| Buildings and Grounds | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Papas Fritas |
| Cover: | BuildingsandGrounds_PapasFritas_AlbumCover.jpg |
| Released: | March 7, 2000 |
| Recorded: | The Columnated Ruins, Gloucester, MA The Backporch, Somerville, MA and The Krackhaus |
| Genre: | Indie rock, pop music |
| Length: | 48:20 |
| Label: | Minty Fresh |
| Producer: | Papas Fritas |
| Prev Title: | Helioself |
| Prev Year: | 1997 |
| Next Title: | Pop Has Freed Us |
| Next Year: | 2003 |
Buildings and Grounds is the third studio album by Papas Fritas, released on Minty Fresh in 2000.[1] [2] In Australia it was distributed by local label Half a Cow, their first release of a non-Aussie album since Bettie Serveert's Palomine five years earlier.[3] It was the band's final studio album.[4]
The Austin Chronicle wrote that "the arrangements are particularly grin-inducing, with their headphone-ready little tweaks and snippets of synthesized smarts and fleshy string flourishes."[5] The Washington Post wrote that the band "doesn't overstate or over-embellish its material, relying on direct arrangements, bright tunes and the boy-girl vocal contrast between the band's two singers."[6]
Recorded at the Columnated Ruins (Gloucester, Mass.) and the Backporch and the Krackhaus (Somerville, Massachusetts). Engineered and mixed by Paul Sanni. Analog consultation by Paul Q. Kolderie. Mastered by Roger Siebel at SAE (Phoenix, Arizona).