Mistle Thrush - Super Refraction (c) 1997 Egg Records
Artist....: Mistle Thrush
Album.....: Super Refraction
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 11
Genre.....: Indie
Label.....: Egg Records
Catalogue#: 97001-2
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.mistlethrush.com/
Tracklist:
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01 Stupid Song 03:13
02 Moth-Like 04:02
03 It's All Like Today 05:01
04 Yellow Day 04:28
05 51 Pegasi: Rocketship V. 2 02:41
06 Do You Know This Bird? 03:07
07 All Mirror Thing 03:41
08 Train Song 04:52
09 Escapades In Glass 04:24
10 Sha Sha 05:57
11 Making Salt With Sunshine 26:26
Total:86,6 MBB / 67:52 min
Release Notes:
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Formed in 1993 by guitarists Scott Patalano and Brad Rigney, bassist
Ruben Layman, drummer Todd Demma and Forgione (ex-Funeral Party, Twelve
Tone Failure), Mistle Thrush took their name from a bird that eats the
poisonous-to-most berries of the mistletoe plant. Generally identified
as goth, although the term, as The Phoenix's Brett Milano later put it,
"never quite suited them"- quickly found a home at Washington, D.C.'s
Bedazzled Records, who released the band's debut 7" in 1994. Later that
same year, they released a 5-song CD entitled Agus Amαrach.
By the time they put out their full-length debut (1995's Silt), Rigney
had been replaced by former teenage Boston hardcore semi-star Matthew
Kattman (ex-Funny Wagon, Kingpin).
Two years later, they released Super Refraction on the "fake" indie
label, Egg Records (bankrolled by major label Elektra).
Signing a publishing deal with Warner-Chappell Music, they ultimately
used most of the advance money buying out the remainder of their
5-album contract with Egg, with whom they'd become increasingly
disillusioned.
All of the legal wrangling involved in extracting themselves from their
contract took its toll on the band and Kattman and Layman both left the
band. Matthew Klain was recruited to take over on bass, and the band
decided they could make do with just one guitarist. In early 2002 the
band released what would be their final album, Drunk With You on new
Los Angeles indie label Ecstatic.