| Red Line | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | September 5, 2000 | |||
| Studio | National Recording Studio | |||
| Genre | Post-rock | |||
| Length | 73:18 | |||
| Label | Thrill Jockey [1] | |||
| Trans Am chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [3] |
| The Guardian | [4] |
| Pitchfork | 8.7/10 [5] |
Red Line is the fifth album by Trans Am, released in 2000. [6] [7]
The album was recorded at the band's National Recording Studio. [8] The track "Let's Take The Fresh Step Together" uses a timestretched sample of the default Windows 98 startup sound. Ian Svenonius guests on "Ragged Agenda". [9]
Trouser Press called the album "a sprawling career summary of Trans Am’s myriad obsessions," writing that "the trio stretches out on ambient mood-pieces like the baffling 'Village in Bubbles' and the psychedelic, spacious noise of 'For Now and Forever'." [1] The New York Times wrote that the band "has finally embraced free-form rock with a beat rather than derivative kitsch." [10] SF Weekly thought that "overall the album is a success—dark at times, frenetic at others, but always covered in a sticky layer of garage-sale gunk." [11]
All songs written by Trans Am (Philip Manley, Nathan Means, Sebastian Thomson) unless noted:
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