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Now You Know (Doug Martsch album)

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Released
  
2002

Length
  
40:13

Release date
  
2002

Genres
  
Rock music, Rock and roll

Recorded
  
Fall 1999

Artist
  
Doug Martsch

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

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Similar
  
Doug Martsch albums, Rock music albums

Doug martsch now you know 2002 full album


Now You Know is a solo album released by Doug Martsch of indie rock band Built to Spill. Unlike Martsch's rock-oriented work with Built to Spill, the album touches on blues and folk in addition to rock. Now You Know was released in 2002 on Up Records label.

Contents

Doug martsch offer


Track listing

  1. "Offer"
  2. "Dream"
  3. "Gone"
  4. "Window"
  5. "Heart (Things Never Shared)"
  6. "Lift"
  7. "Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind on Jesus)"
  8. "Instrumental"
  9. "Sleeve"
  10. "Impossible"
  11. "Stay"

Critical reception

Pitchfork Media says the album has "a Delta blues sound-- a style closer to the point in musical evolution where country/western and blues went their separate, segregated ways" and also called it "Blooze for Dummies." The reviewer also noted that most of the songs begin "with bluesy intentions, but only a handful (... "Offer"... and... "Stay") stick with that dynamic for their duration." The reviewer seemed mostly not to enjoy the departure from the Built to Spill sound, remarking that "the more familiar-sounding material is what really sticks amongst these eleven tracks."

Rolling Stone calls the album "bare-bones folk blues that recalls O Brother, Where Art Thou? more than anything by... Built to Spill." The reviewer sees the album as being influenced by "such Delta bluesmen as Fred McDowell" as well as by "Ralph Stanley and J Mascis."

Songs

1Offer3:07
2Dream3:20
3Gone3:17

References

Now You Know (Doug Martsch album) Wikipedia