Let's Bottle Bohemia

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Let's Bottle Bohemia
Studio album by
Released13 September 2004
Recorded2003–2004
GenreIndie
Length42:07
LabelVirgin Records
ProducerDave Sardy
The Thrills chronology
So Much for the City
(2003)
Let's Bottle Bohemia
(2004)
Teenager
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Pitchfork Media6.0/10[2]
Rolling Stone[3]

Let's Bottle Bohemia is the second album by the Irish indie/rock band The Thrills. It was produced and mixed by Dave Sardy. The album went platinum in Ireland in 2005,[4] debuting at #1. In the UK, the album debuted at #9 and remained in the charts for 4 weeks.[5]

In an interview in 2004, lead singer Conor Deasy described the band's upcoming second album:

I think [the new album's] great. I'm really excited about it. It's different from the first record. It's a step on, I think. A lot of bands, in the last few years, have released good first albums and haven't really stepped up to the challenge on the second one. [Our new album] doesn't really sound like a record people are making quite now. It's tougher, but it's also quite beautiful as well. It's a nice kind of mixture. It's a little more ambiguous as well.

— Conor Deasy[6]

Track listing[edit]

  1. "Tell Me Something I Don't Know" – 3:56
  2. "Whatever Happened To Corey Haim?" – 3:34
  3. "Faded Beauty Queens" (guest appearance by Peter Buck on mandolin & Van Dyke Parks on accordion) – 3:40
  4. "Saturday Night" – 2:31
  5. "Not for All the Love in the World" – 4:06
  6. "Our Wasted Lives" – 3:46
  7. "You Can't Fool Old Friends with Limousines" – 3:12
  8. "Found My Rosebud" – 4:19
  9. "The Curse of Comfort" (guest appearance by Peter Buck on guitar) – 3:01
  10. "The Irish Keep Gate-crashing" – 3:05 / "A City Of Long Nights" (hidden track) – 7:02 (both songs: Strings arranged and conducted by Van Dyke Parks)

Singles[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Pitchfork Media review Archived 2008-03-08 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Rolling Stone review
  4. ^ Jaclyn Ward (1 October 1962). "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". Irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  5. ^ "The Thrills". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  6. ^ "Interview: Conor Deasy of The Thrills". Livedaily.com. 19 May 2004. Archived from the original on 25 October 2008. Retrieved 25 March 2012.