| The Heart's Tremolo | ||||
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| Released | 1994 | |||
| Recorded | Oct 1993 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | 45:55 | |||
| Label | Simple Machines [1] | |||
| Producer | Tsunami | |||
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The Heart's Tremolo is the second album by the American alternative rock band Tsunami, released in 1994. [2] [3] The band supported the album with a North American tour. [4]
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| AllMusic |   [5] |
Trouser Press wrote that "the band explores artful pop terrain that is alternately lushly balladic and quirky in an almost avant-folk manner." [6] The Washington Post determined that "since Tsunami is better at texture than riffs or tunes, most of the songs offer few counterpoints to the basic dirge." [7] The Guardian concluded that "such wryly intelligent lyrics deserve a more dynamic setting." [8]
Nashville Scene , in 1997, panned "the junior-high-loser love poetry that Toomey crooned." [9]
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