Separation Sunday

by The Hold Steady

Separation Sunday cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 3 May 2005
  • Label: Frenchkiss
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 42:08
  • Community rating: 3.41/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Franz Nicolay, Galen Polivka, Peter Hess, Nicole Wills, Dave Gardner, Craig Finn, Tim Byrnes, Tad Kubler, Bobby Drake, Dean Baltulonis, Judd Counsell, Alan Ferber

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Centered around a recurring cast of desperate, drug-addled characters navigating Minneapolis, Craig Finn delivers a hyper-literate, conceptually unified narrative concerning Catholic guilt and redemption. The sprawling lyricism is underpinned by Tad Kubler's massive, classic rock-inspired guitar riffs, elevating bar band aesthetics into ambitious theatrical storytelling.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, drugs, hedonism, talk-singing

Tracklist

  1. Hornets! Hornets! (4:46)
  2. Cattle And The Creeping Things (3:45)
  3. Your Little Hoodrat Friend (3:52)
  4. Banging Camp (4:13)
  5. Charlemagne In Sweatpants (3:58)
  6. Stevie Nix (5:25)
  7. Multitude of Casualties (3:04)
  8. Don't Let Me Explode (2:21)
  9. Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night (3:18)
  10. Crucifixion Cruise (1:48)
  11. How a Resurrection Really Feels (5:31)

Credits

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