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Track Listing
1. 6 Am
2. Halfway to Midnight
3. Future's Gone
4. Don't Defend
5. My Only Heart
6. These Times Call
7. Your First Crime
8. Hardly Recognize
9. Another Day
10. Buried in My Eyes
11. As Time Crawls By
Album Notes
Blacktop Mourning: Joe Levand (vocals, bass guitar); Max Steger (guitar, strings, piano); Shawn Nystrand (guitar); Nate Wethy (bass guitar); Greg Gerard (drums).
Personnel: Adam Duritz (vocals, piano); Sharon Christel (piano).
Emotion is key on the Chicago band Blacktop Mourning's debut, which was also the first album released on Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz's Tyrannosaurus record label. Duritz, who also produced, guides the band through a vibrant, sophisticated set that highlights the vocal, instrumental, and songwriting talents of its youthful leader, the 18-year-old Max Steger. "Halfway to Midnight" is a punk-like explosion of teen angst kept in check by a subtly shaded arrangement, "Future's Gone" is a brooding meditation on both the end of a relationship and the end of innocence, and "Buried in My Eyes" is a hard-rocking look at an uncertain future.
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