Red Red Meat - There's a Star Above the Manger Tonight

Release Date:11/11/2014;Notes:Limited double vinyl LP pressing includes digital download with five bonus tracks. With it's final album, Chicago quartet Red Red Meat completed a journey started in the early '90s, concluding a study in evolution, moving from it's shambolic blues rock roots into an experimental combo. THERE'S a STAR ABOVE THE MANGER TONIGHT is the sound of a band blooming even as it folds in - finding Tim Rutili (Califone), Brian Deck (Modest Mouse/Iron And Wine engineer), Ben Massarella (Califone/Orso), and Tim Hurley incorporating samplers, loops, and computers, marrying disparate threads of hip-hop, Krautrock, and dub to folk forms, stomps and blues.;Track List:1. Sulfur;2. There's a Star Above the Manger Tonight;3. Chinese Balls;4. Second Hand Sea;5. All Tied;6. Paul Pachel;7. Bury Me;8. Airstream Driver;9. Mechanix (From Cold Milk);10. Quarter Horses (B-Slow);11. Just Like An Egg on Stilts;12. Pachel Revisited;13. Welcome Christmas;14. Tin Hands Lazy Motors;15. Milk for the Mechanics;16. Snow Shoe Waltz;17. Steal Away