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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Imperial Teen |
| Record Label: |
Merge Records |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Release Date: |
August 21, 2007 |
| Album Duration: |
37m:49s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Everything 2. Do It Better 3. Shim Sham 4. Hair the TV the Baby & the Band 5. One Two 6. Room with a View 7. It's Now 8. Fallen Idol 9. Sweet Potato 10. Everyone Wants to Know 11. 21st Century 12. What You Do |
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Imperial Teen: Jone Stebbins (bass guitar); Lynn Truell, Roddy Bottum, Will Schwartz. Personnel: Roddy Bottum, Will Schwartz (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Lynn Truell (vocals, drums, percussion); Jone Stebbings (vocals). Audio Mixer: Danny Kalb. Recording information: Kingsize Soundlabs, Los Angeles, CA. Photographer: Tim Palen. With a title that answers the implied question, "Why five years between records?" THE HAIR, THE TV, THE BABY & THE BAND marked a triumphant return to idiosyncratic pop mastery for San Francisco vets Imperial Teen. While the lyrics muse on getting older and the more complicated relationships that accompany it, the band never forgets how to balance fun and hooks with its more mature musical take. The freewheeling dance rockers "Shim Sham" and "Sweet Potato" are youthful groovers that punch up a sequence of mid-tempo TUSK-like nuggets such as "Do It Better" and the impish melodicism of the title track. With spot-on production touches by That Dog's Anna Waronker and Redd Kross's Steve... |
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