City Fallen Leaves

Comet Gain | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 18, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Track And Field Records
• ASIN: B000BQVG2O
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,182,097 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fists in the Pocket

2. Days I Forgot to Write Down

3. Daydream Scars

4. Bored Roar

5. Seven Sisters to Silverlake

6. This English Melancholy

7. The Punk Got Fucked

8. The Story of the Vivian Girls

9. Just One More Summer Before I Go

10. Draw a Smile Upon an Egg

11. Fingernailed for You

12. Your Robert!

13. Gone Before We Open Our Eyes

14. Right Now? No

15. The Ballad of a Mix Tape

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great overlooked album, September 30, 2007

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This review is from: City Fallen Leaves (Audio CD)

One of the better albums of 2005, but generally not well known. The basic sound is midway between power pop and old-school punk. Indeed it might sound too old-school (derivative) at first, but the psychological and cultural context for the songs is very contemporary. If you have any affinity for the various forms that have emerged from punk in the last fifteen years or so, you should be able to get something useful from this, and if the Pacific Northwest variants (KRS, Barsuk, etc) appeal at all, this should speak powerfully.

There are some slow parts, and the second half is generally stronger than the first. But songs like "Fists in the Pockets" and "Gone before We Open Our Eyes" capture a particular kind of 30-something radical truth that should appeal well beyond genre fans. And "One More Summer before I Go" is one for the ages.

Put that Arcade Fire or Elliot Smith on lay-a-way, and spend this week's discretionary income on a lost gem instead.