So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness

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So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness
So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness by Joan Arc (album cover).jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 4, 2003
Genre Indie rock
Length46:43
Label Jade Tree
Producer Graeme Gibson, Califone
Joan of Arc chronology
How Can Any Thing So Little Be Any More? EP
(2001)
So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness
(2003)
In Rape Fantasy and Terror Sex We Trust
(2003)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
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Metacritic 75/100 [1]
Review scores
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So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness is the fifth full-length album by Joan of Arc, released in 2003 by Jade Tree Records. Initially envisioned as a double-album, tracks recorded during the same sessions as So Much... were instead released as In Rape Fantasy and Terror Sex We Trust later that year.

Track listing

  1. On A Bedsheet In The Breeze On The Roof - 6:17
  2. The Infinite Blessed Yes - 4:27
  3. Perfect Need And Perfect Completion - 5:35
  4. Olivia Lost - 5:16
  5. Diane Cool And Beautiful - 3:43
  6. Mr. Participation Billy - 2:20
  7. Mean To March - 4:48
  8. Hello Goodnight Good Morning Goodbye - 2:45
  9. Dead Together - 4:08
  10. Madelleine Laughing - 4:14
  11. Staying Alive And Lovelessness - 3:08

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References

  1. "So Much Staying Alive & Lovelessness by Joan of Arc". Metacritic . Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  2. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r619378
  3. Amorosi, A.D. (2003-01-29). "Reviews of new pop, blues and classical releases" . Philadelphia Inquirer . Retrieved 2024-04-04 via General OneFile.