The Captain Is Dead, Let the Drum Corpse Dance

by Minus Story

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1.	Won't Be Fooled Again 04:18	buy track
2.	The Happy Activist 03:30	buy track
3.	Gravity Pulls 03:34	buy track
4.	Open Your Eyes 04:51	buy track
5.	You Were On My Side 03:05	buy track
6.	Joyless, Joyless 05:05	buy track
7.	You're My Air 08:08	buy track
8.	The Children's Army (Bite the Tyrant's Tongue) 04:14	buy track

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Minus Story's mystical third full-length, The Captain is Dead, Let The Drum Corpse Dance, is fuzzy and full of sunshine but also full of dark clouds and cold rain and is wistful and billowing, much like the music of The Zombies, Smile-era Beach Boys, Circulatory System and Neutral Milk Hotel. It also embraces those indefinable qualities found on records like Mt. Eerie by Microphones or Fragile by Yes. It is experimental pop, through and through, with all the attendant haunted edges, including a storyline about some young boy who rallies together an army of children, some black cloud that eats birds, and some girl who comes back as a ghost in a marching band. A masterpiece that will creep into your consciousness and lay anchor for some time.

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released April 6, 2004

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Minus Story Lawrence, Kansas

In the distance the land kisses the sky. If you squint just right you can see Minus Story in flux there, somewhere between earthbound and ethereal, making sunspots on the horizon line with their noisy & melodic headphone pop. Reared together in America's Midwestern cradle, Minus Story speak their own codified musical language as only childhood friends can share. ... more

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