Acrobatic Tenement

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Acrobatic Tenement
Acrobatic Tenement cover
Studio album by At the Drive-In
Released August 18, 1996
Recorded July, 1996
Genre Post-Hardcore
Length 32:20
Label Flipside
Producer Blaze James, Doug Green
Professional reviews
At the Drive-In chronology
Alfaro Vive, Carajo!
(1995)
Acrobatic Tenement
(1996)
El Gran Orgo
(1997)

Acrobatic Tenement is the debut album from At the Drive-In, released in 1996. None of the album's tracks made it to the 2005 compilation album This Station Is Non-Operational, with the exception of "Initiation" appearing as a live BBC recording. The album, along with In/Casino/Out and Relationship of Command, was reissued by Fearless Records in 2004.

"Ebroglio" was written about Julio Venegas, a close friend of the band, who committed suicide in 1996. Cedric Bixler Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, as The Mars Volta, would later record and dedicate the album De-loused in the Comatorium entirely to Venegas.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Star Slight" – 1:18
  2. "Schaffino" – 2:49
  3. "Ebroglio" – 2:47
  4. "Initiation" – 3:26
  5. "Communication Drive-In" – 1:44
  6. "Skips on the Record" – 3:07
  7. "Paid Vacation Time" – 3:33
  8. "Ticklish" – 4:35
  9. "Blue Tag" – 3:17
  10. "Coating of Arms" – 2:46
  11. "Porfirio Diaz" – 2:58

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