1. Sorted 3:17
2. Self Service Rest 10:44
3. I Only Got 1 Hour Of Sleep Last Night 5:57
4. Tweakin The Bible 4:25
5. Para Ella 4:14
6. Her Dream 8:09
7. Half As Well 7:13
8. The Sun Bites Its Tongue 5:50
9. Sandy Toes 7:23
10. Sempiternal Tryst Detente 11:53
This is the Pedal Steel Transmission at their naive finest. Stereolab collides with Hanks of all generations to rhythm-up a good feast. Pedal steel and distortion, alternate tunings, time-signatures discarded, feel Pedro the Lion through John McLaughlin and a suddenly singy Tortoise. The album that put this foursome on the map amidst a a sickened clan afraid of everything country and beautiful alike. A group spent from trying too hard and sick from the overblown serious, 23 and angry from the rules, yelling at the ceiling at 4AM. Oh, and a guitar hero or two.
“...this band would seem to be making music for the David Lynch film festival of everyone's imagination. While some songs are sprawling impressionistic, amorphous things full of shadows and dreams, when the band falls into more traditional song structures, as on "Amy", the results are just as scintillating.”
Pop Culture Press“...a gorgeously tense nod to Black Heart Procession and Calexico that rests so precariously between sunny, rural prettiness and wrenching dissonance that it could constantly fall either way but somehow never does.”
Pitchfork“...PST flirts with twang and indulges in its share of strum, but these elements are integrated into something cinematic and widescreen, full of weathered ambience and improvisational nuance- with nary a wide-brimmed Stetson or a dusty Dingo in evidence.”
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