''The Bloody Hand'' is the debut album by

Frog Eyes Frog Eyes are an indie rock band from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada fronted by Carey Mercer. Their 2010 album Paul's Tomb: A Triumph was a longlisted nominee for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize. They have released eight albums and two EPs and ...

, and was released in 2002 on Global Symphonic Records. The album was reissued by

Absolutely Kosher Records Absolutely Kosher Records is an independent California-based record label founded in 1998 in San Francisco by Cory Brown. The label moved to Berkeley in 2002 and then to Emeryville in October 2006 when it partnered with Misra Records. The two la ...

on April 18, 2006 with nine extra tracks.

Track listing

;2002 release # "Sound Travels from the Snow to the Dark" # "The Fox Speaks to His Wife Who is Not Quite Sure" # "Krull Fire Wedding" # "The Mayor Laments the Failures of His Many Townsfolk" # "Our Lordship Has Devised a New Billing System" # "The Horse Used to Wear a Crown" # "The Fruit that Fell From the Tree" # "Silence But for the Gentle Tinkling of the Flowing Creek" # "The Secret Map Has Mistakes" # "The Hardest Night to Sleep in the Swamplands" # "Libertatia's National Lullaby"

Seagull Is On The Rise

The reissue of this album contained the unreleased album by Blue Pine, the band that would evolve into Frog Eyes, called Seagull Is On The Rise. Blue Pine consisted of Carey Mercer, Michael Rak, Eric Nyburg, and Jana Wessel.

Track listing

"(Intermission)" # "Seagulls on the Rise" # "One Considers Sailing On" # "Tyranny of Sight and Tyranny of Seeing" # "Picture Framing" # "Buttercup" # "Drinking: The Song" # "Body Body" # "Lost in a Godless Sea" # "Before They Was Killed in a Car Crash"

References

2002 debut albums Frog Eyes albums {{2000s-indie-rock-album-stub