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- Date Released: April 18, 2006
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: Absolutely Kosher / IODA
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Frog Eyes' 2002 debut catches the volatile British Columbian art rock quartet in the violent spasms of birth. With typically verbose and image-laden titles like "Fox Speaks to His Wife Who Is Not Quite Sure," "Silence But for the Gentle Tinkling of the Flowing Creek," and "Mayor Laments the Failures of His Many Townfolk," The Bloody Hand listens like a Kafka novel, peppering its tormented characters with arrows against a backdrop that feels more like a fevered nightmare than a cohesive narrative. Vocalist/guitar player Carey Mercer's Lux Interior meets Birthday Party-era Nick Cave vocals match the audio scenery like a corpse at a murder scene, and the group's complex noise rock arrangements constantly reveal themselves to be obsessively orchestrated marvels of terror, but there's so much volatility happening that the overall feeling is one of complete and utter suffocation. Listeners looking to add a few tracks to their road-trip playlists will find nothing but evil within this Bloody Hand, but those who find themselves aching to be butchered alive on-stage at an early-'90s lo-fi Skinny Puppy concert will rejoice in the heart-bursting onslaught. [The 2006 reissue includes nine bonus tracks.]
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| 01. |  |
Sound Travels From The Snow To The Dark |
3:35 |
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| 02. | |
The Fox Speaks To His Wife Who Is Not Quite Sure |
2:46 |
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| 03. | |
Krull Fire Wedding |
3:28 |
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| 04. | |
The Mayor Laments The Failures Of His Many Townfolk |
2:40 |
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| 05. | |
Our Lordship Has Devised A New Billing System |
4:53 |
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| 06. | |
The Horse Used To Wear A Crown |
3:20 |
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| 07. | |
The Fruit That Fell From The Tree |
2:37 |
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| 08. | |
Silence But For The Gentle Tinkling Of The Flowing Creek |
5:20 |
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| 09. | |
Silence But For The Gentle Tinkling Of The Flowing Creek |
2:55 |
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| 10. | |
The Hardest Night To Sleep In The Swamplands |
4:11 |
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| 11. | |
Libertatia's National Lullaby |
4:26 |
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| 12. |
Intermission |
0:30 |
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| 13. | |
Seagulls On The Rise (Bonus Track)
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1:14 |
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| 14. | |
One Considers Sailing On (Bonus Track)
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7:22 |
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| 15. | |
Tyranny Of Sight And Tyranny Of Seeing (Bonus Track)
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6:56 |
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| 16. | |
Picture Framing (Bonus Track)
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3:54 |
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| 17. | |
"Buttercup" (Bonus Track)
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1:45 |
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| 18. | |
Drinking: The Song (Bonus Track)
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4:06 |
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| 19. | |
Body Body (Bonus Track)
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4:21 |
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| 20. | |
Lost In A Godless Sea (Bonus Track)
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2:32 |
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| 21. | |
Before They Was Killed In A Car Crash (Bonus Track)
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5:24 |
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21 Total Tracks, 78:15 Total Length
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Credits
- Scott Henderson - Engineer // Scott Henderson - Engineer // Scott Henderson - Mixing // Scott Henderson - Mixing // Mike Rak - Bass // Mike Rak - Group Member // Carey Mercer - Guitar // Carey Mercer - Vocals // Carey Mercer - Clavinet // Carey Mercer - Fender Rhodes // Carey Mercer - Mixing // Carey Mercer - Paintings // Carey Mercer - Group Member // Lily Fawn - Drums // Lily Fawn - Saw // Lily Fawn - Group Member // Ijd - Cover Construction
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