It's Low Beat Time
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{{Infobox album
| name = It's Low Beat Time
| type = Album
| artist = Young Fresh Fellows
| cover = yfflowbeat.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1992
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| genre = Rock
| length =
| label = Frontier Records
| producer = Conrad Uno, Butch Vig
| prev_title = Electric Bird Digest
| prev_year = 1991
| next_title = Temptation on a Saturday
| next_year = 1995
}}
It's Low Beat Time is an album by the Americanrock band Young Fresh Fellows.{{Cite web|url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=young_fresh_fellows|title=TrouserPress.com :: Young Fresh Fellows|website=www.trouserpress.com}}{{cite web |title=The Young Fresh Fellows Biography by Jason Ankeny |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-young-fresh-fellows-mn0000689768/biography |website=AllMusic |access-date=31 December 2022}} It was released by Frontier Records in 1992.{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/11/13/songwriters-fueling-post-punk-motion/379edeb8-e5b4-474d-9e94-c75f96034627/|title=SONGWRITERS FUELING POST-PUNK MOTION|first=Geoffrey|last=Himes|date=November 13, 1992|via=www.washingtonpost.com}} The album was produced in part by Butch Vig.{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Dave |title=The Grunge Diaries: Seattle, 1990–1994 |date=2021 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |page=181}}
Critical reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r59057}}
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The Tampa Tribune wrote that "[Scott] McCaughey's brain gives his sharper songs resonating edges of meaning while avoiding lyrics that make much linear sense."{{cite news |last1=O'Neill |first1=Mike |title=Sweet nothings |work=The Tampa Tribune |date=November 13, 1992 |department=Friday Extra! |page=19}} The Seattle Times opined that "99 Girls" and "She Won't Budge" "rank with the greatest of classic Northwest rock."{{cite news |last1=MacDonald |first1=Patrick |title=FRESH FELLOWS' 'LOW BEAT' IS A REAL TREAT |work=The Seattle Times |date=October 23, 1992 |department=Tempo |page=6}}
Track listing
- Low Beat Jingle
- Right Here
- Snow White
- Mr. Anthony's Last
- Whatever You Are
- Two Headed Flight
- A Minor Bird
- Faultless
- The Crafty Clerk
- Low Beat
- Love Is A Beautiful Thing
- She Sees Color
- Monkey Say
- 99 Girls
- She Won't Budge
- Green Green
References
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Category:The Young Fresh Fellows albums
Category:Albums produced by Conrad Uno
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