Vinyl LP pressing. The Hold Steady's fourth album Stay Positive (2008) served as an excellent progression for the best bar band in indie rock and featured a much more adventurous sound to which the group credits producer John Agnello who also helmed their 2006 breakthrough release, Boys And Girls In America. The album sees the band include more diverse instrumentation alongside their bar-room rock, including mandolin, harpsichord, strings and horns. SingerCraig Finn defined Stay Positive as an album, musically and lyrically, about the attempt to age gracefully. The band's gift for literate, anthemic songwriting finds a new focus Finn calls more musical, more dynamic, different instrumentation, more complex arrangements and not always hiding behind raw volume.
Tracklist
A1 Constructive Summer
A2 Sequestered In Memphis
A3 One For The Cutters
B1 Navy Sheets
B2 Lord, I’m Discouraged
B3 Yeah Sapphire
C1 Both Crosses
C2 Stay Positive
C3 Magazines
D1 Joke About Jamaica
D2 Slapped Actress
D3 Ask Her For Adderall
E1 Two Handed Handshake
E2 Cheyenne Sunrise
E3 Spectres
F1 40 Bucks
F2 This Isn’t Enough
F3 You Tremble
F4 Ballad Of The Midnight Hauler
Label: Vagrant Records – 538442050
Format: 3 × Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM, Album, Deluxe Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Brown
Country: US
Released: 07 Dec 2018