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'' A Brilliant Mistake '' is a full-length
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by American
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band
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, released in 1997. It was the band's last album.


Production

The album was recorded in Chicago. Members of
The Sea and Cake The Sea and Cake is an American indie rock band based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. As part of the Chicago school of post-rock, the group formed in the mid-1990s from members of The Coctails (Archer Prewitt), Shrimp Boat (Sam Prekop ...
,
the Coctails The Coctails were a musical group from Chicago, who formed while its members were attending the Kansas City Art Institute. The band was active from about 1988 to 1995, with reunions in 2000 as the last band to play on stage at Lounge Ax before ...
, and
the Pulsars The Pulsars was a new wave/indie rock band from Chicago, Illinois, led by Dave Trumfio and his brother, Harry Trumfio. They signed to Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss's Almo Sounds label and recorded two albums in the mid-1990s, one of which was rele ...
contributed instrumentation to the album.


Critical reception

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'' wrote that "Tsunami still doesn't compose outgoing melodies, but the band's control of mood and texture has become formidable." ''
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'' called the album "heady and beautiful," and praised Jenny Toomey's "rich, liquid voice." ''
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'' called the album the band's best, writing that "the instrumentation on ''A Brilliant Mistake'' is a remarkable achievement—an absorption of some of the prettier sounds of the 'post-rock' movement while retaining a fundamentally aggro-punk edge." ''
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'' wrote that "Tsunami hasn't forgotten how to write challenging pop songs, and Toomey's voice remains one of indie rock's most beautiful instruments."


Track listing

# "Old Grey Mare" # "Great Mimes" # "Double Shift" # "Enter Misguided" # "The Workers Are Punished" # "Liar's Dice (Flight of the Chickens)" # "The Match" # "Poodle" # "Unbridled" # "DMFH" # "David Foster Wallace" # "Hockey" # "PBS"


References

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