Last Days of Wonder

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Last Days of Wonder
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Studio album by
the Handsome Family
Released2006
Length43:23
Label Carrot Top / Loose Music
The Handsome Family chronology
Singing Bones
(2003)		Last Days of Wonder
(2006)		 Honey Moon
(2009)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 80/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
The A.V. Club A− [2]
Pitchfork Media 6.7/10 [3]
Robert Christgau A− [4]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Last Days of Wonder is the seventh studio album by the Handsome Family. It was released 2006 by Carrot Top Records (North America) / Loose Music (Europe). The title is a reference to Puritan scientist and witch-hunter Cotton Mather's 1693 book Wonders of the Invisible World , which lyricist Rennie Sparks found intriguing because of what she called its "madness brimming under the surface of things." [6]

Contents

Reception

The album was well received by critics: according to Metacritic, the album has received an average review score of 80/100, based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1] Critic Robert Christgau wrote, "At her best—which must not come easy, or they'd release more and more consistent albums—Rennie Sparks is a great American realist." [4] The A.V. Club's Christopher Bahn said that "the Sparks don't seem particularly interested in experimenting with new musical styles, but that isn't a weakness so much as an unswerving fix on what they do better than anyone else." [2]

Track listing

  1. "Your Great Journey" – 3:13
  2. "Tesla's Hotel Room" – 3:56
  3. "These Golden Jewels" – 3:32
  4. "After We Shot The Grizzly" – 3:33
  5. "Flapping Your Broken Wings" – 3:45
  6. "Beautiful William" – 4:22
  7. "All The Time In Airports" – 3:43
  8. "White Lights" – 3:36
  9. "Bowling Alley Bar" – 2:52
  10. "Hunter Green" - 4:29
  11. "Our Blue Sky" - 2:59
  12. "Somewhere Else To Be" - 3:23

Personnel

Source: [7]

The Handsome Family

with:

Technical

References

  1. 1 2 "Last Days of Wonder Reviews". Metacritic.com. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  2. 1 2 Bahn, Christopher (July 5, 2006). "Review: The Handsome Family, Last Days Of Wonder". The A.V. Club . Retrieved April 28, 2015.
  3. ↑ "The Handsome Family: Last Days of Wonder". Pitchfork .
  4. 1 2 Christgau, Robert. "The Handsome Family". Robert Christgau . Retrieved June 1, 2023.
  5. ↑ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1637. ISBN   978-0-85712-595-8 . Retrieved June 1, 2023.
  6. ↑ Bahn, Christopher (February 8, 2006). "Interview: Brett and Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family". A.V. Club. Retrieved April 28, 2015.
  7. ↑ cf. Brett & Rennie Sparks (2006): Credits. In Last Days Of Wonder [CD booklet]. Chicago: Carrot Top Records.


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