Wake Up Captain
Download links and information about Wake Up Captain by Kevin Tihista. This album was released in 2004 and it belongs to Rock, Indie Rock, Pop, Alternative genres. It contains 17 tracks with total duration of 58:32 minutes.
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Artist: | Kevin Tihista |
Release date: | 2004 |
Genre: | Rock, Indie Rock, Pop, Alternative |
Tracks: | 17 |
Duration: | 58:32 |
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Tracks
[Edit]No. | Title | Length |
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1. | Outro (featuring Kevin Tihista's Red Terror) | 0:39 |
2. | Real Life (featuring Kevin Tihista's Red Terror) | 5:34 |
3. | Oh (featuring Kevin Tihista's Red Terror) | 3:33 |
4. | Damn the Weather (featuring Kevin Tihista's Red Terror) | 3:07 |
5. | Ride (featuring Kevin Tihista's Red Terror) | 4:42 |
6. | O.K. (featuring Kevin Tihista's Red Terror) | 3:25 |
7. | Sweet (featuring Kevin Tihista's Red Terror) | 4:39 |
8. | Godsend (featuring Kevin Tihista's Red Terror) | 2:33 |
9. | Family Curse (featuring Kevin Tihista's Red Terror) | 4:27 |
10. | Good Wings (featuring Kevin Tihista's Red Terror) | 3:13 |
11. | Slow Chase Scene (featuring Kevin Tihista's Red Terror) | 1:02 |
12. | Freakshow (featuring Kevin Tihista's Red Terror) | 3:41 |
13. | It's Over (featuring Kevin Tihista's Red Terror) | 4:14 |
14. | Yummy (featuring Kevin Tihista's Red Terror) | 4:06 |
15. | Still (featuring Kevin Tihista's Red Terror) | 3:28 |
16. | Microphone In My Brain (featuring Kevin Tihista's Red Terror) | 0:25 |
17. | This Is an Offering (featuring Kevin Tihista's Red Terror) | 5:44 |
Details
[Edit]Like Elliott Smith filtered through the moodier, cinematic portions of Radiohead's OK Computer, Chicago's Kevin Tihista's Red Terror offer up a lo-fi slice of indie pop with some surprisingly big ideas. Opening with an instrumental that sounds like a circus version of Angelo Badalamenti's Inside the Actor's Studio theme, it segues into a spinning filmstrip projector, cementing the songwriter's obvious love for theatrical melodrama. While most of the tunes are acoustic-based, the eclectic instrumentation feels rooted in the same murky, Beatlesque alleyway as works by the Auteurs or New Pornographer Dan Bejar's Destroyer. Lyrically, Tihista's boyish tenor seems fixated on a fairly stereotypical brand of heartache, and the numerous references to being "lost at sea" confirm the author's internal despair. He doesn't have much new to say about the subject, but there's no denying its effect on him. Standout cuts like the spooky "Ride" and the brooding "Real Life" — the latter does suffer from a truly horrible lead guitar sound — find Tihista in control of his sinking ship, and for the most part it's a pretty entertaining ride, but at 17 tracks, Wake Up Captain is a poor example of brevity, and listeners with short attention spans will snap about halfway through. However, those who value craft over instant gratification will revel in this talented artist's tormented — yet candy-coated — psyche.