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The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid

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Length
  
123:54

Release date
  
29 October 2001

Artist
  
Stars of the Lid

Label
  
Kranky


Released
  
October 29, 2001 (2001-10-29)

The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid(2001)
  
Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline(2007)

Genres
  
Ambient music, Drone music, Minimal music

Producers
  
Brian McBride, Adam Wiltzie

Similar
  
Stars of the Lid albums, Ambient music albums

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The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid is the sixth studio LP by ambient drone music group Stars of the Lid. It was released in late 2001 on the Kranky label, on two CDs and three LPs. The album features long minimal, droning compositions created from heavily treated guitar, horn, flute, piano, and other classical instruments. The second track, "Requiem For Dying Mothers, part 2", features a sample from the final scene of Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker, where the character Monkey pushes a glass across a table by way of telekinesis as a dog whines and a train whistle blows in the distance. The third track, "Down 3", contains a sample from the soundtrack to John Frankenheimer's 1966 film Seconds.

Contents

Critical reaction

The album was generally praised by critics. Thom Jurek, writing for Allmusic, stated:

The music review online magazine Pitchfork Media placed The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid at number 187 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s. Pitchfork Media also ranked the album number 6 on The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time list.

Track listing

Disc one
  1. "Requiem for Dying Mothers, part 1" – 6:36
  2. "Requiem for Dying Mothers, part 2" – 7:37
  3. "Down 3" – 5:46
  4. "Austin Texas Mental Hospital, part 1" – 2:48
  5. "Austin Texas Mental Hospital, part 2" – 12:18
  6. "Austin Texas Mental Hospital, part 3" – 5:47
  7. "Broken Harbors, part 1" – 3:31
  8. "Broken Harbors, part 2" – 6:47
  9. "Broken Harbors, part 3" – 9:16
Disc two
  1. "Mullholland" – 6:48
  2. "The Lonely People (Are Getting Lonelier)" – 10:07
  3. "Gasfarming" – 3:20
  4. "Piano Aquieu" – 10:54
  5. "FAC 21" – 3:08
  6. "Ballad of Distances, part 1" – 3:36
  7. "Ballad of Distances, part 2" – 3:00
  8. "A Lovesong (for Cubs)+, part 1" – 6:45
  9. "A Lovesong (for Cubs)+, part 2" – 8:05
  10. "A Lovesong (for Cubs)+, part 3" – 7:45

Songs

1Requiem for Dying Mothers - Part 16:38
2Requiem for Dying Mothers - Part 27:37
3Down 35:46

References

The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid Wikipedia
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