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band The Slip. It was released November 7, 2006 on

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. It was produced by The Slip and Matthew Ellard (who has also produced for

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and

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) and engineered by Drew Malamud (Stars,

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). It represented a drastic departure for the

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band, going from their previous jazz-fused to sound to a more streamlined, indie rock sound. The album features contributions from

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singer Ua, as well as Chris Seligman from the

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. The song " Even Rats" was featured in the

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''. Live versions of "Children of December" and "If One of Us Should Fall" were previously released on '' Live at Lupo's 6/12/04'', and another live version of the latter was on '' Alivelectric''. "Children of December" and "Even Rats" were released for the

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video game series through the

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on March 4, 2010.

Track listing

#"Children of December" – 4:49 #"Even Rats" – 5:33 #"If One of Us Should Fall" – 5:26 #"Airplane/Primitive" – 6:55 #"Suffocation Keep" – 5:21 #"First Panda in Space" – 2:20 #"The Soft Machine" – 4:21 #"Life in Disguise" – 3:45 #"Mothwing Bite" – 3:29 #"The Original Blue Air" – 2:24 #"Paper Birds" – 8:19

Japanese bonus tracks

"Airplane/Primitive (feat. UA)" #"Airplane/Primitive (feat. UA)" *Radio Edit #"Lonely Boy"

Credits

The Slip

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– drums *

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– vocals, guitar *

Marc Friedman Marc Friedman (born June 18, 1977 in Ohio) is an American electric bassist/multi-instrumentalist and composer. Marc tours internationally and has recorded seven full-length albums with Boston-based avante-rock power trio The Slip. Marc is a co-ar ...

– bass

Additional musicians

*Gabri Athayde – Cello *Grayson Farmer – Flugelhorn *Nellie Fleischner – Vocals *Rosie Kirincic – Vocals *Chris Seligman – French Horn *Isaac Taylor – Vocals

Technical personnel

*Matthew Ellard – Producer, Engineer, Mixing *John Frattalone – Management *Drew Malamud – Engineer, Mixing *Mister Thecake – Design, Layout Design *Perry Serpa – Publicity *The Slip – Producers *Kristen Smith – Assistant *Matt Tahaney – Assistant *Andy VanDette – Mastering

References

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