Stealing From Our Favorite Thieves

by The Van Pelt

Stealing From Our Favorite Thieves cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 13 May 1996
  • Label: Gern Blandsten
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 33:02
  • Community rating: 3.71/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: David Baum, Toko Yasuda

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A highly influential entry in the 90s underground scene, the debut album from the New York group integrates fiercely intellectual spoken-word poetry into complex rock structures. The band heavily utilizes interlocking, clean guitar arpeggios that occasionally erupt into frantic post-hardcore dissonance.

Genres

Descriptors: conscious, existential, spoken-word, literary, emotive, atmospheric, minimal

Tracklist

  1. His Steppe Is My Prarie (3:37)
  2. It's a Suffering (3:18)
  3. Shame on You (3:17)
  4. Magic Fantasy (We Are Provincial) (3:57)
  5. You Are the Glue (5:10)
  6. Simone Never Had It This Good (2:31)
  7. His Saxophone Is My Guitar (3:52)
  8. It's New to Me (2:59)
  9. Turning Twenty into Two (4:17)

Credits

  • Toko Yasuda - bass, backing vocals
  • David Baum - guitar, backing vocals
  • Michael Sarsfield - lacquer cut by
  • Ted Leo - percussion [additional], backing vocals [additional]
  • Justin Nortillo - backing vocals [additional]

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