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Out this week, I believe, on Vanguard Records. Could end up a real sleeper album this year. Beautiful album with great songs and great playing. Very moving, also, to hear these guys back together after fourteen years and thriving like this, making music that really hits at the core of their style. Anyone else heard it yet?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 9 October 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, this sounds like it's gonna be good. I'm going to be in the store first thing on Tuesday!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 9 October 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't yet love it the same way I love, say, "II & III," but kinda like it so far. And mega-ultra-bonus points for covering Steve Reich's "Come Out." (Yes, covering it. Wouldn't have thought that was doable.)

― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 10 October 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't follow Cracker, so I don't know the extent to which Lowery has hit these heights with his songwriting before. For me, though, this album exceeds the two late period major label CVB albums in terms of the quality of songwriting, while coming much more from their early style (the Eastern European/West Asian sounding stuff, the hoedown stuff, the Monks of Doom prog element, etc.)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 10 October 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

i saw them in an in-store last friday... was cool. i want the new record... between the reichness and the general lyrical concepts in the record, i'd like to check it.
m.

― msp (msp), Friday, 21 January 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's a good tidbit, a pretty spot-on assessment, I think:

"It didn't pick up where it left off," Lowery points out. "It picked up as if there was 15 years of us making records in between. Because that's what we were doing, we just weren't doing it together. So it's as if we had this imaginary band history in between Key Lime Pie and New Roman Times, and all of the stuff we'd been doing in the interim is reflected on this record."

If anyone hasn't heard it, the original "Come Out" is online here.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 22 January 2005 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

hey who is in the lineup now?

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 22 January 2005 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

The live lineup is: Victor Krummenacher, Greg Lisher, David Lowery, Jonathan Segel, and I didn't recognize the drummer (he didn't look like Chris Pedersen). But Pedersen (and also Chris Molla!) are on the new album.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 22 January 2005 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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