debut full length. really pretty music. enhanced cd. califone's finest work yet, a tasty crop of timeless, time-lapse hymnals and thick industrial folk as only they do. reflections of the breath of pirates, poison apples at a tango contest, and the waiting room between death and canonization - where missionaries have quit & 19th-century whores have been rescued for all the wrong reasons. enhanced cd features videos of califone playing live in a bathroom. many guests, many moments. embiggened by brian deck. ensconced by steve walters. enhanced by jeff economy. (2001)

credits
tim rutili (loftus) - guitars, vocals, piano, organ, synth, bass, ben massarella (loftus, oRSo, drumhead) - drums, percussion, electronics, bass, brian deck (loftus, oRSo) - drums, percussion, synth, computer / looping, bass, vocals. w/ eric johnson (fruit bats, paulina hollers) - banjo and percussion on 1, guitar on 2, matt fields (those bastard souls) - bass on 9, gillian lisee (fruit bats, oRSo) - vocals on 5 and 7, rick rizzo (eleventh dream day) - treated guitar on 5, doug mccombs (tortoise, brokeback, eleventh dream day) - bass on 3, john rice (waco brothers) - violins on 3, randall thomas henry - upright bass on 5

recorded and mixed at clava studio by brian deck.

track listing
(click on linked titles for sample mp3 clip! - 128KB/Stereo):
trout silk - bottles & bones (shade & sympathy) - fisherman's wife -porno starlet vs. rodeo clown - tayzee nub - slow right hand - st. augustine (a belly full of swans) - wade in the water - rattlesnakes smell like split cucumber - new black tooth

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