Track Listing
1. You Make It Easy
2. Another Fine Day
3. 5-22-02
4. Long Time Ago
5. Corvette
6. Beautiful Mind
7. Listen Joe
8. Cure for This
9. Hurricane
10. Strangers
11. Frying Pan Eyes
12. Gone
13. Never Felt Before
14. I Can
15. Think About Yourself
| Details | | Producer: | Ed Ackerson, Paco Loco | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Golden Smog: Dan Murphy, Gary Louris, Jeff Tweedy, Marc Perlman, Kraig Jarret Johnson.
Audio Mixers: Ed Ackerson; Stuart Sikes.
Photographer: Steve Barri Cohen.
An on-again, off-again supergroup of the Midwest's finest country rockers, Golden Smog return with ANOTHER FINE DAY, their first album since 1998's WEIRD TALES. Once again, the group is comprised of three-fifths of the Jayhawks (Gary Louris, Mark Perlman and Kraig Johnson), Dan Murphy of Soul Asylum, drummer Jody Stephens of Big Star, and, on about half the songs, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy. No one singer or songwriter dominates the album, but the twangy, rootsy power pop of the Big Star and Jayhawks axis flourishes on songs like "Corvette" and "Gone," while Murphy's harder-rocking lead-vocal showcase, "Hurricane," nods to Soul Asylum's punky origins and Tweedy's "Listen Joe" is a spooky take on Wilco-style art-country.
Editorial Reviews
3 stars out of 5 -- Like past efforts, the new record reveals a strong fondness for '70s FM radio pop and dusky Americana.
Mojo
The title cut filters a typically fine Louris melody and winsome vocal through YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT style sonic disruptions...
No Depression
'Corvette' is possibly the outfit's best song ever, while the title track and '5-22-02' are shimmering examples of melodic Smog-pop done right.
Magnet
3 stars out of 5 -- While the power pop of 'Corvette' harks to rollicking times of yore, the desert haze shimmer of 'Gone' or tear-jerking 'Listen Joe' are no mere crumbs from the table.
Q
[T]heir commitment to fine songwriting has only strengthened, as proven by the brass-backed '5-22-02'...
Entertainment Weekly
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