| Cellar Door | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | John Vanderslice |
| Cover: | Cellar Door cover.jpg |
| Released: | January 20, 2004 |
| Recorded: | 2003 |
| Genre: | Indie rock |
| Length: | 42:02 |
| Label: | Barsuk[1] |
| Producer: | Scott Solter, John Vanderslice |
| Prev Title: | Life and Death of an American Fourtracker |
| Prev Year: | 2002 |
| Next Title: | Pixel Revolt |
| Next Year: | 2005 |
Cellar Door is an album by John Vanderslice, released in 2004.[2] [3] [4] The album contains a few songs based on then-recent films: "Promising Actress" is about Mulholland Drive and "When It Hits My Blood" narrates Requiem For A Dream.
The phrase cellar door is one of the most beautiful phrases in the English language, according to J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Austin Chronicle wrote that the "rogues' gallery of miscreants and misanthropes dart among simple instrumentation (synth, guitar, drums) as Vanderslice channels their tales."[1] Exclaim! noted that "as the content gets darker, the music grows strangely pretty, with delicate guitar, bells and his distinctive big, weird drum sound."[5]
All tracks written by John Vanderslice, except the lyrics for Pale Horse, adapted from Shelley's The Masque of Anarchy.