Silent Steeples

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Silent Steeples
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Studio album by Dispatch
Released 1996
Recorded June - July 1996
Genre Rock
Length57:05
Label Bomber, Foundations, Universal
Producer Dispatch
Dispatch chronology
Silent Steeples
(1996)
Bang Bang
(1997)
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Silent Steeples is a 1996 album by American indie/roots folk band Dispatch. Unlike their future releases, the album contained mostly acoustic folk rock songs.

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Contents

Track listing

  1. "Steeples" (Urmston)
  2. "Past the Falls" (Corrigan)
  3. "Water Stop" (Heimbold)
  4. "Hey, Hey" (Heimbold, Urmston, Corrigan)
  5. "Flying Horses" (Urmston)
  6. "Questioned Apocalypse" (Urmston)
  7. "Seasons: Movement III" (Corrigan)
  8. "Mayday" (Heimbold)
  9. "Born Normal" (Urmston)
  10. "Bridges (Strength in Numbers)" (Heimbold)
  11. "Walk With You" (Corrigan)
  12. "Elias" (Urmston)

Remastered version

A later release of the album with remastered tracks included the following songs after "Elias":

Personnel

Brad Corrigan American musician

Brad Corrigan is a musician who is a member of the indie band Dispatch, which reunited in 2011 after a hiatus of several years. He is often known by the stage name Braddigan and has been pursuing a successful solo effort since 2003 under that name, having released two albums independently on his own label, Third Surfer Music.

Su Lian Tan is a Malaysian-born American composer and flautist. Her works have been commissioned by the Takács Quartet, Meridian Arts Ensemble and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. She is currently a professor of music at Middlebury College in Vermont teaching Composition and Music Theory classes.

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