Name: Flowers [Slipcase]
Brand: Polyvinyl
SKU: 625544
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Flowers [Slipcase]

Rating

Album: Flowers [Slipcase]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Fogbow
2)	Garden of Cartoon Exclamations, The
3)	Flowers
4)	Fasting
5)	Explain Yourselves
6)	Tsunshine
7)	Delicious Herbal Laxative, A
8)	Explain Yourselves
9)	Table of the Laments
10)	Fable of the Elements
11)	Life Sentence/Twisted Ladder
12)	Sun Rose, The

Performer Notes

Personnel: Tim Kinsella (vocals, guitar, guitars, ukulele, organ, synthesizer, percussion, electronics); Bobby Burg (vocals, guitar, organ, synthesizer); Paul Koob (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, organ, synthesizer, upright bass, congas); Theo Katsaounis (vocals, organ, synthesizer, drums); Ben Vida (guitar); Todd Mattei (electric guitar, organ, synthesizer, xylophone); Liz Payne (viola); Graeme Gibson (synthesizer, drums); Mike Kinsella (drums).
Audio Mixer: Graeme Gibson.
Recording information: Four Deuces, Chicago, IL (01/2008-01/2008).
Ostensibly the project of singer/guitarist Tim Kinsella (along with a rotating cast of musical co-conspirators), Chicago-based indie veterans Joan of Arc is a band that can excite as much vitriol as admiration. Eschewing traditional song structures and reveling in sometimes willfully difficult avant-discord, Kinsella's arty, often inscrutable, lyrics and tendency to nervously jump from one musical idea to the next, have made the group's sound nearly impossible to pin down over the years. The band's 10th album, FLOWERS, with its sprawling post-rock contours and loose, improvisational jams, continues to depart from easy expectations, while containing enough flashes of brilliance to reward the patient listener.

Professional Reviews

Spin (p.91) - "FLOWERS, a collection of mystical-seeming noise collages, absurdist dirges, and Pavement soundalikes, is as listenable as it is difficult to pin down..."

Alternative Press (p.127) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[Kinsella] and his mercenaries swing cleverly from noodly instrumentals to introspective acoustic ditties..."