Knock Knock (album)

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Knock Knock
Knock Knock cover
Studio album by Smog
Released January 12, 1999 (LP/CD on Drag City)
February 1, 1999 (LP/CD on Domino)
Recorded 1998
Length 42:47
Label Drag City / Domino
Producer Jim O'Rourke
Professional reviews
Smog chronology
Red Apple Falls
(1997)		 Knock Knock
(1999)		 The Manta Rays of Time
(2000)

Knock Knock is Smog's seventh album, released in 1999. Following Red Apple Falls, his first collaboration with Jim O'Rourke as a producer, Knock Knock elaborates Callahan's sound and provides twists and edges to the folky style of its predecessor. "Held" was the first single, followed by "Cold Blooded Old Times", which was also featured on the High Fidelity-soundtrack, thereby gaining some attention to Callahan's work. Other soundtrack-appearances include "Teenage Spaceship" in Crazy (2000, directed by Hans-Christian Schmid) and "River Guard" in Swimming (2000, directed by Robert J. Siegel). The album was accompanied by the release of the single "Look Now", featuring the two Japanese bonus tracks.

Loren Mazzacane Connors plays guitar on "Sweet Treat", Tim Mulvenna played drums. Jim O'Rourke played piano, "Wurley" played guitar.

Bill Callahan has referred to the cover as being a reference to "two zen tenets - that of life being like a flash of lightning or a wildcat's roar"[1], though others have speculated that it is a reference to Cat Power, who was in a relationship with Callahan.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Let's Move to the Country"
  2. "Held"
  3. "River Guard"
  4. "No Dancing"
  5. "Teenage Spaceship"
  6. "Cold Blooded Old Times"
  7. "Sweet Treat"
  8. "Hit the Ground Running"
  9. "I Could Drive Forever"
  10. "Left Only with Love"

[edit] Japanese bonus tracks

  1. "Look Now"
  2. "The Only Mother"

[edit] References

  1. ^ Smog Interview -Ink Blot Magazine