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Young Mountain

The debut, first sold as a self-recorded CD-R.
This Will Destroy You, 2005

Wikipedia gives Rhapsody Street Studios in San Antonio as the place of recording, while other summaries call the record self-recorded and self-produced. All tracks are credited to the band. Jeremy Galindo played guitar, Raymond Brown bass and keyboard, Chris King guitar and the artwork, and Andrew Miller drums, with Jeremy Strom adding violin on tracks five and six. Pitchfork scored it 6.9, Rock Sound 8 out of 10 and named it best album of 2006, the Austin Chronicle gave it 3 of 5, and Punknews 4; Punknews noted that the band considered it an EP. A review of the 2016 reissue, seen as a search summary, singled out "Quiet", "Grandfather Clock" and "Happiness".

Track listing

  1. Quiet4:53
  2. The World Is Our ___7:12
  3. I Believe in Your Victory6:32
  4. Grandfather Clock2:37
  5. Happiness: We're All in It Together8:34
  6. There Are Some Remedies Worse Than the Disease6:18

More from This Will Destroy You

This Will Destroy You (2008), Tunnel Blanket (2011), Another Language (2014), New Others: Part Two (2018), New Others: Part One (2018), Vespertine (2020)

Sources

  1. Young Mountain, Wikipedia
  2. This Will Destroy You: Young Mountain, Punknews (2007-07-27)