Funeral Dress (album)

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Funeral Dress
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Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 2005
Recorded2005
Genre Indie rock, country rock, alternative rock
Length35:47
Label Shake It Records
Producer Wussy
Wussy chronology
Funeral Dress
(2005)
Left for Dead
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Robert Christgau (A) [2]
No Depression (favorable) [3]

Funeral Dress, the debut album by Wussy, was released on December 6, 2005. [1] The label, Shake It Records, released the album on CD format only.

Contents

The album received mostly positive reviews. It was chosen as the 4th greatest album of the decade by prominent critic Robert Christgau. [4]

In 2015, SPIN ranked Funeral Dress #252 on their list of the 300 best albums of the last 30 years. [5]

Track listing

  1. "Airborne" (Lisa Walker, Chuck Cleaver) – 3:17
  2. "Funeral Dress" (Walker, Cleaver, Mark Messerly) – 3:59
  3. "Soak It Up" (Walker) – 2:55
  4. "Shunt" (Cleaver) – 3:18
  5. "Conversation Lags" (Walker, Cleaver, Messerly) – 3:08
  6. "Crooked" (Walker) – 3:13
  7. "Humanbrained Horse" (Cleaver) – 3:46
  8. "Motorcycle" (Walker) – 3:56
  9. "Yellow Cotton Dress" (Cleaver) – 2:17
  10. "Bought It Again" (Walker, Cleaver) – 3:44
  11. "Don't Leave Just Now" (Walker, Cleaver) – 3:46

Acoustic album

Wussy released an acoustic version [6] of the album, titled Funeral Dress II, for Record Store Day on April 16, 2011, at Shake It Records in Northside, Cincinnati. [7]

Personnel

Wussy

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References

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  5. "The 300 Best Albums Of The Past 30 Years (1985-2014) | SPIN". 2015-05-11. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
  6. Oliphint, Joel. "Wussy: Attica! Album Review". Pitchfork . 2011's Funeral Dress II, an acoustic reworking of 2005 debut Funeral Dress
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