Can Cladders

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Can Cladders
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Studio album by
Released19 February 2007 (U.S.)
Genre Pop
Length39:42
Label Drag City [1]
The High Llamas chronology
Beet, Maize & Corn
(2003)
Can Cladders
(2007)
Talahomi Way
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The A.V. Club A− [3]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Pitchfork Media 7.3/10 [5]
Stylus Magazine C+ [6]
Tiny Mix Tapes Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]

Can Cladders is a studio album by London-based musical project the High Llamas. [8] It was released in 2007 on Drag City. [9]

Contents

Production

The High Llamas spent three years working on the album. [10]

Critical reception

The Guardian wrote that "packed with vividly coloured melodies, these songs have a luminous quality, but they also confuse the hypnotic with the repetitive, and richness of texture with gluttonous excess." [4] Exclaim! wrote that "the vibe throughout Can Cladders is too dreamily lethargic to sustain prolonged interest." [11] The Cleveland Scene wrote that the album "bubbles with a bossa-nova pulse, where cascading strings sidle up to a late-night beachside piano bar." [12]

Track listing

  1. "The Old Spring Town" – 3:29
  2. "Winter's Day" – 4:48
  3. "Sailing Bells" – 3:03
  4. "Boing Backwards" – 0:44
  5. "Honeytrop" – 3:40
  6. "Bacaroo" – 3:23
  7. "Can Cladders" – 3:26
  8. "Something About Paper" – 0:38
  9. "Clarion Union Hall" – 4:32
  10. "Cove Cutter" – 4:13
  11. "Dorothy Ashby" – 3:03
  12. "Rollin'" – 3:52
  13. "Summer Seen" – 0:51

References

  1. "The High Llamas - Can Cladders | Drag City". www.dragcity.com.
  2. Can Cladders at AllMusic
  3. "The High Llamas: Can Cladders". Music. 27 February 2007.
  4. 1 2 Costa, Maddy (16 February 2007). "CDs: The High Llamas, Can Cladders". The Guardian via www.theguardian.com.
  5. Harvey, Eric (21 February 2007). "Can Cladders". Pitchfork Media . Retrieved 13 August 2011.
  6. "The High Llamas - Can Cladders - Review - Stylus Magazine". 4 December 2007. Archived from the original on 4 December 2007.
  7. "Music Review: High Llamas - Can Cladders". Tiny Mix Tapes.
  8. "The High Llamas | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  9. "The High Llamas: Can Cladders". PopMatters. 28 February 2007.
  10. "Can Cladders - Record Collector Magazine". recordcollectormag.com.
  11. "High Llamas Can Cladders". exclaim.ca.
  12. Parker, Chris. "The High Llamas". Cleveland Scene.