Porcella

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Porcella
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Studio album by
Released2005
Genre Rock
Length39:10
Label Paper Bag Records
The Deadly Snakes chronology
Ode to Joy
(2003)
Porcella
(2005)
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Porcella is an album by Canadian indie rock band The Deadly Snakes, released in 2005 on In the Red Records and licensed for Canadian distribution by Paper Bag Records. [1]

The album's single "Gore Veil" was named one of the ten best Canadian songs of 2005 by CBC Radio 3. The album was also subsequently shortlisted for the 2006 Polaris Music Prize. [2] It was, however, the band's final album.

In interviews around the time of the band's breakup in 2006, keyboardist Max "Age of Danger" McCabe-Lokos described Porcella's creative process as a difficult one, marked by creative tension between him and bandleader André Ethier. [3] Ethier had released a solo album in 2004, and McCabe-Lokos admitted that his own response to that was to assert greater creative control over Porcella than he had on past Snakes albums, taking on both production and mixing duties. [3]

A vinyl-only reissue of the album was released in 2006, with an altered track order and seven new songs not on the original release.

Track listing

  1. "Debt Collection" – 3:01
  2. "200 Nautical Miles" – 2:16
  3. "Sissy Blues" – 2:09
  4. "High Prices Going Down" – 2:47
  5. "Gore Veil" – 4:34
  6. "So Young & So Cruel" – 3:25
  7. "Let It All Go" – 2:57
  8. "Work" – 3:32
  9. "Oh Lord, My Heart" – 3:13
  10. "I Heard Your Voice" – 3:29
  11. "By Morning, It's Gone" – 1:54
  12. "Banquet" – 2:42
  13. "A Bird in the Hand Is Worthless" – 3:11

Porcella - A Bird in the Hand is Worthless (Double LP - vinyl only/alternate artwork)

  1. "Debt Collection" – 3:01
  2. "Sissy Blues" – 2:09
  3. "High Prices Going Down" – 2:47
  4. "Oh Lord, My Heart" – 3:13
  5. "Ambulance Man" - 4:19
  6. "She's Going Home With Him" - 2:58
  7. "Break Up Conversation" - 3:27
  8. "Bound To Get Lonely" - 2:45
  9. "By Morning, It's Gone" – 1:54
  10. "Veronica Brown" - 4:41
  11. "I Heard Your Voice" – 3:29
  12. "Don River Jail" - 2:19
  13. "Let It All Go" – 2:57
  14. "A Bird in the Hand Is Worthless" – 3:11
  15. "No Sympathy" - 4:15
  16. "Gore Veil" – 4:34
  17. "So Young & So Cruel" – 3:25
  18. "Work" – 3:32
  19. "200 Nautical Miles" – 2:16
  20. "Banquet" – 2:42

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