Lou Barlow / EMOH
Artist Lou Barlow
Album Title: EMOH
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: General Alternative
Format CD
Released 01/25/2005
Label Merge Records
Catalog No MRG254
Bar Code No 0 36172 95542 8
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. Holding Back The Year (3:30)
2. Home (3:23)
3. Caterpillar Girl (3:35)
4. Legendary (4:11)
5. Royalty (3:45)
6. Puzzle (3:36)
7. If I Could (3:42)
8. Monkey Begun (2:43)
9. Morning's After Me (3:44)
10. Round-N-Round (2:34)
11. Mary (3:10)
12. Confused (3:45)
13. Imagined Life (4:14)
14. The Ballad Of Daykitty (4:01)
Date Acquired 02/04/2005
Personal Rating
Acquired from Electric Fetus - Minneapolis
Purchase Price 12.99

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Notes

Tracks 1, 2, 7, 11, 12 recorded at Beech House, Nashville.
Track 3 recorded and mixed at Bliss, Los Angeles.
Track 4 recorded at Space Shed, Los Angeles.
Tracks 5, 8 to 10, 13, 14 recorded at HOME, Los Angeles.
Track 6 recorded and mixed at Slaughterhouse, Hadley, Massachusetts.
Track 1 mixed at Wedgewood, Nashville.
Tracks 2, 7, 11 mixed at Wedgewood and HOME.
Tracks 4, 10, 12, 14 mixed at Space Shed.
Tracks 5, 8, 9, 13 mixed at HOME.
Track 9 based on Chris Sluserenko's "Colonel Jeffrey Pumpernickel" concept... an early recording of the song appears on an [url=http://www.discogs.com/Various-Colonel-Jeffrey-Pumpernickel-A-Concept-Album/master/184031]album[/url] of that name, [l46578] 1000.
Track 10 originally recorded by [a=RATT].
“This is loobiecore vol.2”
Publishing:
Tracks 1 to 9, 11 to 14 by Loobiecore, BMI
Track 10 by Time Coast Music, BMI
? & © 2005 Merge Records

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Analyzed: Lou Barlow / Emoh
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR7        0.00 dB    -8.00 dB      3:31 01-Holding Back the Year
DR5        0.00 dB    -7.14 dB      3:23 02-Home
DR6        0.00 dB    -8.48 dB      3:36 03-Caterpillar Girl
DR7        0.00 dB   -10.35 dB      4:11 04-Legendary
DR7        0.00 dB   -12.02 dB      3:45 05-Royalty
DR7        0.00 dB   -10.41 dB      3:36 06-Puzzle
DR7        0.00 dB    -8.61 dB      3:42 07-If I Could
DR8        0.00 dB   -10.09 dB      2:44 08-Monkey Begun
DR8        0.00 dB   -11.41 dB      3:45 09-Morning's After Me
DR9        0.00 dB   -11.73 dB      2:34 10-Round-N-Round
DR7        0.00 dB    -8.73 dB      3:11 11-Mary
DR6        0.00 dB    -8.35 dB      3:46 12-Confused
DR10      -0.01 dB   -16.01 dB      4:15 13-Imagined Life
DR8        0.00 dB    -9.62 dB      4:02 14-The Ballad of Daykitty
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Number of tracks:  14
Official DR value: DR7

Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           792 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review:

Review by Rob Theakston

Like Charlie Brown, some people's existential angst will never fully be cleansed. After nearly 20 years it's hard to believe Lou Barlow can't find something to be happy about, but much to relief of his fans, that is clearly not the case. This second edition of Loobiecore picks up where the first volume left off but with infinitely more polish to its production -- or at least as much polish as a Barlow record could possibly have. Easily his finest, most fully realized record since the glory years of Sebadoh, Emoh takes the songs of Sentridoh and rolls them up into the production values of Folk Implosion to create a sound rarely found in the Barlow catalog. And while the topics du jour haven't changed much since the early years, he still convincingly murmurs his lyrics; exorcising the spirits of Nick Drake with great conviction and sincerity, especially during his rousing cover of Ratt's "Round and Round" (continuing a tradition that started with his excellent cover of Bryan Adams' "Run to You"). Diehards will be swooning and cheering from the first song, "Holding Back the Years" (which has harmonies the Eagles would be proud of), to the album's closer, an amusing tale of a cat. For newer Barlow fans, it's an ideal place to start and discover the depths of his catalog because of its immediate accessibility and easy listening. It's a mature, accomplished statement for one of indie rock's most reliably miserable men.

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