Quicksand / Cradlesnakes

by Califone

Quicksand / Cradlesnakes cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 18 March 2003
  • Label: Thrill Jockey
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:24:53
  • Community rating: 3.79/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Operating at the intersection of dusty roots music and avant-garde studio experimentation, the Chicago collective deconstructs traditional Americana. The acoustic instrumentation is continually fractured and reassembled using idiosyncratic tape loops, clattering percussion, and subtle electronic noise.

Genres

Descriptors: desert, avant-garde

Tracklist

  1. One (0:53)
  2. Horoscopic.Amputation.Honey (7:14)
  3. Michigan Girls (4:00)
  4. Cat Eats Coyote (1:33)
  5. Your Golden Ass (5:04)
  6. (Red) (5:50)
  7. Million Dollar Funeral (2:18)
  8. When Leon Spinx Moved Into Town (5:31)
  9. Mean Little Seed (3:59)
  10. Vampiring Again (5:04)
  11. Slower Twin (4:42)
  12. Stepdaughter (3:15)
  13. When Leon Spinx Moved Into Town - 6.18.03 - VPRO Radio, Amsterdam (6:49)
  14. Slowness - Califone + oRSo (2:48)
  15. Ro - Califone + oRSo (4:51)
  16. Wednesdays - Califone + oRSo (2:54)
  17. Kissing Cousin Wikkan - 9.02 Cicero (4:34)
  18. Sciabolato (4:34)
  19. The Machines in Your Stomach Have Everything to Do With Your Dreams (3:33)
  20. Cat Eats Coyote - Unedited (5:17)

Credits

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