Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse
| Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse | ||||
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| Released | 17 March 2007 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | 33:35 | |||
| Label | Anticon | |||
| Producer | SJ Esau | |||
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Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse is the first studio album by British indie rock musician SJ Esau. Originally released in 2005, it was re-released on Anticon in 2007.[1][2]
Critical reception
[edit]| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Alarm | favorable[3] |
| AllMusic |    [4] |
| Cokemachineglow | 79%[5] |
| Pitchfork | 4.2/10[6] |
Marisa Brown of AllMusic gave the album 2.5 stars out of 5, commenting that "[SJ] Esau's voice -- part singsongy whine, part breathy croon -- works well as a vessel for the absurdity he's trying to convey, but its contrast to the relatively straightforward, repetitive, even occasionally boring instrumentals behind him can be off-putting."[4] Joe Tangari of Pitchfork gave the album a 4.2 out of 10, writing, "Focused melodies simply don't live here, which makes it hard to keep coming back to even the better arrangements."[6] He added, "[Sam] Wisternoff certainly knows how to handle timbre and tone, but without marrying them to song, he's created an overly uniform record that doesn't stick."[6] Dom Sinacola of Cokemachineglow gave the album a 79% rating, stating, "In fact, everything about Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse is overstated, from the milquetoast politics to the dins of release splitting most of the songs into parts."[5]
Track listing
[edit]All tracks are written by Sam Wisternoff
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "(Untitled)" | 0:32 |
| 2. | "Cat Track (He Has No Balls)" | 3:41 |
| 3. | "The Wrong Order" | 3:35 |
| 4. | "Geography" | 3:39 |
| 5. | "Wears the Control" | 5:24 |
| 6. | "(Untitled)" | 0:06 |
| 7. | "(Untitled)" | 0:06 |
| 8. | "I Got a Bad" | 1:44 |
| 9. | "All Agog" | 3:10 |
| 10. | "Queezy Beliefs" | 4:30 |
| 11. | "Halfway Up the Pathway" | 2:04 |
| 12. | "Lazy Eye" | 5:48 |
| Total length: | 33:35 | |
References
[edit]- ^ "Top Page". Anticon. Archived from the original on 9 April 2007. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ Ducker, Jesse (9 April 2007). "New Anticon Act SJ Esau and his Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse". East Bay Express. Archived from the original on 16 July 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ Grayewski, Kristin (13 March 2007). "SJ Esau: Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse". Alarm. Archived from the original on 18 October 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ a b Brown, Marisa. "Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ a b Sinacola, Dom (6 April 2007). "SJ Esau: Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse". Cokemachineglow. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ a b c Tangari, Joe (2 April 2007). "SJ Esau: Wrong-Faced Cat Feed Collapse". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 3 February 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
External links
[edit]- Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse at Discogs (list of releases)
