Superchunk's tenth album (okay, eighth if you don't count the singles collections), released 19 September 2001. Often, it's a great deal mellower in mood than much of their previous records, and there's some ingenious
synth action from
Mr. McCaughan...and there are a lot - a
lot - of
plane crash references and
mass destruction.
Normally, this wouldn't be anything worth mentioning; but when an album's released about a week after
all that and you're sitting down with the record playing and one of the first lines to jump at you is about
planes crashing on TV...well. It's still a fine album, and now it's a damn eerie one too.
Tracks:
- Late Century Dream (it was never better/ it was never any better/ but a nation is not soothed)
- Rainy Streets
- Phone Sex (plane crash footage on TV/ i know - i know that could be me)
- Florida's On Fire (sleeping in the smoke 'cause the dirt's on fire down here)
- Out On The Wing (here's to shutting up/ at least until the wheels are off the ground/ hum something to yourself for luck/ white knuckles and looking for the sign that says "move around".... airplanes are heavy/ ships deserve to sink)
- The Animal Has Left Its Shell
- Act Surprised
- Art Class (song for Yayoi Kusama)
- What Do You Look Forward To?
- Drool Collection