Slow Note From a Sinking Ship

Infobox Album |
Name = Slow Note From A Sinking Ship
Type = Album
Artist = Portastatic
Released = 1995
Genre = Indie rock
Length = |55:25
Label = Merge Records
Producer = Mac McCaughan and Jerry Kee
Engineer + [Jerry Kee] and [Mac McCaughan]
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3bfwxqqhld0e link]
Last album = "I Hope Your Heart Is Not Brittle" (1994)
This album = "Slow Note From A Sinking Ship" (1995)
Next album = "The Nature of Sap" (1997)

"Slow Note From A Sinking Ship" is Portastatic's second studio album. It was released on Merge Records in 1995. The album was recorded at Duck Kee Studios by Jerry Kee, except Skinny Glasses Girl, The Angels of Sleep, Spooky, Running Water and Isn't That The Way, which were recorded by Mac McCaughan on a Tascam 624 4-Track cassette recorder "with little or no engineering involved." The CD and Vinyl versions of the album had different track listings and running orders. "Spooky" and the hidden track appear on the CD only. "Your Own Cloud" appears on the LP only. In addition the second side of the vinyl LP ends with an endless loop of synth sound from the ending of "In The Manner of Anne Frank."

CD Track listing

# "When You Crashed"
# "Skinny Glasses Girl"
# "San Andreas"
# "Taking You With Me"
# "The Angles of Sleep"
# "A Cunning Latch"
# "Spooky"
# "The Great Escape"
# "Running Water"
# "You Can't Win"
# "Isn't That The Way"
# "On Our Hands"
# "Pastime"
# "In The Manner of Anne Frank"
# "Hidden Track"

Vinyl LP Track listing

ide 1

# "Your Own Cloud"
# "San Andreas"
# "Skinny Glasses Girl"
# "When You Crashed"
# "You Can't Win"
# "Running Water"
# "A Cunning Latch"

ide 2

# "The Great Escape"
# "Isn't That The Way"
# "Taking You With Me"
# "On Our Hands"
# "The Angles of Sleep"
# "Pastime"
# "In The Manner of Anne Frank"