Some Disenchanted Evening
| Some Disenchanted Evening | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1990 | |||
| Label | Flying Nun[1] | |||
| The Verlaines chronology | ||||
| ||||
Some Disenchanted Evening is an album by the Verlaines.[2][3] It was released in 1990 on Flying Nun Records.[4]
Critical reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [5] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [6] |
Trouser Press wrote that "the album’s coda, a piano ballad styled after Randy Newman, is actually the collection’s crowning achievement; harnessing a dapper melody to a bitterly sardonic lyric about failure, it reveals new-found subtlety and clarity in [Graeme] Downes’ writing."[7] The New York Times called the album "full of complex melodic variations, crescendos and elegant tempo shifts; the music has the theatrical grandeur of a symphony within the confines of rock."[8]
Track listing
All songs written by Graeme Downes, except where noted.
- "Jesus What a Jerk" - 2:37
- "The Funniest Thing" - 3:14
- "Whatever You Run Into" - 3:18
- "Faithfully Yours" - 3:43
- "Damn Shame" - 5:02
- "This Train" - 4:20
- "Down the Road" - 3:13
- "We're All Gonna Die" - 3:06
- "Anniversary" - 4:20
- "Come Sunday" - 4:01
- "It Was" - 2:27
References
- ↑ "FN129 The Verlaines Some Disenchanted Evening (1990)". Flying Nun.
- ↑ "The Verlaines Biography & History". AllMusic.
- ↑ "The World Through a Whiskey Glass". Spin. Spin Media LLC. 28 February 1990.
- ↑ "The Verlaines". AudioCulture.
- ↑ Some Disenchanted Evening at AllMusic
- ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 423.
- ↑ "Verlaines". Trouser Press.
- ↑ Schoemer, Karen (13 May 1990). "Rock from New Zealand Inhabits Its Own Hemisphere". The New York Times.