Here's to Shutting Up

Infobox Album |
Name = Here's to Shutting Up
Type = Album
Artist = Superchunk


Released = September 18, 2001
Recorded =
Genre = Alternative, Indie rock
Length = 43:41
Label = Merge Records
Producer = Brian Paulson, Superchunk
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ytarqj6qojfa link]
* Pitchfork Media (7.9/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22157-heres-to-shutting-up link]
Last album = "Come Pick Me Up" (1999)
This album = "Here's to Shutting Up" (2001)
Next album = "The Clambakes Series Vol. 1" (2002)

"Here's to Shutting Up" is the eighth studio album by Superchunk. Brian Paulson, who served as co-producer, previously worked with the band on 1994's "Foolish".

On this album, the band continued to develop away from the fuzzy punk-pop of its earlier days to something more textured. Keyboards, strings and acoustic guitars abound, and even a pedal steel makes an appearance on "Phone Sex."

The band left "Phone Sex" out of the initial performances of the accompanying tour; with the 11 September 2001 attacks a painfully fresh memory, the members felt uncomfortable performing a song featuring the lyrics "Plane crash footage on TV / I know, I know that could be me." [http://www.highbeam.com/library/docFree.asp?DOCID=1G1:85700188]

The title of the album is taken from the opening of the song "Out on the Wing."

Track listing

# "Late-Century Dream"
# "Rainy Streets"
# "Phone Sex"
# "Florida's on Fire"
# "Out on the Wing"
# "The Animal Has Left its Shell"
# "Act Surprised"
# "Art Class (Song for Yayoi Kusama)"
# "What Do You Look Forward To?"
# "Drool Collection"