Low Note From A Sinking Ship

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Slow Note From A Sinking Ship
Studio album by Portastatic
Released 1995
Genre Indie Rock
Label Merge Records
Producer Mac McCaughan and Jerry Kee
Professional reviews
Portastatic chronology
I Hope Your Heart Is Not Brittle
(1994)
Slow Note From A Sinking Ship
(1995)
The Nature of Sap
(1997)


Slow Note From A Sinking Ship is Portastatic's second studio album. It was released on Merge Records in 1995.

The album was recorded at Duck Kee Studios by Jerry Kee, except Skinny Glasses Girl, The Angels of Sleep, Spooky, Running Water and Isn't That The Way, which were recorded by Mac McCaughan on a Tascam 624 4-Track cassette recorder "with little or no engineering involved."

The CD and Vinyl versions of the album had differnt tracklistings and running orders. "Spooky" and the hidden track appear onthe CD only. "Your Own Cloud" appears on the LP only. In addition the second side of the vinyl LP ends with an endless loop of synth sound from the ending of "In The Manner of Anne Frank."

Contents

[edit] CD Track listing

  1. "When You Crashed"
  2. "Skinny Glasses Girl"
  3. "San Andreas"
  4. "Taking You With Me"
  5. "The Angles of Sleep"
  6. "A Cunning Latch"
  7. "Spooky"
  8. "The Great Escape"
  9. "Running Water"
  10. "You Can't Win"
  11. "Isn't That The Way"
  12. "On Our Hands"
  13. "Pastime"
  14. "In The Manner of Anne Frank"
  15. "Hidden Track"



[edit] Vinyl LP Track listing

[edit] Side 1


  1. "Your Own Cloud"
  2. "San Andreas"
  3. "Skinny Glasses Girl"
  4. "When You Crashed"
  5. "You Can't Win"
  6. "Running Water"
  7. "A Cunning Latch"


[edit] Side 2


  1. "The Great Escape"
  2. "Isn't That The Way"
  3. "Taking You With Me"
  4. "On Our Hands"
  5. "The Angles of Sleep"
  6. "Pastime"
  7. "In The Manner of Anne Frank"