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by The Black Heart Procession

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 18 May 1999
  • Label: Touch and Go
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 51:18
  • Community rating: 3.93/5 from 9 ratings

Artists on this release: Jason Crane, Mario Rubalcaba

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The sophomore album from The Black Heart Procession is a deeply melancholic, funereal exploration of indie rock and dark cabaret. The band utilizes somber pianos, weeping musical saws, and slowcore pacing to craft a uniquely nocturnal, wintery atmosphere of longing.

Genres

Descriptors: funereal, bleak, hushed, male vocalist, minimal, male-vocals, atmospheric, theatrical, piano

Tracklist

  1. The Waiter no. 2 (4:00)
  2. Blue Tears (4:54)
  3. A Light So Dim (7:53)
  4. Your Church Is Red (4:13)
  5. When We Reach the Hill (3:43)
  6. Outside the Glass (2:41)
  7. Gently Off the Edge (5:52)
  8. It鈥檚 a Crime I Never Told You About the Diamonds in Your Eyes (3:29)
  9. My Heart Might Stop (3:52)
  10. Beneath the Ground (3:14)
  11. The Waiter no. 3 (7:20)

Credits

  • The Black Heart Procession - primary artist, producer, songwriter
  • Mario Rubalcaba - drums
  • Pall Jenkins - drums, electric piano [wurlitzer], guitar, illustration [drawings], layout, organ, performer [sheetmetal], saw, synthesizer [moog], synthesizer [sh-1000], toy piano, vocals, waterphone, words by, noises
  • Tobias Nathaniel - electric piano [wurlitzer], guitar, organ, performer [sheetmetal], synthesizer [moog], toy piano, clavinet, organ [pump], bass
  • Zack Reinig - engineer [second]
  • David Babbitt - layout
  • John Golden - mastered by
  • Ryan Hadlock - producer, recorded by, mixed by
  • Rafter Roberts - recorded by, mixed by
  • Jason Crane - trumpet

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