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Curse Your Branches

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Released
  
September 1, 2009

Language
  
English

Release date
  
1 September 2009

Label
  
Barsuk Records

Length
  
36:42

Artist
  
David Bazan

Producer
  
David Bazan

Genre
  
Indie rock

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Recorded
  
2008–2009, Bazan's home studio, Seattle, Washington, United States

Curse Your Branches(2009)
  
Live at Electrical Audio(2010)

Similar
  
David Bazan albums, Indie rock albums

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Curse Your Branches is the first full-length album by David Bazan, the former lead singer of the indie rock band Pedro the Lion. It was released on September 1, 2009, on Barsuk Records. It is rated 82/100 by critics on Metacritic, earning it the distinction of "universal acclaim".

Contents

The album was recorded from early 2008 to mid-2009 by David Bazan in his basement studio near Seattle, Washington. Additional recording, mixing, and mastering was done by long-time collaborator and former Pedro the Lion member T. W. Walsh at his studio in Massachusetts.

The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and #116 on the Billboard 200 the week of its release.

The same day as this album was released, Bazan also put out a single covering Bob Dylan's "The Man in Me" backed with Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah".

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Track listing

All songs written by David Bazan, except where otherwise noted

  1. "Hard to Be" – 6:23
  2. "Bless This Mess" – 3:57
  3. "Please Baby, Please" – 3:49
  4. "Curse Your Branches" – 3:34
  5. "Harmless Sparks" – 2:30
  6. "When We Fell" – 3:40
  7. "Lost My Shape" – 3:44
  8. "Bearing Witness" – 3:13
  9. "Heavy Breath" – 3:19
  10. "In Stitches" – 4:33
iTunes Store bonus tracks
  1. "The Man in Me" (Bob Dylan) – 2:55

Personnel

  • David Bazan – vocals, guitar, drums, synthesizer, bass guitar, piano, engineering, production
    • Additional musicians
  • David H. Bazan – piano
  • Andy Fitts – vocals
  • Casey Foubert – pedal steel guitar
  • Yukki Matthews – bass guitar, electric guitar
  • James McAlister – percussion
  • Josh Ottum – lead guitar
  • John Roderick – vocals, guitar
  • J. Tillman – vocals
  • T. W. Walsh – bass guitar, mixing, mastering, engineering
  • Blake Wescott – vocals
    • Other personnel
  • Bob Andrews – photography
  • Christian Helms and Renee Fernandez (The Decoder Ring) – cover art

    • Songs

    1Hard to Be6:23
    2Bless This Mess3:58
    3Please - Baby - Please3:49

    References

    Curse Your Branches Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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