Happy Hollow (album)
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| Studio album by Cursive | ||
| Released | August 22, 2006 | |
| Genre | Indie rock | |
| Length | 45:26 | |
| Label | Saddle Creek Records | |
| Producer(s) | Tim Kasher and Mike Mogis | |
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| The Difference Between Houses and Homes (2005) |
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Happy Hollow is the fifth album by the indie rock band Cursive. It was released on August 22, 2006 on Saddle Creek Records. Saddle Creek Records began shipping pre-orders on August 8, 2006. The album is named after a famous street in Omaha, Nebraska, known as Happy Hollow Blvd.
The album is the first since the departure of cellist Gretta Cohn [1] whose instrumentation was a fixture of the band's 2003 release The Ugly Organ. The album features significant five-piece horn arrangements courtesy of Nate Walcott.[2]
Also, atypically, the album features three songs in which frontman Tim Kasher does not sing lead. "Flag and Family", "The Sunks", and "Bad Science" feature guitarist Ted Stevens on lead vocals.
The lyrics of Happy Hollow form a concept album of sorts, revolving around a small town and its inhabitants, and dealing with concepts such as religious dogma and hypocrisy.
This album came with a download code to download the songs in mp3 format directly from Saddle Creek Records. Pre-orders of the album came with a miniature license plate that had a code to download a bonus track entitled "No News Is Bad News".
[edit] Track listing
- "Opening the Hymnal / Babies" – 2:32
- "Dorothy At Forty" – 3:02
- "Big Bang" – 3:56
- "Bad Sects" – 3:39
- "Flag and Family" – 2:56
- "Dorothy Dreams of Tornadoes" – 2:54
- "Retreat!" – 3:57
- "The Sunks" – 2:53
- "At Conception" – 2:57
- "So-So Gigolo" – 3:43
- "Bad Science" – 2:40
- "Into the Fold" – 4:16
- "Rise Up! Rise Up!" – 3:22
- "Hymns for the Heathen" – 2:39
- "No News Is Bad News (Pre-Order Bonus Track)" - 2:08
