Days for Days

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{{Infobox album|

| name = Days for Days

| type = Album

| artist = The Loud Family

| cover = Days_for_Days.jpg

| alt =

| released = May 19, 1998

| recorded = 1998

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Rock, power pop

| length = 50:14

| label = Alias Records{{Cite web|url=https://www.furious.com/perfect/loudfamily.html|title=The Loud Family - feature/interview|work=Perfect Sound Forever}}

| producer = Scott Miller

| prev_title = Interbabe Concern

| prev_year = 1996

| next_title = Attractive Nuisance

| next_year = 2000

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r350324}}

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Days for Days is an album by the Loud Family, released in 1998.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/loud-family-mn0000050960/biography|title=Loud Family Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=AllMusic}} The band's leader, Scott Miller, and the bass guitar player, Kenny Kessel, are the only members of the band remaining from the previous album. Gil Ray, who had been a member of Miller's 1980s band Game Theory, joined Miller for the album.

Odd-numbered tracks on this album are soundscapes without names, while even-numbered tracks are named songs. While the odd-numbered tracks had no listed titles on this release, subsequent live recordings of the songs (as on From Ritual to Romance) titled these tracks by number - so track 1 was "One", track 3 "Three", etc.

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "the band does rock more convincingly than before, with stomping guitars in 'Deee-Pression' and the dizzying opening melody of 'Crypto-Sicko' (a bit Big Star, a bit Talking Heads)."{{cite web |title=Loud Family |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/loud-family/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=5 October 2021}}

Track listing

All tracks by The Loud Family

  1. Untitled – 1:04
  2. "Cortex The Killer" – 5:00
  3. Untitled – 1:01
  4. "Good, There Are No Lions in the Street" – 4:17
  5. Untitled – 1:20
  6. "Deee-Pression" – 3:37
  7. Untitled – :52
  8. "Way Too Helpful" – 4:47
  9. Untitled – 1:16
  10. "Mozart Sonatas" – 2:01
  11. Untitled – :15
  12. "Businessmen Are Okay" – 4:42
  13. Untitled – :47
  14. "Crypto-Sicko" – 3:24
  15. Untitled – 1:02
  16. "Why We Don't Live in Mauritania" – 4:52
  17. Untitled – 1:23
  18. "Sister Sleep" – 8:25

Personnel

From the CD sleeve:

  • Kenny Kessel - bass guitar and vocals
  • Alison Faith Levy - I Can't Believe It's Not Flute and Gee Your Cello Smells Acoustic
  • Scott Miller - guitars and vocals
  • Gil Ray - drums, tambourine and maracas

with

  • Jonathan Segel - bouzouki, slide guitar and violin on "Sister Sleep" and "Mauritania"

References

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Category:1998 albums

Category:The Loud Family albums