There's a Star Above the Manger Tonight
Red Red Meat
LP Rel Date: 1984-11-11
Limited double vinyl LP pressing includes digital download with five bonus tracks. With it's final album, Chicago quartet Red Red Meat completed a journey started in the early '90s, concluding a study in evolution, moving from it's shambolic blues rock roots into an experimental combo. THERE'S a STAR ABOVE THE MANGER TONIGHT is the sound of a band blooming even as it folds in - finding Tim Rutili (Califone), Brian Deck (Modest Mouse/Iron And Wine engineer), Ben Massarella (Califone/Orso), and Tim Hurley incorporating samplers, loops, and computers, marrying disparate threads of hip-hop, Krautrock, and dub to folk forms, stomps and blues.
Tracklist:
- Sulfur
- There's a Star Above the Manger Tonight
- Chinese Balls
- Second Hand Sea
- All Tied
- Paul Pachel
- Bury Me
- Airstream Driver
- Mechanix (From Cold Milk) 1
- Quarter Horses (B-Slow) 1
- Just Like An Egg on Stilts 1
- Pachel Revisited 1
- Welcome Christmas 1
- Tin Hands ; Lazy Motors 1
- Milk for the Mechanics 1
- Snow Shoe Waltz 1
- Steal Away