Strange Bird

Strange Bird

Infobox Album
Name = Strange Bird
Type = studio
Artist = Augie March


Released = November 26, 2002
Genre = Indie Rock
Length = 62:16
Label = BMG Australia
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:xjyvadzkq8wo link]
*"Crawdaddy!" (favorable) [http://crawdaddy.wolfgangsvault.com/Article.aspx?id=3438 2007]
*Pitchfork (8.2/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/15212/Augie_March_Strange_Bird 1/13/05]
*"Rolling Stone" (favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/augiemarch/albums/album/6450689/review/6484131/strange_bird 9/13/04]
Last album = "Sunset Studies"
(2000)
This album = 'Strange Bird'
(2002)
Next album = "Moo, You Bloody Choir" (2006)

"Strange Bird" is the second studio album by the Australian indie rock band Augie March. It was first released on October 14, 2002 [cite web
title = Augie March Official Discography - Strange Bird
url=http://www.augiemarch.com/releases/home.do?catalogueNo=74321968622&bc=1
accessdate = 2008-01-12 ] in Australia by BMG and was re-released in the United States on September 14, 2004 by spinART [cite web
title = Augie March: Strange Bird - PopMatters Review
url=http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/12404/augiemarch-strange/
accessdate = 2008-01-12 ] .

"Strange Bird" followed up from the success of the band's moderately successful first album, Sunset Studies, which was voted as one of the best albums of 2000 by listeners of national Australian radio network Triple J [cite web
title = triple j's best albums of the year (sic)
url=http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/2004/best_albums/2000.htm
accessdate = 2008-01-12 ] . "Strange Bird" was quite a departure for the band, replacing the often mellow melodies of the first album with a more expansive, direct sound.

Reception

The artist was acclaimed upon release by criticsFact|date=January 2008.

Triple J listeners voted "This Train Will Be Taking No Passengers" to number #66 in the 2002 Triple J Hottest 100 poll [cite web
title = Hottest 100 History: 2002
url=http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/history/2002.htm
accessdate = 2008-01-12 ] .

Track listing

# "The Vineyard" – 5:01
# "This Train Will Be Taking No Passengers" – 4:30
# "Little Wonder" – 4:03
# "The Night Is a Blackbird" – 5:22
# "O Mi Sol Li Lon" – 1:21
# "Song in the Key of Chance" – 4:53
# "Up the Hill and Down" – 0:22
# "There's Something at the Bottom of the Black Pool" – 4:19
# "Addle Brains" – 5:29
# "The Keepa" – 5:40
# "The Drowning Dream" – 4:37
# "Sunstroke House" – 5:17
# "Brundisium" – 6:48
# "O Song" – 4:26

References


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