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'' A Brilliant Mistake '' is a full-length
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by American
alternative rock Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from Popular culture, mainstre ...
band
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, released in 1997. It was the band's last album.


Production

The album was recorded in Chicago. Members of
The Sea and Cake The Sea and Cake is an American indie rock band with a jazz influence, based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The group formed in the mid-1990s from members of The Coctails (Archer Prewitt), Shrimp Boat (Sam Prekop and Eric Claridge), an ...
,
the Coctails The Coctails were a musical group from Chicago, who formed while its members were attending the Kansas City Art Institute. The band was active from about 1988 to 1995, with reunions in 2000 as the last band to play on stage at Lounge Ax before th ...
, and the Pulsars contributed instrumentation to the album.


Critical reception

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'' wrote that "Tsunami still doesn't compose outgoing melodies, but the band's control of mood and texture has become formidable." ''
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'' called the album "heady and beautiful," and praised Jenny Toomey's "rich, liquid voice." ''
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'' called the album the band's best, writing that "the instrumentation on ''A Brilliant Mistake'' is a remarkable achievement—an absorption of some of the prettier sounds of the 'post-rock' movement while retaining a fundamentally aggro-punk edge." ''
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'' wrote that "Tsunami hasn't forgotten how to write challenging pop songs, and Toomey's voice remains one of indie rock's most beautiful instruments."


Track listing

# "Old Grey Mare" # "Great Mimes" # "Double Shift" # "Enter Misguided" # "The Workers Are Punished" # "Liar's Dice (Flight of the Chickens)" # "The Match" # "Poodle" # "Unbridled" # "DMFH" # "David Foster Wallace" # "Hockey" # "PBS"


References

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