Emerald City (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Emerald City
Type = Album
Artist = John Vanderslice


Released = July 24 2007
Genre = Indie rock
Length = 38:16
Label = Barsuk
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gnfrxzq5ldse link]
*Metacritic (82/100) [http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/vanderslicejohn/emeraldcity link]
*Pitchfork (6.2/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/44360-emerald-city]
*The Wheel's Still In Spin [http://www.thewheelsstillinspin.com/2007/08/john-vanderslic.html link]
Last album = "Pixel Revolt" (2005) | This album = "Emerald City" (2007)
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"Emerald City" is the sixth album by American singer-songwriter John Vanderslice. It was released in the United States on July 24, 2007; it leaked to the Internet on or around June 23, 2007. [ [http://loopnote.com/leak/notes/1065 ♪ ĻĖÅĶĘĐ! ♪ The Album Leak Alert - OKKERVIL RIVER's "The Stage Names" | JOHN VANDERSLICE's "Emerald City" - loopnote.com ] ] The album is named after the nickname of the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad. "I was so beaten down after the 2000 election and after 9/11 and then the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan," said Vanderslice. "I was so depleted as a person after all that stuff happened, that I had to write my way out of it. I really had to write political songs because for me it is a way of making sense and processing what is going on." [ [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/John_Vanderslice_plays_New_York_City:_Wikinews_interview Interview with John Vanderslice] , David Shankbone, "Wikinews", September 27, 2007.]

Track listing

#"Kookaburra" (5:30)
#"Time to Go" (2:28)
#"The Parade" (4:41)
#"White Dove" (4:00)
#"Tablespoon of Codeine" (5:26)
#"The Tower" (4:06)
#"The Minaret" (4:27)
#"Numbered Lithograph" (2:22)
#"Central Booking" (5:16)

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