was assembled as a loose sequel to it's conservative bigger brother 'so much staying alive and lovelessness'. recorded simultaneously, they were intended to be a single album - but they grew. some songs were written in the studio before and after a friend/ enemy tour. some songs came from tim and mike kinsella fleshing out fractured guitar pieces brought in by sam zurich. the epic 22 minute title piece came from tim not trying to do side 2 of bauhaus' "the sky's gone out", but from the attempt to capture the effect that it had on him when he was 10yrs old and accidentally bought it before he was ready to hear it. fragile, childlike paranoia as it comes in this climate. Sense/no sense coming apart/together, cultural information overload making sense out of this mess or accepting that everything is movable and nothing is fixable. clean twisted guitars & sweet voices unglitching just the same as laptops and found sounds. learning to breathe in this air. everything has a shadow side. everything. jim becker (califone) - pedal steel rob roy campbell - drums amy cargill - singing matt clark (pinebender) - guitar graeme gibson (boas) - drums, synthesizer mike kinsella (owen) - drums tim kinsella (owls, friend/enemy) - guitars, singing ben massarella (califone) - enabler todd mattei - guitars, singing rob mazurek (chicago underground duo) - coronet sheba nemerovski - singing jamey robinson - piano tim rutili (califone) - guitar joe tricoli - drums, percussion sam zurick - bass, guitar, singing, percussion Recorded and mixed by Graeme Gibson at 4Deuces(Clava) track listing sing the scarecrow song - happy 1984 and 2001-excitement is exciting - barge - gang language -moonlighting - dinosaur constellations part1 - them brainwash days - dinosaur days - dinosaur constellations part2 - no corporate news is good news - that radiant morning - them heartache nights - dinosaur constellations part3 - in rape fantasy and terror sex we trust |