- lo-fi, rock
- 38 min
- 15 tracks
- Fading Captain Series
Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department is a collaboration album between American indie rock musicians Robert Pollard and Doug Gillard released in 1999. For the album, Gillard recorded instrumental tracks for songs Pollard had written, to which Pollard later added vocals.
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Classical in form, spare, intimate and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
- rawmeticulous
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Tracks
- 1Frequent Weaver Who Burns2:50
- 2Soul Train College Policeman1:39
- 3Pop Zeus2:28
- 4Slick as Snails4:20
- 5Do Something Real2:55
- 6Port Authority4:05
- 7Soft Smoke0:50
- 8Same Things1:19
- 9And I Don’t (So Now I Do)2:10
- 10Tight Globes3:08
- 11I Get Rid of You2:51
- 12Life Is Beautiful2:28
- 13Messiahs2:25
- 14Larger Massachusetts2:53
- 15And My Unit Moves1:42
15 tracks, 38 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Robert Pollard, Doug Gillard
- Label
- Fading Captain Series
- Released
- December 14, 1999
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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