This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now Explained

This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now
Type:	studio
Artist:	Knapsack
Cover:	This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now.jpg
Released:	September 8, 1998
Recorded:	Hyde Street Studios, San Francisco, CA
Genre:	Indie rock, emo
Length:	36:07
Label:	Alias^[1] Poison City
Prev Title:	Day Three of My New Life
Prev Year:	1997

This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now is the third and final studio album by the indie rock/emo band Knapsack.^{[2] [3]} It was released on September 8, 1998, on Alias Records, and re-released in 2014 by Poison City Records. The album title comes from lyrics for the song "Skip The Details."

Critical reception

The Morning Call called the album "full of clever, hook-laden and emotional tunes."^[2] Spin, in an article about undeservedly obscure bands, wrote that This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now is "a minor classic of twentysomething despair."^[4] The A.V. Club thought that the album lacked the "desperate declarations" of Day Three of My New Life.^[5]

Track listing

1. "Katherine the Grateful" - 3:17
2. "Change Is All the Rage" - 3:27
3. "Shape of the Fear" - 4:25
4. "Cold Enough to Break" - 3:20
5. "Skip the Details" - 2:53
6. "Arrows to the Action" - 3:28
7. "Cinema Stare" - 3:04
8. "Hummingbirds" - 4:42
9. "Balancing Act" - 3:40
10. "Please Shut Off the Lights" - 3:51

Notes and References

1. Web site: Knapsack. Alias Records.
2. Web site: INDIE BAND KNAPSACK EXTENDING THE 'CONVERSATION' WITH TOUR. Ed. Condran. mcall.com. 25 September 1998 .
3. Web site: 2013: The Year of the Emo Reunion | The Village Voice. www.villagevoice.com. 15 November 2013 .
4. Web site: Unsung. SPIN. SPIN Media. LLC. August 12, 2009. SPIN Media LLC. Google Books.
5. Web site: Knapsack's Day Three Of My New Life both defined and destroyed it. The A.V. Club. 22 October 2013 .