''Second Story'' is an album by
The Hang Ups, released in 1999 on
Restless Records
Restless Records was started in El Segundo, California in 1986 by Enigma Records and primarily released alternative, metal and punk records. Restless also licensed and released records from Bar/None Records, Metal Blade Records and Mute R ...
. The production team of
Mitch Easter
Mitchell Blake Easter (born November 15, 1954) is a musician, songwriter, and record producer. Frequently associated with the jangle pop style of guitar music, he is known as producer of R.E.M.'s early albums from 1981 through 1984, and as frontm ...
and
Don Dixon hadn't worked together as a dedicated production team since recording
R.E.M.
R.E.M. was an American alternative rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who were students at the University of Georgia. One of the fir ...
's
''Murmur'' and
''Reckoning'' more than 15 years before.
Critical reception
AllMusic
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wrote that the band "can build a whole song out of a lugubrious piano, a folky guitar and an antiquated harpsichord, the beautiful bowing of a sonorous violin, or McCartney-esque ringing pop, and make the whole thing hang together."
The ''
Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Circulation
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'' wrote that the album "features a host of melodically engaging tunes from unheralded songwriter Brian Tighe." ''
Washington City Paper
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'' wrote that the band "juice their sound with a force they used to only imply, resulting in the most jagged, Brit-poppy music of their career."
Track listing
# Caroline – 3:10
# Second Story – 5:40
# Pretty BA – 2:59
# Parkway – 3:25
# Underneath A Tree – 4:10
# Out Of Touch – 2:51
# Long Goodbye – 4:03
# Blue Sky – 1:32
# The Queen – 2:42
# Maroon – 4:39
# Party – 2:31
# Epic – 5:16
# Untitled 0:57
References
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1999 albums