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- Date Released: April 18, 2006
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: Absolutely Kosher / IODA
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If David Lynch had written a Motown ballad during the filming of Dune, it probably would have sounded a lot like "One in Six Children Will Flee in Boats," the leadoff track on British Columbia's Frog Eyes' sophomore effort, the unsettling, beautiful and difficult Golden River. Songwriter/mouthpiece Carey Mercer twists the forced imagery of Tom Waits into nightmarish, apocalyptic poetry that references beheaded Queens, lonely hunters, and bleeding babies with a subdued yet manic energy that threatens to explode at any moment. Golden River suggests what would have happened had Eddie Vedder quit Pearl Jam directly after Ten, joined the circus at Coney Island and spent the next ten years perfecting -- with one near-fatal accident -- the art of sword swallowing. Whether he's wistful and hushed -- yet still prone to bursts of falsetto -- ("Latex Ice Age") or assuming the role of a croaking carny ("World's Greatest Concertos"), there's little doubt that Mercer is vehemently content with spending the album's entirety in one form of pain or another. This is garage rock for a Sergio Leone film, and while Melanie Campbell's whip-crack drumming may draw comparisons to Meg White, it's the "Astronomy Domine"-era Pink Floyd tapestry woven by keyboardist Grayson Walker and the springy leads of guitar player Michael Rak that put Golden River on the lost, ripped and burned portion of the rock & roll map. [Golden River was reissued in 2006 by Absolutely Kosher with 12 bonus tracks.]
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| 01. |  |
One In Six Children Will Flee In Boats |
4:14 |
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| 02. | |
Time Reveals Its Plan At Poisoned Falls |
1:30 |
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| 03. | |
Masticated Outboard Motors |
3:20 |
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| 04. | |
Miasma Gardens |
4:27 |
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| 05. | |
A Latex Ice Age |
3:37 |
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| 06. | |
Orbis Magnus |
2:08 |
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| 07. | |
Time Destroys Its Plan At The Reactionary Table |
3:04 |
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| 08. | |
Soldiers Crash Upon Gathering In Sparrow Hills |
3:02 |
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| 09. | |
World's Greatest Concertos |
2:00 |
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| 10. | |
Picture Framing The Gigantic Men Who Fought On Steam Boats |
3:43 |
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| 11. |
The Secret Map Flees From Plurality |
0:37 |
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| 12. |
Intermission (blank track) |
0:31 |
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| 13. | |
The Fruit That Ate Itself (Bonus Track (Emboldened Navigator And The Seagull Dots)) |
2:48 |
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| 14. | |
Meadows And Madames And So Forth (Bonus Track (Emboldened Navigator And The Seagull Dots)) |
2:27 |
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| 15. | |
A Latex Ice Age (Bonus Track (Emboldened Navigator And The Seagull Dots)) |
1:45 |
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| 16. | |
Picture Framing And Some Other Dark Shit (Bonus Track (Emboldened Navigator And The Seagull Dots)) |
3:18 |
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| 17. | |
American Waltz For The Good Americans (Bonus Track (Emboldened Navigator And The Seagull Dots)) |
2:24 |
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| 18. | |
One In Six Children Will Flee In Boats (Bonus Track (Emboldened Navigator And The Seagull Dots)) |
4:49 |
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| 19. | |
? (Bonus Track (Emboldened Navigator And The Seagull Dots)) |
3:11 |
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| 20. | |
Spencer's Song For Carey To Officially Sing (Bonus Track (Emboldened Navigator And The Seagull Dots)) |
4:51 |
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| 21. | |
I Hope My Horse Don't Make No Sound (Bonus Track (Emboldened Navigator And The Seagull Dots)) |
2:20 |
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| 22. | |
A Song Once Mine Now No Longer Mine (Bonus Track (Emboldened Navigator And The Seagull Dots)) |
4:06 |
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| 23. | |
"Shots" (Bonus Track (Emboldened Navigator And The Seagull Dots)) |
3:03 |
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| 24. | |
Libertatia National Lullaby (Bonus Track (Emboldened Navigator And The Seagull Dots)) |
4:25 |
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24 Total Tracks, 71:40 Total Length
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Credits
- Carolyn Mark - Vocals // Carolyn Mark - Vocals // Melanie Campbell - Group Member // Michael Rak - Group Member // Carey Mercer - Paintings // Carey Mercer - Group Member // Grayson Miniely - Group Member // Calvin Dick - Engineer // Spencer Krug - ?
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