Marlborough Farms Explained

Marlborough Farms
Type:studio
Artist:The Ladybug Transistor
Cover:Ladybugfarms.jpg
Genre:Indie pop
Label:Feeding Frenzy Records
Next Title:Beverley Atonale
Next Year:1997

Marlborough Farms is the first album by the Brooklyn indie pop band The Ladybug Transistor.[1] It was released on October 4, 1996.

The album was named after vocalist/guitarist Gary Olson's home studio.[2]

Critical reception

Douglas Wolk, in Salon, called the album "a competent Pavement rip-off with some curious touches in its arrangements, like singer Gary Olson's trumpet parts."[3]

Track listing

  1. "Wheel"
  2. "(Theme To) Lout"
  3. "Magic Forest Report"
  4. "Sneedle"
  5. "Seadrift"
  6. "Blaze"
  7. "95 Miles Per Hour"
  8. "Land"
  9. "Twice a Lifetime"
  10. "Song for Vocoder and Trumpet"

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Ladybug Transistor | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  2. Web site: Elephant 6. Music. 16 February 2012 .
  3. Web site: Sharps & Flats. March 31, 1999. Salon.