Raise Your Ears & Hold On To Your Heart

January 2, 2014 10:09 PM

Raise Your Ears & Hold On To Your Heart is a documentary about the recording of The Polyphonic Spree's 2007 album, The Fragile Army. Available to watch on YouTube in eight parts:
Intro & Preproduction [7m9s] Packing Up & Pachyderm Studios [4m30s] Resurrection At Pachyderm Studios [7m43s] Spaceway Studios [2m6s] Choir At Electrical Audio [9m28s] Symphonic & Percussion At Maximedia [8m3s] Lead Vocal At Maximedia, Vibes/Percussion At The Triplex [5m52s] Closing & End Credits [7m3s]

The final product: The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army

Section 21 (Together We're Heavy) & Section 22 (Running Away)
Section 23 (Get Up And Go)
Section 24 (The Fragile Army)
Section 25 (Younger Yesterday)
Section 26 (We Crawl)
Section 27 (Mental Cabaret)
Section 28 (Guaranteed Nightlife)
Section 29 (Light To Follow)
Section 30 (Watch Us Explode (Justify))
Section 31 (Overblow Your Nest)
Section 32 (The Championship)

Bonus Track:
Lithium [yes, the Nirvana song] (additional bonus: Lithium, live, Bowrey Ballroom July 10, 2013 -- amazing)

Bonus:
Running Away (official video)
We Crawl (official video)

posted by hippybear (3 comments total)

Metafilter: Shit that sounds awesome.
posted by StrikeTheViol at 11:21 PM on January 2, 2014 [1 favorite]

They keep coming into my life as a group I really should have heard about when I was younger. Did they even exist back when I was falling in love with Stereolab and Mercury Rev's Empire State album? Because I would have fallen hard for them.

I'm going to have to listen to more, but I also must admit that listening to their songs even for first time -- even if they're not of the same era that I get nostalgic for -- fills me with a nostalgia that's novel, ecstatic, and honestly somewhat difficult to take.
posted by treepour at 12:23 AM on January 3, 2014

You may remember Tim DeLaughter from Tripping Daisy.
posted by The Hamms Bear at 12:51 AM on January 3, 2014 [1 favorite]