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Cellar Songs

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Download links and information about Cellar Songs by The Red Telephone. This album was released in 2001 and it belongs to Rock, Indie Rock, Pop, Alternative genres. It contains 12 tracks with total duration of 59:57 minutes.

Artist: The Red Telephone
Release date: 2001
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Pop, Alternative
Tracks: 12
Duration: 59:57
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Tracks

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No. Title Length
1. Pennsylvania 8:11
2. Somewhere Far 4:57
3. If You Weren't So Clean 3:52
4. Last Day of May 3:44
5. The Possibility Shop 4:18
6. Institution Street 3:36
7. Teenage Mother Earth 5:36
8. I Am Sunday 2:59
9. Polyanna 4:01
10. On the Railroad 5:12
11. Two O'Clock 3:56
12. Burned By the Sun 9:35

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This Boston foursome that took its name from a '60s Love song has fulfilled the promise of 2000's Aviation EP. Still mixing Radiohead and U2's guitar prowess with the U.S. power pop 'n' Americana sweep of Wilco and Big Star, Cellar Songs is an accomplished stroke where every big-sounding cut signifies without retrogressing into the over-bravado of Bono or egocentric temperament of Travis. Like a Yankee answer to Coldplay, perhaps, Matt Hutton lays on bits of bombast, but never submerges his songs' more natural might. Instead, Hutton and Sean Toohey's blitzing, intricate guitar work holds total sway (the band's Greenwood and O'Brien, or Chilton and Bell?), high up in the mix with Hutton's confident vocal ascension. Again, there are times when the self-production seems a bit heavy-handed, but that's because it's so big and brawny — the toms blasting your ears, the guitar assaulting your brain, the guitar leads fracturing your glasses. What often saves them is how well it's mixed, with Hutton's full-throated vocals in the center of the clatter instead of ahead of the pack. Most of all, songs such as the opening "Pennsylvania" and "Last Day of May" are skillful work for an unheralded act, betraying not only complex ensemble arrangements and advanced dynamics, in the roar of the drums and bass against the more echoing guitars, but also catchy songs of a high rank. Investigate!