Bound Stems’ The Family Afloat
01 Taking Tips from the Gallery Gang
02 It Happens to Us All, Otherwise
03 Clear Water and Concrete
04 The Palace Flophouse and Grille
05 Passing Bell
06 Only Clementine Knows
07 Winston
08 Crossed Off Together
09 Another Afternoon, Another
10 Sugar City Magic
Bound Stems’ Appreciation Night
01 Appreciation Night
02 Andover
03 Western Biographic
04 Wake Up, Ma and Pa are Gone
05 At What Point Did You Stop Believing Me?
06 Pulling on Pigtails
07 Excellent News, Colonel
08 This Is Grand
09 Fire, Burglary, Flood
10 Risking Life and Limb for the Coupon
11 Book of Baby Names
12 Refuse the Refuse
13 Walter Waters Addresses the Bonus Army
14 Rented a Tent (A Tent! A Tent!)
15 55 Cross St.
Chicago is the album’s host city, where the Civil War blends with the roar of the elevated train and the songs’ edges are embroidered with the found sounds of airport patter and clattering turnstiles, parties, private conversations, snow crunch and drifting histories.
Produced by Tim Sandusky and Evan at Chicago’s Studio Ballistico , Appreciation Night is a large and complex album in which each song could as easily be a story as a chapter. Mathy, too: opener "Andover" hides tricky time signatures under a warm patchwork blanket of vocal melody, and "This Is Grand" rolls sevens hard against sixes. There’s history rock ("Walter Waters Addresses the Bonus Army"), lit. rock ("Rented a Tent"), and social studies pop ("Wake Up, Ma & Pa Are Gone"), and each song contains moments of fierce, earnest success, where all of Bound Stems’ sonic experiments converge and fall into crashing, exultant hooks. Appreciation Night is a record of a band’s optimismism: fascination with life, a diet of interesting objects, the narrative thread. Get excited about counting again.
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"Wake Up, Ma and Pa are Gone" video