Touchdown Buffalo
| Touchdown Buffalo | ||||
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| 📅 Released | 6 May 2014 | |||
| ⏳ Length | 21:27 | |||
| 🏷️ Label | Mint 400 Records, Fourth Row Records | |||
| 🤑 Producer | Sink Tapes, Clearcut Recordings | |||
| Sink Tapes chronology | ||||
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Touchdown Buffalo is the fourth studio album that is from the American rock band Sink Tapes.
Content[edit]
The eleven-track album was released digitally on 6 May 2014 with Mint 400 Records, and on cassette tape with Fourth Row Records.[1] It was produced by Sink Tapes, and mastered by Clearcut Recordings. Touchdown Buffalo is described as jangly indie pop with synthetic, driving drums, acoustic guitars and gnarled, droning keys.[1][2] It draws comparison to the music of the shoegaze and alternative rock band the Jesus and Mary Chain, and the post-punk band the Psychedelic Furs.[3] The track "What Wants, What Needs" was rerecorded for the album Window Unit Blues.
In a 2016 interview with The Daily Progress, Gabe Chiarello explains that Touchdown Buffalo was "less of a full-band effort and more of just dealing with what we had at the moment," and the songs were demos that "we'd use in a live set and then change [them]."[2]
Reception[edit]
A review by Sarah Deneault for Speak Into My Good Eye says "after listening to the first six tracks off of Touchdown Buffalo, I felt like I was transported to the dance floor of any 1980's movie with a prom scene[;] the vocals are quite airy, and in the tone of a lullaby, ultimately generating a different atmosphere than the band's first recorded album Same Strange Dream." The piece ends with "I was ready to accept Touchdown Buffalo as the band’s chilled-out, 2014 indie interpretation of how Frankie really says relax, but perhaps these guys are trying to say more... like that they're Buffalo Bills fans."[4]
Track listing[edit]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "I Told You To Trade It" | 1:37 |
| 2. | "Small Thought" | 1:37 |
| 3. | "Vegas Hotel Yoga Spa" | 3:05 |
| 4. | "Repeat Endlessly" | 1:10 |
| 5. | "Asterik Astrid" | 2:41 |
| 6. | "Dishes in the Dark" | 1:46 |
| 7. | "Same Thing (Not Sure About Any of You)" | 1:32 |
| 8. | "Throwing Knives" | 1:30 |
| 9. | "Control Freak Whisper Listener" | 1:46 |
| 10. | "What Wants, What Needs" | 1:30 |
| 11. | "Vegas Hotel Yoga Spa (demo version)" | 3:13 |
| Total length: | 21:27 | |
Personnel[edit]
- Gabe Chiarello – vocals and drums
- Alex Kielmanski – guitar
- Ricky Kuczynski – guitar and vocals
- Thomas Dalzell – bass
References[edit]
- Citations
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pirate! Staff 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cantor 2016.
- ↑ Appio 2014.
- ↑ Deneault 2014.
- Bibliography
- Appio, James (21 May 2014), "Sink Tapes, Touchdown Buffalo, 2014", CoolDad Music, retrieved 29 January 2019
- Cantor, Dave (26 December 2016), "Sink Tapes chase down the specter of indie success", The Daily Progress, retrieved 29 January 2019
- Deneault, Sarah (17 May 2014), "Album Review: Sink Tapes – Touchdown Buffalo", Speak Into My Good Eye, retrieved 29 January 2019
- Pirate! Staff (6 May 2016), "Touchdown Buffalo", Pirate!, retrieved 29 January 2019
