This Vital Chapter

This Vital Chapter
Studio album by The Panda Band
Released 6 June 2006 (AUS)
18 September 2006 (US)
Recorded February 2006 - March 2006
Genre Indie pop
Length 37:50
Label BamBoo/MGM Distribution (AUS)
Filter US Recordings/Fontana Distribution (US)
Producer David Parkin
The Panda Band chronology
"Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town"
(2005)		 This Vital Chapter
(2006)

This Vital Chapter is the first album from The Panda Band, released in Australia on 8 May 2006 and in the United States on 12 September 2006 - subtitled 'We're Almost Not Even Here'. The album features new recordings of radio favourites "Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town" (which reached #73 on Triple J's Hottest 100), "Eyelashes" and the most recent "Ghosts Have The Best Time". The US release, under the Filter US Recordings label, provided a different track listing to the Australian release.

The album was nominated for the Most Popular Album award at the 2007 West Australian Music Industry Awards.[1]

Following the appearance of the band at SXSW in 2007 [2] and subsequent tour of the United States the album received airplay in various cities across the United States[3].

Contents

Track listing (AUS)

  1. "Paragraph 1: Hibernation" – (Crosbie) 0:40
  2. "High in Your Saddle" – (Crosbie) 3:19
  3. "Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town" – (Crosbie) 3:07
  4. "Lovely Shoulders" – (Crosbie) 2:31
  5. "Musical Chairs" – (Crosbie) 4:51
  6. "Spanish Bride" – (Crosbie) 3:35
  7. "A Call to Your Arms" – (Crosbie) 1:42
  8. "Ghosts Have the Best Time" – (Crosbie) 2:55
  9. "We've Got the Face of the Earth" – (Crosbie) 1:53
  10. "The Jaguar" – (Crosbie) 3:15
  11. "Eyelashes" – (Crosbie, Namour) 3:42
  12. "Signing Off (We're Almost Not Even Here: Part 1)" – (Crosbie, Namour) 6:12

Track listing (US)

  1. "Paragraph I: Hibernation" - (Crosbie) 0:38
  2. "High in Your Saddle" - (Crosbie) 3:20
  3. "Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town" - (Crosbie) 3:08
  4. "Eyelashes" - (Crosbie, Namour) 3:42
  5. "Spanish Bride" - (Crosbie) 3:33
  6. "Musical Chairs" - (Crosbie) 4:56
  7. "Lovely Shoulders" - (Crosbie) 2:32
  8. "A Call to Your Arms" - (Crosbie) 1:42
  9. "Ghosts Have the Best Time" - (Crosbie) 2:54
  10. "We've Got the Face of the Earth" - (Crosbie) 1:53
  11. "The Jaguar" - (Crosbie) 3:19
  12. "Signing Off (We're Almost Not Even Here) Part I..." - (Crosbie, Namour) 6:08

Personnel

The Panda Band

Additional musicians

Reviews

References

  1. ^ "WAMi Festival 2007 – Awards". WAMi. Archived from the original on 2007-05-05. http://web.archive.org/web/20070505202941/http://www.wam.asn.au/wamifest07.htm#winnerz. Retrieved 2007-05-25. 
  2. ^ SXSW appearance Wednesday 14 March 2007
  3. ^ WUOG 90.5fm - Athens, Georgia & WRUR 88.5fm - Boulder, Colorado

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