''Twice Born Men'' is an album by English

experimental rock Experimental rock, also called avant-rock, is a subgenre of rock music that pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre. Artists aim to liberate and innovate, with ...

band

Sweet Billy Pilgrim Sweet Billy Pilgrim are an English genre spanning band, composed of bassist/banjo player Anthony Bishop, guitarist and singer Jana Carpenter, guitarist and singer Tim Elsenburg, and drummer/percussionist Alistair Hamer. Often described as rock ...

. It was shortlisted for the 2009

Mercury Prize The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album released in the United Kingdom by a British or Irish act. It was created by Jon Webster and Robert Chandler in association with the ...

, and the

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named it one of their top 100 albums of 2009.

Track listing

# "Here It Begins" (2:36) # "Truth Only Smiles" (5:05) # "Bloodless Coup" (5:43) # "Longshore Drift" (5:01) # "Kalypso" (6:30) # "Future Perfect Tense" (4:31) # "Joy Maker Machinery" (6:55) # "There Will It End" (4:40)

Personnel

*Anthony Bishop - banjo, bass *Tim Elsenburg - singing, guitar, producer, mixing *Alistair Hamer - sequencing, drums *

David Sylvian David Sylvian (born David Alan Batt, 23 February 1958) is an English musician, singer and songwriter who came to prominence in the late 1970s as frontman and principal songwriter of the band Japan. The band's androgynous look and increasingly ...

- artwork rt Direction*Chris Bigg - artwork esign*

Tacita Dean Tacita Charlotte Dean CBE, RA (born 1965) is a British / German visual artist who works primarily in film. She was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998, won the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006, and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2008. ...

- artwork rawings*Alphonse Elsenburg - clarinet (track 2, 8)

References

2009 albums Sweet Billy Pilgrim albums Samadhi Sound albums {{2000s-alt-rock-album-stub