''Trees Outside the Academy'' is the second solo studio album by American musician

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. It was released on September 18, 2007, and was Moore's follow up of 1995's '' Psychic Hearts''. It was released on Moore's own label,

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and recorded with Sonic Youth's drummer

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and violinist

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. The recording took place at

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guitarist J. Mascis' home studio. Mascis also contributed lead guitar for some tracks. It features the track "Thurston @ 13" which is, "Some weird cassette tape that Thurston found at his mom's of him at 13 years old in the early '70s performing some kind of odd sound-theatre." The album debuted at #6 on the

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chart, barely missing the Billboard 200.

Track listing

All tracks by

. # "Frozen Gtr." – 4:07 # "The Shape Is in a Trance" – 4:41 # "Honest James" – 3:52 # "Silver>Blue" – 5:52 # "Fri/End" – 3:33 # "American Coffin" – 3:58 # "Wonderful Witches + Language Meanies" – 2:26 # "Off Work" – 4:14 # "Never Light" – 4:03 # "Free Noise Among Friends" – 0:36 # "Trees Outside the Academy" – 6:07 # "Thurston@13" – 2:38

Personnel

– acoustic & electric guitars, bass, vocals, piano on track 6 *

– drums on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9 & 11 *

– violin on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9 & 11 *

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– lead guitar on tracks 1, 2, 7 & 11 * Gown – electric guitar on track 1 & 9 * John Moloney – drums on track 7 * Christina Carter – vocals on tracks 1 & 3 *Leslie Keffer – noise on track 8

Chart positions

References

External links

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