School of the Flower

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School of the Flower
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Studio album by
Six Organs of Admittance
ReleasedJanuary 25, 2005
Genre Experimental rock
Label Drag City [1]
Six Organs of Admittance chronology
The Manifestation
(2004)		School of the Flower
(2005)		 The Sun Awakens
(2006)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 83/100 [2]
Review scores
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Cokemachineglow 81% [5]
Drowned in Sound 9/10 [6]
Pitchfork 8.3/10 [7]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Stylus B [9]
Tiny Mix Tapes Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]

School of the Flower is an album by experimental indie rock band Six Organs of Admittance, released in 2005. [11]

Contents

Critical reception


Writing retrospectively in 2021, Pitchfork 's Brian Howe reflected on the album's initial reception: [12]

There was exactly one moment when it was possible to briefly state the kind of music that Ben Chasny makes. It was in 2005, when his uncharacteristic singer-songwriter album School of the Flower caused his seven-year-old experimental project, Six Organs of Admittance, to be linked with the acoustic psych-pop fad known as New Weird America or, somehow even more embarrassingly, freak-folk. But the former term was a particularly odd fit for him. Like the guitarist Jack Rose, Chasny’s acoustic fingerpicking looked beyond folk idioms and toward influences like the Indian raga, which he fused with drone music. This wasn’t stuff you’d sing around a campfire, and even Chasny’s least hermetic tunes felt distinct from the ersatz standards, sea shanties, and court songs that became associated with freak-folk.

Track listing

  1. "Eighth Cognition/All You've Left" – 5:22
  2. "Words for Two" – 1:40
  3. "Saint Cloud" – 5:36
  4. "Procession of Cherry Blossom Spirits" – 3:30
  5. "Home" – 3:53
  6. "School of the Flower" – 13:31
  7. "Thicker Than a Smokey" – 3:12
  8. "Lisboa" – 2:58

References

  1. ↑ "Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower | Drag City". www.dragcity.com.
  2. ↑ "Reviews for School Of The Flower by Six Organs of Admittance". Metacritic . Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  3. ↑ School of the Flower at AllMusic
  4. ↑ A series of sparse ruminations on barren landscapes and cosmic coincidence that comprises weird sound effects, acoustic finger-picking, tape loops and spectral vocal incantations. [Apr 2005, p.118]
  5. ↑ Purdom, Clayton (May 11, 2005). "Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower". Cokemachineglow . Archived from the original on September 15, 2012. Retrieved April 27, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ↑ Rauf, Raziq (January 31, 2005). "Six Organs of Admittance - School Of The Flower". Drowned in Sound . Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Six Organs of Admittance: School of the Flower". Pitchfork.
  8. ↑ It's essentially easy listening for uneasy people. [Mar 2005, p.101]
  9. ↑ Bennett, Michael (March 2, 2005). "Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower". Stylus Magazine . Archived from the original on November 27, 2007. Retrieved April 27, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  10. ↑ "Music Review: Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower". Tiny Mix Tapes.
  11. ↑ "Six Organs of Admittance School of the Flower". exclaim.ca.
  12. ↑ Howe, Brian. "Six Organs of Admittance: The Veiled Sea". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 18, 2026.


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