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Coping Mechanisms

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Length
  
48:00

Producer
  
Jimmy Eadie

Label
  
Trust Me I'm A Thief

Genre
  
Alternative rock Electronic music Experimental music

Coping Mechanisms is the debut album by Irish music artist Si Schroeder. It was released in 2006 by Irish independent record label Trust Me I'm A Thief.

Contents

In an interview with The Irish Times at the time of its release Si Schroeder explained that the title 'comes from observing how friends and colleagues of his deal with living in 21st-century Dublin. "The nature of living in Dublin has definitely influenced the themes on this record. There's no doubt that it has become increasingly difficult to live here, so people use mechanisms and quirks to cope with living here and staying sane."'

Reception

Coping Mechanisms was shortlisted for the 2006 Choice Music Prize Irish album of the year.

Influential Irish blogger Nialler9 named Coping Mechanisms his blog's No 1 Irish album of 2006, as did the influential Foggy Notions magazine.

Irish music magazine Hot Press scored the album 9/10 in its review and includes Coping Mechanisms in its list of '250 Greatest Irish Albums of All Time' voted for by more than 200 of Ireland's leading musicians and published in December 2009.

Irish music journalist Tony Clayton-Lea includes Coping Mechanisms in his 2011 book 101 Irish Records You Must Hear Before You Die.

Influential Irish blog Hardcore for Nerds called Coping Mechanisms Ireland's Spiderland.

Irish music website Drop-D described Coping Mechanisms as "a record that can creep inside of you to massage your soul... the album isn't electronic in the strictest sense; the pallet containing a balance between electronic and organic sounds, not to mention some of the strangest samples you're likely to hear".

Track listing

  1. The Reluctant Aviator on YouTube
  2. Lavendermist
  3. C4
  4. Eyes-wide on YouTube
  5. (Apology)
  6. Elaine's Porsche/ Poor Hélène/ Céline Pours
  7. Duck! on YouTube
  8. A Little More on YouTube
  9. Here, After

The CD album ends with an unnamed hidden track. The vinyl album omits track 5 (Apology).

Personnel

  • Si Schroeder: guitars, vocals, MPC4K, percussion, zither, wineglass
  • Bryan O'Connell: drums, percussion, triangle, beergoggle
  • John McMahon: bass harmonics on A Little More, scanner, spiritvessel
  • References

    Coping Mechanisms Wikipedia