal melody, and "This Is Grand" rolls sevens hard against sixes. There's
history rock ("Walter Waters Addresses the Bonus Army"), lit. rock ("Rented a
Tent"), and social studies pop ("Wake Up, Ma & Pa Are Gone"), and each song
contains moments of fierce, earnest success, where all of Bound Stems' sonic
experiments converge and fall into crashing, exultant hooks. Appreciation Night
is a record of a band's optimismism: fascination with life, a diet of
interesting objects, the narrative thread.