Morning Better Last

by Dirty Projectors

Morning Better Last cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 2003
  • Label: States Rights
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 53:40
  • Community rating: 3.09/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Hank Miller, Lucy Greene, Liz Tung

Album Notes & Community Reviews

David Longstreth's deeply bizarre sophomore effort features fragmented, wildly unpredictable acoustic guitar lines and highly eccentric vocal gymnastics. The lo-fi recordings completely deconstruct traditional folk structures, presenting a chaotic and challenging vision of avant-garde songwriting. The challenging nature of the material polarized early listeners but laid the eccentric foundation for the band's future indie-rock acclaim.

Genres

Descriptors: forest, avant-garde, nature, experimental, lo-fi, unpredictable, vocal

Tracklist

  1. The Softer Shell (4:33)
  2. My Brother Had A Birthday (1:49)
  3. The Enterprising Catalyst (2:16)
  4. Grandfather's Jacket (2:06)
  5. After Santa Monica Boulevard (1:54)
  6. Dahlonegabhama (1:45)
  7. Further On Down The Strip (1:21)
  8. Katydids Calling (2:11)
  9. Twenty-Foot Stalks (1:35)
  10. We Could Cling (2:25)
  11. The Love-Prayer Book (0:37)
  12. To Give It Weight (2:34)
  13. Here Comes The Summer King (2:23)
  14. Her Freezings And Thawings (3:38)
  15. Hildegard Vs. Beach Boys (1:34)
  16. We Two Feared The Storm (2:34)
  17. How Does My Mind Work? (3:50)
  18. I Am Going To See It (2:32)
  19. Fake Folks (2:51)
  20. The Disordered Sprawl (1:45)
  21. Like Once-Heated Milk (5:05)
  22. O! You Hungering Infants (1:22)
  23. Morning Better Last! (1:00)

Credits

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