The Tyranny of Distance (album)

The Tyranny of Distance
Studio album by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Released	June 19, 2001
Genre	Rock
Length	48:51
Label	Lookout!
Producer	Brendan Canty
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists chronology
tej leo(?), Rx / pharmacists (1999) The Tyranny of Distance (2001) Hearts of Oak (2003)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Pitchfork Media	8.5/10 link

The Tyranny of Distance is the second album by the Washington, D.C. rock band Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, released in 2001 by Lookout! Records. It was the group's first album as a full band, as their previous album tej leo(?), Rx / pharmacists had been a solo effort by singer/guitarist Ted Leo. The album's title comes from a lyric in the Split Enz song "Six Months in a Leaky Boat," which the band later covered twice: first as a Leo solo on the EP Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead in 2003, and again as a full band on 2005's Sharkbite Sessions.

Reception

Online music magazine Pitchfork Media placed The Tyranny of Distance at number 120 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.^[1]

Track listing

1. "Biomusicology" – 4:18
2. "Parallel or Together?" – 4:56
3. "Under the Hedge" – 3:20
4. "Dial Up" – 4:04
5. "Timorous Me" – 4:34
6. "Stove by a Whale" – 7:59
7. "The Great Communicator" – 3:16
8. "Squeaky Fingers" – 3:37
9. "M¥ Vien iLin" – 2:43
10. "The Gold Finch and the Red Oak Tree" – 1:54
11. "St. John the Divine" – 6:39
12. "You Could Die (Or This Might End)" – 1:30

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