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. It was mastered by Fedge. The album's photography was done by Jaime Hogge. It was released on CD as well as root-beer brown Vinyl. The album contains recordings of songs created by singer-songwriter Jim Guthrie and

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, backed up by

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and Aaron Harris from the band Islands. The album was recorded at Guthrie's apartment in one week.,

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, April 9, 2008. Patrice Agbokou played bass on the song "My Beach".

Track listing

#"The Sound" – 2:44 (music: Guthrie/Thorburn, lyrics Guthrie, Thorburn) #"All Day" – 3:32 (music: Guthrie, lyrics Guthrie/Thorburn) #"Get Lost" – 3:52 (music: Thorburn, lyrics: Thorburn) #"What World" – 3:33 (music: Guthrie, lyrics Guthrie/Thorburn) #"Sleep Talking" – 3:34 (music: Thorburn, lyrics: Thorburn) #"Moody Motorcycle" – 3:11 (music: Guthrie, lyrics Guthrie/Thorburn) #"My Beach" – 2:55 (music: Thorburn, lyrics: Thorburn) #"Ode to Abner" – 1:59 (music: Thorburn, lyrics: Thorburn) #"Pretty Hair" – 3:46 (music: Thorburn, lyrics: Thorburn) #"Vision Failing" – 3:16 (music: Thorburn, lyrics: Thorburn) #"Duties of a Lighthouse Keeper (music: Guthrie, lyrics Guthrie/Thorburn)" – 3:51 #"I Wish I Knew" (music/lyrics: Dallas, Taylor) – 3:04

Reception

''Slant'' magazine describes the album as "breezy harmonies" with "acoustic balladeering". while ''Pop Matters'' praised the album's pop-influenced catchy melodies. The album was also reviewed by Tiny Mixtapes, ''Toronto Star''"Pick of the Week Human Highway"
''Toronto Star'' - Toronto, Ont. Rayner, Ben, Aug 19, 2008 Page L.10 and the North Adams Transcript"The Music Box"
''North Adams Transcript'' via Newspaper Archives. September 26, 2008 - Page 12 The reviews were generally fairly positive.

References

External links

SuicideSqueeze.net
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