Buildings and Grounds

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Buildings and Grounds
BuildingsandGrounds PapasFritas AlbumCover.jpg
Studio album by
Papas Fritas
ReleasedMarch 7, 2000
RecordedThe Columnated Ruins, Gloucester, MA
The Backporch, Somerville, MA and
The Krackhaus
Genre Indie rock, pop music
Length48:20
Label Minty Fresh
Producer Papas Fritas
Papas Fritas chronology
Helioself
(1997)		Buildings and Grounds
(2000)		 Pop Has Freed Us
(2003)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Spin 5/10 [4]

Buildings and Grounds is the third and final studio album [5] by Papas Fritas, released on Minty Fresh in 2000. [6] [7] In Australia it was distributed by local label Half a Cow, their first release of a non-Aussie album since Bettie Serveert's Palomine five years earlier. [8]

Contents

Critical reception

The Austin Chronicle wrote that "the arrangements are particularly grin-inducing, with their headphone-ready little tweaks and snippets of synthesized smarts and fleshy string flourishes." [9] The Washington Post wrote that the band "doesn't overstate or over-embellish its material, relying on direct arrangements, bright tunes and the boy-girl vocal contrast between the band's two singers." [10]

Track listing

  1. "Girl" (Tony Goddess) – 3:18
  2. "People Say" (Goddess, Shivika Asthana) – 4:26
  3. "Way You Walk" (Goddess) – 3:48
  4. "Vertical Lives" (Keith Gendel) – 3:39
  5. "What Am I Supposed to Do?" (Goddess) – 2:58
  6. "Far From an Answer" (Asthana, Goddess) – 4:56
  7. "I Believe in Fate" (Goddess) – 3:58
  8. "It's Over Now" (Asthana, Goddess) – 4:15
  9. "Questions" (Goddess) – 3:18
  10. "Beside You" (Asthana, Goddess) – 3:23
  11. "Another Day" (Goddess) – 3:03
  12. "I'll Be Gone" (Asthana, Ed Buck) – 3:30
  13. "Lost in a Dream" (Goddess) – 3:48

Personnel

Production notes

Recorded at the Columnated Ruins (Gloucester, Mass.) and the Backporch and the Krackhaus (Somerville, Massachusetts). Engineered and mixed by Paul Sanni. Analog consultation by Paul Q. Kolderie. Mastered by Roger Siebel at SAE (Phoenix, Arizona).

References

  1. ↑ Buildings and Grounds at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-07-13.
  2. ↑ "Robert Christgau: CG: Papas Fritas". www.robertchristgau.com.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 6. MUZE. p. 403.
  4. ↑ "Jump Cuts". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. April 9, 2000 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ "Papas Fritas | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. ↑ "Reviews". CMJ New Music Monthly. CMJ Network, Inc. March 9, 2000 – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ "Lost Classics: Papas Fritas "Buildings And Grounds"". March 12, 2009.
  8. ↑ "Papas Fritas". halfacow.com.au. Half a Cow Records. Archived from the original on July 12, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Papas Fritas Buildings & Grounds (Minty Fresh)". www.austinchronicle.com.
  10. ↑ "ANNE SUMMERS "Very Classy" Beatville". www.washingtonpost.com.
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