Spokane

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If There is Hope, It Lies in the Proles 04:09 Tools
Temper 04:10 Tools
Minor Careers 00:00 Tools
Singing 00:00 Tools
Thankless Marriage 00:00 Tools
The Absentee 00:00 Tools
Able Bodies 00:00 Tools
Proud Graduates 00:00 Tools
New Days Close 00:00 Tools
Building 00:00 Tools
Middle School 00:00 Tools
Addition 04:32 Tools
Addendum 00:00 Tools
Protocol 06:11 Tools
Leisure 00:00 Tools
These Things 02:35 Tools
American Television 05:10 Tools
Leases & Promises 03:34 Tools
Tell me 04:04 Tools
Automaton 03:26 Tools
Temporary Things 05:43 Tools
Plotted Courses 02:49 Tools
Settling 05:51 Tools
Other Rooms 04:55 Tools
Quiet Normal Life 00:00 Tools
Grown 00:00 Tools
Dark Eyes 03:48 Tools
Cities 04:33 Tools
The Workweek 06:07 Tools
An Ideal History 02:30 Tools
Caution 05:16 Tools
By the Bend 02:49 Tools
Barge 04:28 Tools
On the Stair 00:00 Tools
In Houses 00:00 Tools
Abelard and Heloise 00:00 Tools
Disappointed Athlete 04:56 Tools
Ill From Asking 03:54 Tools
The Made Bed 00:00 Tools
The Making of Americans 03:47 Tools
Victory 02:53 Tools
Spokane - Temper 02:53 Tools
Good Fortune 03:17 Tools
Disapointed Athlete 03:34 Tools
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything 03:37 Tools
The Caution I've Avoided 04:21 Tools
Behind the School 04:18 Tools
I'll From Asking 03:34 Tools
The Lean Year 03:34 Tools
A small commotion 03:30 Tools
Fucked Up in Glasgow 00:00 Tools
If There Is Hope, It Lies In T 04:07 Tools
A Constant Sound 05:14 Tools
spokane_the_absentee 04:07 Tools
Leases Promises 03:35 Tools
03 on the stair 08:16 Tools
Abelard Heloise 03:26 Tools
06 able bodies 02:09 Tools
05 in houses 03:26 Tools
Absentee 03:26 Tools
07 the made bed 03:26 Tools
07 - The Made Bed 03:26 Tools
01 - New Days Close 03:26 Tools
02 - Quiet Normal Life 03:26 Tools
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Spokane was a slowcore band formed by singer-songwriter Rick Alverson in Richmond, Virginia, after the dissolution of his previous 10-member project Drunk. He founded the outfit in 1999 '..with the intention of exploring that small, quiet, sometimes disturbing (and most often ignored) space in life between events and behind the glare of the overly mentionable, and as a vehicle to stand (however quietly) in objection to the West's cultural addiction to the fast, loud and ostentatious'. He released Leisure & Other Songs the following year, a deliberately vacant document of the American experience. Soon thereafter, Courtney Bowles joined as drummer and vocalist, and, along with violinist Karl Runge, the band released its sophomore album The Proud Graduates, which firmly established them as "minimalist leaning, devastatingly subtle craftsmen of the quiet pop form, mixing delicate melodies with a strange, conflicted emotion." Its title track contained the memorable phrase "you combed your hair/ just like your father told you to/ but your room just isn't the same" representational of the longing present on much of the record, along with the barely veiled critiques of Western escapism. The band then quickly recorded and released a Spanish EP entitled Close Quarters. They toured the US and Europe and upon return in 2002 immediately set about producing their 3rd full length release Able Bodies. On returning home from the initial recording session in Bloomington, Indiana, the three suffered a serious interstate car crash and, though they fortunately escaped unharmed, the event proved a turning point in the bands career. Karl Runge moved to Chicago and Courtney and Rick welcomed friend and LaBradford alumni Robert Donne to the fold on bass. The three all shared a distaste for the American political establishment and animal byproducts. Their next record Measurement (coined so as to analogously reflect the accidental profession of "carpenter" that fell upon both Robert and Rick), featured the patient, imperialist-critical, "Protocol" and sent the band once again to Europe to tour where they were welcomed by receptive, quiet crowds. But the tour proved financially difficult and the group returned to Richmond for a rest. After a four year hiatus, in the spring of 2006, the band undertook the building of a replica nineteenth-century federal home, designed by Rick to the specs of a gutted historic house down the road. The building was a difficult, conflicted process, haunted by the idea of perfection and questions of what separates us from what we disdain, during which their 5th full-length album Little Hours was written and recorded. Released in 2007, it serves as an aural parallel to that year and event. (bio from www.jagjaguwar.com) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.