''She Haunts My Dreams'' is the second album by the American band

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, released in 1999. The band was signed to

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shortly before the album's release, although

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held Spain to its contract.

Production

The album's songs were written by

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. They are about romance and relationships.

Joey Waronker Jon Joseph Waronker (born May 20, 1969) is an American drummer and music producer. He is best known as a regular drummer of both Beck and R.E.M., and as member of the experimental rock bands Atoms for Peace and Ultraísta. Background Waronker w ...

played drums on the album; the piano parts were played by session musicians.

Critical reception

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'' called the album "a gorgeous meditation on romantic dysfunction." ''

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'' praised the "muted-jazz/Leonard Cohen-knew-my-mother backing." ''

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'' concluded that "''She Haunts My Dreams'' will be at the top of the list for a bunch of heartbroken losers come the end of the year." ''

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'' wrote: "Stark, elegant and pervasively melancholic, Spain's lo-fi acoustic rumblings are purpose built for Haden's tales of woe." The ''

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'' noted that, "although plainly influenced by the Velvet Underground, Mazzy Star and the Tindersticks, the trio touches a hard-to-reach nerve with its wistful delivery and melancholic mood."

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deemed the album "dreamy, lounge-tinged pop." '' (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide'' considered ''She Haunts My Dreams'' to be "artfully arranged mopiness." ''

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'' listed it among the 10 best albums of 1999; ''

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'' considered it to be one of the "9 Best Albums of '99 That Fell through the Cracks".

Track listing

References

{{reflist 1999 albums Restless Records albums