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

Oh Me Oh My...The Way the Day Goes by the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit cover art

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

  • Freak Folk
  • Singer-Songwriter

Tracklist

  1. Tick Eats The Olives...
  2. Roots...
  3. The Charles C. Leary
  4. Nice People...
  5. Animals...
  6. Cosmos And Demos
  7. Michigan State
  8. Lend Me Your Teeth
  9. Hey Miss Cane
  10. Soon Is Good
  11. Tell Me Something
  12. The Red Lagoon
  13. A Gentle Soul
  14. Happy Happy Oh
  15. Pumpkin Seeds
  16. The Thumbs...
  17. Legless Love...
  18. Marigold
  19. Make It Easier
  20. Ones
  21. Little Monkey
  22. The Spirit Is Near