Sighs Trapped by Liars (album)

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.	Title	Length
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...”
• Many of the songs adapt texts or ideas that frequently appear in Art & Language works
• Previewed in a Whole Foods
• Art & Language wrote a script for The Jackson Pollock Bar about the album: Art & Language Sings a Song

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Personnel

Vocals

• Elisa Randazzo
• Sandy Yang

Instruments

• Noel Kupersmith - bass
• Jim O'Rourke - acoustic guitar, harmonica, backing vocals, synth bass
• Mayo Thompson - acoustic guitar, piano
• John McEntire - drums
• Tom Watson - electric guitar, bass

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

Mike Powell

Map

Winter 2007

N.C.