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ARTiST: Blitzen Trapper
ALBUM: Furr
BiTRATE: 195kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Subpop
GENRE: Indie
SiZE: 57.45 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 38min 59sec total
RiP DATE: 2008-09-27
STORE DATE: 2008-09-26

Track List:
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01. Sleepytime in the Western World 3:29
02. Gold for Bread 2:46
03. Furr 4:07
04. God & Suicide 2:21
05. Fire & Fast Bullets 2:51
06. Saturday Nite 2:07
07. Black River Killer 3:28
08. Not Your Lover 2:50
09. Love U 3:01
10. War On Machines 3:19
11. Stolen Shoes & A Rifle 2:46
12. Echo/Always On/EZ Con 3:28
13. Lady on the Water 2:26

Release Notes:
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Furr is the fourth record by Portland sextet Blitzen Trapper and the follow-up
to last year’s highly acclaimed Wild Mountain Nation. Written in the gaps of the
group’s frenetic touring schedule and recorded mostly in a hoary old telegraph
building close by the Willamette River, the new record refines and expands on
the far-ranging yet distinctive songcraft that lies at the heart of Blitzen
Trapper’s unique appeal.

Like its predecessor, Furr was made largely in the group’s studio at Sally
Mack’s School of Dance, which is housed in the aforementioned telegraph building
near downtown Portland. This is a small T-shaped room with high ceilings, a
couch, a hot-plate, and a mixing console. During reprieves from tour, songwriter
and producer Eric Earley lived furtively in the studio, crashing on the couch,
but rising with the sun or staying up into the nether hours when the other bands
in the building quit and went home. It was during these quiet times that the new
songs took shape, with rhythm sections printed hot to four-track and then
layered and embellished and deconstructed or sometimes just left the way they
were.

One key to this new material was an ancient, warped piano that appeared in the
hallway one day at Sally Mack’s School of Dance and which was subsequently
muscled into the group’s studio. Though out of tune and missing teeth, this
piano became the warhorse upon which Earley wrote and recorded much of Furr. The
beast has gone away to the landfill now, but you can still hear the clacking and
clattering of its rickety skeleton in songs like “Not Your Lover” and “Echo.”

Blitzen Trapper is a group of native Northwesterners, most of whom grew up in
Salem, Oregon. They have lived and played together in Portland since 2000.
Critics and fans have compared their music to just about everything; there have
been calls to coin a new genre. After self-releasing Wild Mountain Nation in
June of 2007, the group ventured beyond the West Coast for the first time to
tour extensively in Europe and North America. Furr is their first Sub Pop
release.

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