Second Story (The Hang Ups album) explained

Second Story
Type:	Album
Artist:	The Hang Ups
Cover:	Second Story (The Hang Ups album).jpg
Released:	1999
Genre:	Indie rock music
Label:	Restless Records
Prev Title:	So We Go
Prev Year:	1996
Next Title:	The Hang Ups
Next Year:	2003

Second Story is an album by The Hang Ups, released in 1999 on Restless Records.^{[1] [2]} The production team of Mitch Easter and Don Dixon hadn't worked together as a dedicated production team since recording R.E.M.'s Murmur and Reckoning more than 15 years before.^{[3] [4]}

Critical reception

AllMusic wrote that the band "can build a whole song out of a lugubrious piano, a folky guitar and an antiquated harpsichord, the beautiful bowing of a sonorous violin, or McCartney-esque ringing pop, and make the whole thing hang together." The Richmond Times-Dispatch wrote that the album "features a host of melodically engaging tunes from unheralded songwriter Brian Tighe."^[5] Washington City Paper wrote that the band "juice their sound with a force they used to only imply, resulting in the most jagged, Brit-poppy music of their career."^[6]

Track listing

1. Caroline – 3:10
2. Second Story – 5:40
3. Pretty BA – 2:59
4. Parkway – 3:25
5. Underneath A Tree – 4:10
6. Out Of Touch – 2:51
7. Long Goodbye – 4:03
8. Blue Sky – 1:32
9. The Queen – 2:42
10. Maroon – 4:39
11. Party – 2:31
12. Epic – 5:16
13. Untitled 0:57

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hang Ups Turn to Old Pros to Fashion a Breakthrough. August 11, 1999. Los Angeles Times.
2. [Billboard (magazine)]
3. [CMJ New Music]
4. New York - Volume 32, Issues 22-28 1999 -- Page 188 "Pickings are a bit more slim for rock fans, but the Missed-out jangle-pop of the HangUps (whose new album, Second Story, was helmed by legendary producers Don Dixon and Mitch Easter, who last teamed up to produce R.E.M.'s Reckoning"
5. Web site: Sonic Boom. Don. Harrison. Richmond Times-Dispatch.
6. Web site: The Hang Ups. May 14, 1999. Washington City Paper.