Sophomore Efforts

 

The cat's hungry. 

I'll make this brief.

 


1999 - Eggshells for Paperbacks

 

 The second and final album by American Paint in which the boys have taken and expanded their sonic horizons past their roots rock origins into something else. 

I like it. 

I mean, it's all still there in spades. There's an obvious debt owed to the Byrds in "Lu" but "Yellow Cadillac" takes them in a different direction which kind of makes it the stand out track for me.

That is to say that this album has some deeper flavor to it. More interesting arrangements. Horns and shit.

That is to say that this album is a big improvement over the first one. It feels like they started hitting a stride and figured out what they were doing and capable of. It would have been interesting to hear what a next album might have sounded like.

That is to say that this album is actually pretty good and worth a listen.

That is all.

I'm going to feed the cat now.


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