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Separation Sunday (Import) (Vinyl)

By: The Hold Steady (Artist)

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The Hold Steady Artist Snapshot:

The thinking man's bar band, the Hold Steady use a thundering classic-rock template--evoking everything from Boston to the Faces--as a base from which lead singer Craig Finn delivers his epic sung-spoken Springsteen-esque narratives of searching for faith and redemption at the bottom of an empty bottle. Refreshingly irony-free, the Hold Steady are one of the best reminders of rock & roll's classic spirit to have emerged in the early years of the new millennium.

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Separation Sunday (Import) (Vinyl) Album By The Hold Steady (Artist)
1   Hornets! Hornets!  
2   Cattle And The Creeping Things  
3   Your Lilttle Hoodrat Friend  
4   Banging Camp  
5   Charlemagne In Sweatpants  
6   Stevie Nix  
7   Multitude Of Casualties  
8   Don't Let Me Explode  
9   Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night  
10   Crucifixion Cruise  
11   How A Resurrection Really Feels  
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (pp.81-81) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[A]t once surreal and gloriously sweaty....SUNDAY succeeds as a whirlwind tour through an overstuffed brain."
Spin (p.64) - Ranked #10 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2005" -- "[T]hese Brooklynites bust out chapter two of indiedoms most incisive soap opera."
Uncut (p.110) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "Franz Nicolay's piano...becomes an essential emotional component of The Hold Steady's evolving ambitions on the second album..."
Magnet (p.52) - Ranked #15 in Magnet's "The 20 Best Albums Of 2005" - "No hungover opportunist should miss this concept album about party martyrs."
Magnet (p.98) - "SEPARATION SUNDAY is a book-on-tape, a grim and funny tome that draws from the Bible and FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS."

Title Note

The Hold Steady: Craig Finn (vocals, guitar); Tad Kubler (guitar); Franz Nicolay (keyboards); Galen Polivka (bass guitar); Bobby Drake (drums).

The intensity of any song on the Hold Steady's SEPARATION SUNDAY should be enough to pop most listeners' sprockets. The project of ex-Lifter Puller vocalist/guitarist Craig Finn, the Hold Steady plays music that draws on the sound and structure of classic rock, complete with air-guitar-inspiring riffs and solos, thunderous drum breaks, blasting horns, and rollicking piano. Yet it is Finn's writing and singing that makes the Hold Steady special. Sounding like a cross between Bruce Springsteen and the Fall's Mark E. Smith, Finn channels his startlingly imaginative lyrics through an angry sing-shout.

Finn has a penchant for detail-rich character sketches ("Stevie Nix"), depictions of hard living ("Cattle and the Creeping Things"), and religious metaphor ("How a Resurrection Really Feels"). With lyrics that bear testimony to a life lived to the hilt, Finn's songs overflow with brilliance, anguish, and passion, and even at his most narrative and witty ("Charlemagne in Sweatpants") he paints unsettling, mesmerizing pictures. Yet the Hold Steady's general sound is straight out of FM radio, lifting Finn's dark meditations on a heroic wave of rock grandeur. Familiar and utterly unique at once, SEPARATION SUNDAY demands attention and a very loud stereo.

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