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Track listing

# "Painless Sleep" - 2:16 # "Dust" - 2:27 # "Time Erased" - 3:37 # "Andrew" - 3:34 # "Vapour Trail" - 2:18 # "Tentacles" - 1:54 # "Until the Sun Dies (Part 1)" - 2:50 # "Memorized" - 3:53 # "Glacier" - 3:01 # "Foot of the Mountain" - 0:25 # "Your Spears" - 2:24 # "Swollen Sky" - 4:12 # "Several Tongues" - 7:11

Personnel

*Jonny Bell: vocals, bass, woodwind *Errol Davis: guitar, organ *Andrew King: guitar *Victor Rodriguez-Guerrero: organ, piano *Damian Edwards: percussion, woodwind *Kevin Stuart: drums *Daniel Hawk: brass on tracks 8 and 9

References

{{Authority control 2009 debut albums Touch and Go Records albums