Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Rock · 2002 · 11 tracks

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

A deconstructed masterpiece of American rock. Traditional songwriting buried under layers of shortwave radio static, digital glitch, and urban loneliness.

It's the record where they broke the radio to find the music inside.

A fragile, beautiful disintegration where classic songwriting meets the hum of a malfunctioning machine.

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Melancholic+2.2σ

Melancholic saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks

01

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

6:58

02

Kamera

3:30

03

Radio Cure

5:09

04

War on War

3:49

05

Jesus, Etc.

3:52

06

Ashes of American Flags

4:44

07

Heavy Metal Drummer

3:09

08

I’m the Man Who Loves You

3:56

09

Pot Kettle Black

4:00

10

Poor Places

5:18

11

Reservations

7:23

Moments Worth Waiting For

The rhythmic, clicking clockwork percussion that opens track 1, slowly dissolving into a cacophony of bells and piano.

The sudden, jarring transition from the folk-pop sweetness of track 10 into a wall of screeching feedback and shortwave noise.

The way the lush string arrangement on Jesus, Etc. provides a soft landing for lyrics about buildings shaking and sky-scraping.

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