Strand | ||||
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Released | February 27, 1996 | |||
Recorded | 1996 | |||
Genre | Indie rock | |||
Length | 53:25 | |||
Label | Sub Pop | |||
Producer | Spinanes[1] | |||
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MusicHound Rock | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Spin | 6/10[5] |
Strand is the second studio album by the American indie rock band The Spinanes, released in 1996 by Sub Pop.[6][7]
The album was recorded in Memphis, Tennessee.[4] Elliott Smith sings on two tracks.[8]
Strand was released on February 27, 1996, by Sub Pop.[9] To promote the album, the band performed with two additional musicians at Lounge Ax in Chicago, Illinois, on March 26, 1996.[10]
AllMusic praised the album's variety of instruments and the addition of guest vocalists.[2] The Washington Post wrote: "With Rebecca Gates adding piano, organ and mellotron to her guitar, such hushed, atmospheric tracks as 'Madding' and 'Luminous' live up to their Cocteau Twinnish titles."[11] Magnet wrote that the album "transcended [the band's] ragged Northwest-indie roots and gave Gates’ smart songwriting a dreamy, atmospheric sheen."[8] Trouser Press wrote that "the album exists on another plane, a dreamstate rooted in studio experimentation not live practicality."[12]