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Mike Powell
Mike Powell
=== The Sunday Times ===
October 21, 2007
Stewart Lee<blockquote>In the late 1960s, Mayo Thompson's Red Krayola contracted Texan psychedelia into childlike drones, before mutating to survive a further 40 years. In the 1970s, they soundtracked sociopolitical sloganeering with the conceptualists Art & Language. Today, the partnership renewed, Krayola back two hesitant and foul-mouthed chanteuses singing uncharacteristically pretty yet typically unfocused tunes. [[Il Ne Reste Qu'a Chanter|Il ne reste qu'a chanter]] finds the Velvet Underground sleepwalking through a Weimar cabaret; [[Jerry Fodor's Story]] pitches supper-club jazz phrasing into an improvisatory void; [[Perfection]] is a deteriorated Vegas ballad. The art terrorists return, inebriated, tangled in feather boas.</blockquote>


=== Map ===
=== Map ===

Revision as of 01:13, 1 October 2023

Sighs Trapped by Liars
Studio album by The Red Krayola with Art & Language
Released September 25, 2007
Recorded
Studio


Label Drag City
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Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Fairest of All"2:52
2."Jumping Through the Mirror"4:42
3."Laughing at the Foot of the Cross"4:15
4."Il Ne Reste Qu'a Chanter"4:34
5."Hostage"3:00
6."Jerry Fodor's Story"2:50
7."The Big Vacation"3:47
8."Four Stars: The Ideal Crew"8:13
9."Igor Zabel's Song"3:53
10."A Pest"3:24
11."Perfection"2:16
12."Forty Thousand Words on a Chair"3:20
13."Sighs Trapped by Liars"4:41

Background

  • "Sighs Trapped by Liars" is a series by Art & Language that began in the 1990s
  • "Sighs Trapped by Liars, which Michael Baldwin explained to me was based on a pornographic S&M passage which in original reading was “Thighs wrapped by wires...”[1]
  • Many of the songs adapt texts or ideas that frequently appear in Art & Language works
  • Previewed in a Whole Foods[2]
  • Art & Language wrote a script for The Jackson Pollock Bar about the album: Art & Language Sings a Song

Related works

Personnel

Vocals

Instruments

Technical

  • Jim O'Rourke - mixing, engineer
  • Elisa Randazzo - engineer
  • John McEntire - engineer
  • Scott Benzel - engineer
  • Roger Seibel - mastering

Cover art

  • Art & Language - cover, design, photography
  • Dan Osborn - layout
  • Arthur Ou - photography

Reviews

Pitchfork

September 18, 2007[3]

Mike Powell

The Sunday Times

October 21, 2007

Stewart Lee

In the late 1960s, Mayo Thompson's Red Krayola contracted Texan psychedelia into childlike drones, before mutating to survive a further 40 years. In the 1970s, they soundtracked sociopolitical sloganeering with the conceptualists Art & Language. Today, the partnership renewed, Krayola back two hesitant and foul-mouthed chanteuses singing uncharacteristically pretty yet typically unfocused tunes. Il ne reste qu'a chanter finds the Velvet Underground sleepwalking through a Weimar cabaret; Jerry Fodor's Story pitches supper-club jazz phrasing into an improvisatory void; Perfection is a deteriorated Vegas ballad. The art terrorists return, inebriated, tangled in feather boas.

Map

Winter 2007[4][5]

N.C.

AllMusic

[6]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.meer.com/en/63643-sighs-trapped-by-liars
  2. ↑ https://chicagoreader.com/blogs/weekend-happenings/
  3. ↑ https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10638-sighs-trapped-by-liars/
  4. ↑ https://mapmagazine.co.uk/music-sighs-trapped-by-liars
  5. ↑ https://archive.org/details/mapyouareherejou0000unse/page/63/mode/1up?q=%22Sighs+Trapped+By+Liars%22
  6. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/sighs-trapped-by-liars-mw0000748942?1666935476917
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