Oh Me Oh My...The Way the Day Goes by the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit
by Devendra Banhart
- Type: Album
- Released: 28 October 2002
- Label: Young God
- Country: United States
- Length: 49:09
- Community rating: 3.01/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Compiled by Swans frontman Michael Gira, this collection of crude 4-track cassette recordings served as the eccentric songwriter's breakthrough. The bizarre, wildly unstable acoustic performances and warvering vocals essentially kickstarted the expansive freak-folk revival of the mid-2000s.
Genres
Descriptors: acoustic, lo-fi, forest
Tracklist
- Tick Eats The Olives... (0:39)
- Roots... (1:33)
- The Charles C. Leary (2:46)
- Nice People... (3:15)
- Animals... (1:25)
- Cosmos And Demos (3:32)
- Michigan State (3:47)
- Lend Me Your Teeth (1:55)
- Hey Miss Cane (3:19)
- Soon Is Good (4:03)
- Tell Me Something (1:09)
- The Red Lagoon (1:13)
- A Gentle Soul (1:59)
- Happy Happy Oh (1:26)
- Pumpkin Seeds (4:30)
- The Thumbs... (2:04)
- Legless Love... (2:08)
- Marigold (1:54)
- Make It Easier (0:55)
- Ones (2:21)
- Little Monkey (1:48)
- The Spirit Is Near (1:28)
Credits
- Devendra Banhart - primary artist, illustration [all drawings by], songwriter [all songs by]
- Kerstin Posch - public relations [publicity]