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The Campbell Apartment - Insomniac's Almanac (2008)

Date: 16 Dec 2017 04:38:12

Insomniac's Almanac is the title The Campbell Apartment gave for the album they released in 2008. The project comes courtesy of Headphone Treats/Blacktop.

The Campbell Apartment formed in mid to late 2007 when long-time friends Ari Vais and Dan Haag had a conversation about how for the 10 years they have known each other, they've always wanted to play together but never have. So now they have collaborated to create the first album "Insomniacs Almanac" which I can say has a Guided By Voices meets Fountains of Wayne-styled sound. So it's no surprise that FOW is touring with them. The opener "Long Distance Relationship" sounds like an outtake from GBV's "Alien Lanes" with contrasting vocal and guitar melodies that melt together. The short tunes are full of cognizant material and occasionally hilarious lyrics. Both "Wife" and "St. Louis" have those wonderful hook-filled choruses and stream of thought details similar to FOW. By mid album, the tone changes a bit to more topical humor, an example are the very funny "How To Be Alone" and "Addicted To MySpace" that fans of Jonathan Coulton or They Might Be Giants will appreciate. The next group of songs "Afterthought" and "Stuck" get a lttile more guitar heavy and lean closer towards Weezer. Toward album's end Vais and Haag ruminate on the effects of creative burnout. This is evidenced with "Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired" and the tired theme continues with "Feverish and Friendly" where they mention "the only thing that I can think of is sleep." Overall a fine album that will appeal without a doubt to GBV and FOW fans, as well as anyone who thinks they spend too much time on a computer… Wait, do I have an e-mail? Let me check.

01. Long Distance Relationship (Is A Four Letter Word)
02. dna
03. River Of Sound
04. St. Louis
05. Wife
06. Insomniac's Almanac
07. How To Be Alone
08. Addicted To MySpace
09. Sunday Night Blues
10. Afterthought
11. Struck
12. Sick And Tired Of Being Sick And Tired
13. Feverish & Friendly
14. Stranger (Bonus Track)
15. Greyhound (Bonus Track)
16. Trip To Action (Bonus Track)

Ari Vais-vocals, guitars, keyboards
Dan Haag-bass, vocals
Dave Harman-drums, vocals

Percussion, additional guitars and organs by Ian Love
Viola on tracks 6 and 9 by Suzannah Scott-Moncrieff

Produced, engineered and Mixed by Ian Love
Brooklyn Love Studios, Brooklyn, NY, January 26th-February 2nd-2008
Mastered by Jimmy Ether

EAC Log

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008

EAC extraction logfile from 13. April 2009, 18:21

The Campbell Apartment / Insomniac's Almanac

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15 | 34:06.11 | 1:49.71 | 153461 | 161706
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