Poison Arrows

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Poison Arrows
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Studio album by Communiqué
Released June 8, 2004
Recorded 2003-2004
Genre Indie rock
Length39:42
Label Lookout! Records
Communiqué chronology
A Crescent Honeymoon
(2003)
Poison Arrows
(2004)
Walk into the Light
(2006)
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Poison Arrows is the first full-length album by San Francisco indie rock band Communiqué.

San Francisco Consolidated city-county in California, US

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a city in, and the cultural, commercial, and financial center of, Northern California. San Francisco is the 13th-most populous city in the United States, and the fourth-most populous in California, with 883,305 residents as of 2018. It covers an area of about 46.89 square miles (121.4 km2), mostly at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area, making it the second-most densely populated large US city, and the fifth-most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. San Francisco is also part of the fifth-most populous primary statistical area in the United States, the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area.

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United States and United Kingdom in the 1970s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. As grunge and punk revival bands in the US and Britpop bands in the UK broke into the mainstream in the 1990s, it came to be used to identify those acts that retained an outsider and underground perspective. In the 2000s, as a result of changes in the music industry and the growing importance of the Internet, some indie rock acts began to enjoy commercial success, leading to questions about its meaningfulness as a term.

Communiqué is an indie rock band from the San Francisco Bay Area. The band originated as American Steel, but decided to record under the name Communiqué during the taping of A Crescent Honeymoon in 2002 because the synth-rock sound did not match the punk style of American Steel.

Track listing

  1. "The Best Lies" – 2:29
  2. "Evaporate" – 3:30
  3. "Ouija Me" – 2:58
  4. "Dagger Vision" – 3:32
  5. "Perfect Weapon" – 3:16
  6. "Black Curses" – 3:38
  7. "Strays" – 4:04
  8. "My Bay" – 4:38
  9. "Death Rattle Dance" – 3:56
  10. "Rattling Bones" – 7:41

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