Length 42:01 Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
(2008) Smart Flesh
(2011) Release date 2 September 2008 Genre Indie folk | Producer Jesse Lauter Artist The Low Anthem Label Nonesuch Records Inc. | |
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Released September 2, 2008 (original release)
June 29, 2009 (re-release) Recorded Block Island, RI, Adorea Studio, Hamden, CT, Ouestern Studio Williamsburg, NY, Harlem, NY Similar The Low Anthem albums, Indie folk albums, Other albums | ||
The low anthem charlie darwin
Oh My God, Charlie Darwin is the third studio album by American indie folk band The Low Anthem, self-released in 2008, and re-released on June 29, 2009 on Nonesuch Records and Bella Union. Upon its re-release, vocalist and guitarist Ben Knox Miller stated that "listening to the record is akin to taking shelter during a lightning storm among nostalgic remnants in a water-damaged church, whose new tenants – rats, owls, stray dogs and snakes – comprise a burgeoning, cacophonous, dog-eat-dog ecosystem."
Contents
In 2012, Tom Jones covered the song, "Charlie Darwin", on his studio album, Spirit in the Room.
Writing and composition
In 2010, Ben Knox Miller noted, "The Darwin record was this record about environmental decay and social de-evolution and the death of morality and all these very grand things."
Track listing
- "Charlie Darwin" - 4:33
- "To Ohio" - 3:19
- "Ticket Taker" - 3:08
- "The Horizon Is A Beltway" - 2:51
- "Home I'll Never Be" (Jack Kerouac/Tom Waits) - 2:50
- "Cage the Songbird" - 4:03
- "(Don't) Tremble" - 4:39
- "Music Box" - 1:52
- "Champion Angel" - 5:34
- "To the Ghosts Who Write History Books" - 3:31
- "OMGCD" - 2:04
- "To Ohio (Reprise)" - 3:42
Songs
1Charlie Darwin4:32
2To Ohio3:19
3The Horizon Is a Beltway2:51