Acrobatic Tenement

Infobox Album |
Name = Acrobatic Tenement
Type = Album
Artist = At the Drive-In


Released = August 18, 1996
Recorded = July, 1996
Genre = Post-Hardcore
Length = 32:20
Label = Flipside
Producer = Blaze James, Doug Green
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0avsa93gi23d link]
* Drowned in Sound (10/10) [http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/4795 link]
Last album = "Alfaro Vive, Carajo!"
(1995)
This album = "Acrobatic Tenement"
(1996)
Next album = "El Gran Orgo"
(1997)

"Acrobatic Tenement" is the debut album from At the Drive-In, released in 1996. None of the album's tracks made it to the 2005 compilation album "This Station Is Non-Operational", with the exception of "Initiation" appearing as a live BBC recording. The album, along with "In/Casino/Out" and "Relationship of Command", was reissued by Fearless Records in 2004.

"Embroglio" was written about Julio Venegas, a close friend of the band, who committed suicide in 1996. Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López, as The Mars Volta, would later record and dedicate the album "De-Loused in the Comatorium" entirely to Venegas.

Track listing

# "Star Slight" – 1:18
# "Schaffino" – 2:49
# "Ebroglio" – 2:47
# "Initiation" – 3:26
# "Communication Drive-In" – 1:44
# "Skips on the Record" – 3:07
# "Paid Vacation Time" – 3:33
# "Ticklish" – 4:35
# "Blue Tag" – 3:17
# "Coating of Arms" – 2:46
# "Porfirio Diaz" – 2:58

Personnel

*Cedric Bixler-Zavala - Lead vocals
*Jim Ward - Guitar, back-up vocals
*Adam Amparan - Guitar
*Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Bass
*Ryan Sawyer - Drums