This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now

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This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now
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Studio album by
Knapsack
ReleasedSeptember 8, 1998
Recorded Hyde Street Studios, San Francisco, CA[ citation needed ]
Genre Indie rock, emo
Length36:07
Label Alias [1]
Poison City
Knapsack chronology
Day Three of My New Life
(1997)		This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now
(1998)
Professional ratings
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This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now is the third and final studio album by the indie rock/emo band Knapsack. [4] [5] It was released on September 8, 1998, on Alias Records, and re-released in 2014 by Poison City Records. The album title comes from lyrics for the song "Skip The Details."

Contents

Critical reception

The Morning Call called the album "full of clever, hook-laden and emotional tunes." [4] Spin , in an article about undeservedly obscure bands, wrote that This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now is "a minor classic of twentysomething despair." [6] Lollipop Magazine praised Blair Shehan and Sergie Loobkoff's guitar interplay and knack for melodies, and ended their review by commenting that the songs "will not only have you swaying back and forth uncontrollably to the rhythms, they'll send you searching for your inner child." [7] The A.V. Club thought that the album lacked the "desperate declarations" of Day Three of My New Life . [8]

Track listing

  1. "Katherine the Grateful" - 3:17
  2. "Change Is All the Rage" - 3:27
  3. "Shape of the Fear" - 4:25
  4. "Cold Enough to Break" - 3:20
  5. "Skip the Details" - 2:53
  6. "Arrows to the Action" - 3:28
  7. "Cinema Stare" - 3:04
  8. "Hummingbirds" - 4:42
  9. "Balancing Act" - 3:40
  10. "Please Shut Off the Lights" - 3:51

References

  1. ↑ "Knapsack". Alias Records.
  2. ↑ "This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now". AllMusic. Retrieved July 12, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now". www.punknews.org. November 19, 2004.
  4. 1 2 Condran, Ed (September 25, 1998). "INDIE BAND KNAPSACK EXTENDING THE 'CONVERSATION' WITH TOUR". mcall.com.
  5. ↑ "2013: The Year of the Emo Reunion | The Village Voice". www.villagevoice.com. November 15, 2013. Archived from the original on July 17, 2020.
  6. ↑ LLC, SPIN Media (August 12, 2009). "Unsung". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ Den, Tim (April 1, 1999). "Knapsack – This Conversation is Ending Starting Right Now (Alias)". Lollipop Magazine. Archived from the original on November 2, 2024. Retrieved December 5, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Knapsack's Day Three Of My New Life both defined and destroyed it". The A.V. Club. October 22, 2013.
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