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- Date Released: October 10, 1994
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: Dischord Records
One of the band’s most cohesive and consistently powerful albums.
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We Say...
This and 1996's Sound in Time, are the band's most cohesive and consistently powerful albums. They marked the end of what I once heard a D.C. musician affectionately call Lungfish's "pre-bunker period." The music had locked into what became a minutely shifting formula: guitarist Asa Osbourne's hypnotic guitar riffs (riff?) would loop over and over as drummer Mitchell Feldstein found new and impossibly subtle variations in loping triplets. As the music got more insular, Higgs just got weirder. "Cleaner Than Your Surroundings" sports overwhelming guitar worthy of the loudest shoegazer, while Higgs yells of "Telling lies, apologizing/ For our love of country/ Dirt and tree bug river/ Blue jay chair leg/ Parking meter pinwheel sport coat/ Rudder bucket TELESCOPIC!" Future albums got slower and more deliberate, to the point where the more recent work of this now nearly 20-year old band has found a new fan base with, of all people, doom-metal fans.
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They Say...
It took several recordings, but Lungfish finally establish musical equilibrium on their third Discord release, Pass & Stow. For the first time, the vocal work of Daniel Higgs doesn't dominate the band's mix. Asa Osborne's guitars finally get the sonic boost necessary to compete, and this 1992 offering makes great strides because of it. There are plenty of repetitive dirges and abstract lyrics, but Pass & Stow retains the hardcore energy that defines Lungfish's early, less-experimental work. There is some post-rock foreshadowing of the group's Indivisible transition, but the buzz-saw guitar sounds are staunchly metallic and traditional by extension. The Eastern drones of "Astronaut & Prayer" are a nice touch up that's reflected many times in the Lungfish discography without novelty or excessiveness. Other highlights include the epic "Computer" and the restrained spookiness of "In Praise of Amoral Phenomena." With its many artistic and sonic developments, Pass & Stow signifies the creative emergence of Lungfish, one of America's most interesting '90s art/punk practitioners.
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Cleaner Than Your Surroundings |
4:15 |
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| 02. | |
Straightaway |
2:15 |
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| 03. | |
Washing Away |
5:28 |
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| 04. | |
At Liberty To Say |
2:22 |
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| 05. | |
The Trap Gets Set |
4:26 |
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| 06. | |
Computer |
3:13 |
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| 07. | |
Highway Sweetheart |
4:23 |
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| 08. | |
Astronaut's Prayer |
1:45 |
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| 09. | |
Idiot Vehicle |
5:05 |
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| 10. | |
One Way All The Time |
4:53 |
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| 11. | |
In Praise Of Amoral Phenomena |
2:14 |
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| 12. | |
Gorilla Monsoon |
2:27 |
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| 13. | |
The Evidence |
5:17 |
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| 14. | |
Terminal Crush |
8:37 |
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14 Total Tracks, 56:40 Total Length
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Credits
- Lungfish - Main Performer // Don Zientara - Engineer // Ian MacKaye - Producer // Jason Farrell - Artwork // Mitchell Feldstein - Drums // John Chriest - Bass
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