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Released | 2000 | |||
Genre | Indie rock | |||
Label | Esque/Lancaster Records [1] File 13 [2] | |||
Producer | Brian McTear | |||
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Measure is the second album by Matt Pond PA, released in 2000. [4] [5]
The album was produced by Brian McTear. Pond rewrote many of the songs during the recording sessions, eventually bringing in a drummer. [6]
Exclaim! wrote that "the winning pop disc thrives on the honeyed tones of Pond's voice and poignant arrangements." [7] The Philadelphia Daily News likened the "folky, string-drenched arrangements" to those of Jeremy Enigk. [1] PopMatters called the album "aching, melancholic, orchestral pop that bordered on gloom and despair without crossing over into the realm of the ominous." [8] In a review of the band's next album, The Green Fury , The A.V. Club deemed Measure "magnificent." [9]
Stereo Type A is the second studio album by Cibo Matto released in 1999. As the group disbanded in 2001, it was their last studio album prior to their 2011 reunion. The album peaked at number 171 on the Billboard 200, and also reached the top spot of CMJ's College charts.
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Head of Femur is an American Chicago-based band, formed in November 2001 by Nebraska natives Mike Elsener, Ben Armstrong and Matt Focht. The band was initially conceived as a forum for the three to compose pop songs while awaiting the reformation of their previous band, Pablo's Triangle. As the weeks passed the reformation looked unlikely.
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I Thought You Were Sleeping EP is the follow-up to Matt Pond PA's second album Measure. It was released on April 17, 2001.
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Man About Town is the fourth studio album by American singer Mayer Hawthorne. It was released on April 8, 2016, by BMG Rights Management and Vagrant Records.
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