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- Date Released: January 1, 2006
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Rock
- Label: Serious Business Records / IODA
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It's not uncommon for kids who cut their teeth on punk rock to embrace the relative sophistication of indie rock with the passage of time, but the Unsacred Hearts have turned this formula on its head -- Dave Siegel and Travis Harrison left indie rockers Cold Memory to try their hand at something more fractured and aggressive with the Unsacred Hearts. Still, this isn't your run-of-the-mill punk band, and the Unsacred Hearts' first full album, In Defense of Fort Useless, is smart and eclectic stuff beneath its frantic, sloppy surfaces. There's a country undertow struggling to rise to the surface on the homage to lost love and boozing, "Whiskey in the Fridge"; banjos and a trombone prop up the rickety melody of "Will You Be Coming Back to Me"; the drums and distorted vocals on "Teenage Palace Daydream" suggest someone in this band has been listening to Captain Beefheart; an acoustic guitar and a boogie-friendly rhythm lifts up the tale of a luckless waitress in "Slinging Drinks at the Pink," and you suspect that Joe Willie actually loves the gal he's singing about in the sweet and stripped-down "1000 Hot Babies." "Blues for Dave" and "The Bellevue Stomp" are unreconstructed hardcore rants less than a minute in length, in case anyone was questioning the Unsacred Hearts' punk credibility, but overall this is a band struggling to say something and find some new angles within the framework of fast, loud, and snotty, and In Defense of Fort Useless manages the neat feat of being pretty smart while acting kinda dumb; who knows where they could take this strategy next?
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Point of Pride |
1:27 |
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| 02. | |
Somewhere Deep in NYC |
3:31 |
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| 03. | |
Pink Angels on Plastic Horses |
1:52 |
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| 04. | |
Will You Be Coming Back to Me? |
1:20 |
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| 05. | |
Whiskey in the Fridge |
1:53 |
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| 06. | |
The Two Three Four |
1:39 |
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| 07. |
The Bellevue Stomp |
0:21 |
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| 08. | |
Teenage Palace Daydream |
2:04 |
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| 09. | |
Airline Bottles |
2:16 |
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| 10. | |
Roots & Herbs |
5:13 |
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| 11. | |
Visions of the Concorde |
1:01 |
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| 12. |
Blues for Dave |
0:41 |
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Slinging Drinks at the Pink |
3:04 |
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1000 Hot Babies |
2:19 |
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| 15. | |
Bless This Bus |
3:57 |
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15 Total Tracks, 32:38 Total Length
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Credits
- Alan Douches - Mastering // Travis Harrison - Guitar (Acoustic) // Travis Harrison - Bass // Travis Harrison - Percussion // Travis Harrison - Piano // Travis Harrison - Drums // Travis Harrison - Producer // Travis Harrison - Engineer // Travis Harrison - Mixing // Travis Harrison - Group Member // Dave Siegel - Synthesizer // Dave Siegel - Guitar (Acoustic) // Dave Siegel - Banjo // Dave Siegel - Bass // Dave Siegel - Guitar // Dave Siegel - Piano // Dave Siegel - Guitar (Electric) // Dave Siegel - Group Member // Jason Paul - Design // Jason Paul - Layout Design // Joe Willie - Harmonica // Joe Willie - Vocals // Joe Willie - Vox Organ // Joe Willie - Group Member // Brian Kantor - Drums // Brian Kantor - Maracas // Fuller Condon - Vocals (Background) // Fuller Condon - Bass Fiddle
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