The Golden River

by Frog Eyes

The Golden River cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 July 2003
  • Label: Animal World
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 1:11:40
  • Community rating: 3.4/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Led by Carey Mercer's famously erratic, unhinged vocal delivery, the Canadian quartet's sophomore release is a remarkably manic, tension-filled explosion of experimental indie rock. The album flawlessly balances highly dissonant, anxious noise rock elements with surprisingly passionate, deeply melancholic, and bittersweet pop melodies.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, melodic

Tracklist

  1. One In Six Children Will Flee In Boats (04:14)
  2. Time Reveals Its Plan At Poisoned Falls (01:30)
  3. Masticated Outboard Motors (03:20)
  4. Miasma Gardens (04:27)
  5. A Latex Ice Age (03:37)
  6. Orbis Magnus (02:08)
  7. Time Destroys Its Plan At The Reactionary Table (03:04)
  8. Soldiers Crash Gathering In Sparrow Hills (03:02)
  9. World's Greatest Concertos (02:00)
  10. Picture Framing The Gigantic Men Who Fought On Steam Boats (03:43)
  11. The Secret Map Flees From Plurality (00:37)
  12. Intermission (blank track) (00:31)
  13. The Fruit That Ate Itself (early session version) (02:48)
  14. Meadows And Madames And So Forth (early session version) (02:27)
  15. A Latex Ice Age (early session version) (01:45)
  16. Picture Framing And Some Other Dark Shit (early session version) (03:18)
  17. American Waltz For The Good Americans (early session version) (02:24)
  18. One In Six Children Will Flee In Boats (early session version) (04:49)
  19. ? (early session version) (03:11)
  20. Spencer's Song For Carey To Officially Sing (early session version) (04:51)
  21. I Hope My Horse Don't Make No Sound (early session version) (02:20)
  22. A Song Once Mine Now No Longer Mine (early session version) (04:06)
  23. "Shots" (early session version) (03:03)
  24. Libertatia National Lullaby (early session version) (04:25)

Credits

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