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- Date Released: September 1, 1993
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative
- Label: 4AD
Rock music's first shoegaze-songwriter?
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We Say...
A somber singer-songwriter who makes brooding a sport of kings, Red House Painters leader Mark Kozelek boasts a voice that sounds both buoyed and overcome by its own moody power. It would grow fuller on later, more naturalistic records, but this — one of two 1993 self-titled albums (this one has a rollercoaster on the cover) — pairs Kozelek's delicate moan to Red House Painters' best collection of slow, sad instrumental backings. "Grace Cathedral Park" starts off with a gorgeous spell of guitars wandering through rich, dramatic chords that sound like fog rolling over San Francisco. "Katy Song" rings and chimes with devastating patience alongside Kozelek likening his heartbroken life to "glass on the pavement under my shoe." Cutting through the sadness is an affirming devotion to melody, which plays out in the gleaming, grainy "Mistress" and "Dragonflies," a song that marries Kozelek's love of sulking hard-rock ballads to the kind of 4AD atmospherics that set the table for "slowcore" pining.
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They Say...
The second of two self-titled 1993 efforts, this Red House Painters collects the remaining tracks from the remarkably fruitful sessions which also launched the earlier, superior album. Far more experimental in nature, it opens with "Evil," an almost painfully slow and withdrawn song which acutely sets the album's haunting, dark tone. While not everything works -- the electric version of "New Jersey" pales in comparison to the previous set's acoustic rendition, while the cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "I Am a Rock" is overripe -- both the unrequited love song "Bubble" and the dysfunctional "Uncle Joe" rank among Mark Kozelek's most perfectly realized compositions, and the closer, a marvelously downbeat reading of "The Star Spangled Banner," allows the group's often unsung black humor to seep to the surface.
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| 01. |  |
Grace Cathedral Park |
3:51 |
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| 02. | |
Down Through |
2:38 |
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| 03. | |
Katy Song |
8:22 |
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| 04. | |
Mistress |
4:05 |
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| 05. | |
Things Mean a Lot |
3:23 |
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| 06. | |
Funhouse |
9:18 |
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| 07. | |
Take Me Out |
4:48 |
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| 08. | |
Rollercoaster |
4:17 |
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| 09. | |
New Jersey |
3:58 |
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| 10. | |
Dragonflies |
3:58 |
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| 11. | |
Mistress [Piano Version] |
4:32 |
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| 12. | |
Mother |
13:06 |
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| 13. | |
Strawberry Hill |
7:34 |
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| 14. | |
Brown Eyes |
1:47 |
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14 Total Tracks, 75:37 Total Length
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