Album
Down Colorful Hill
1992 · Rock
7 collectors on Gatefold own this
Down Colorful Hill is an Alt/Indie album by Red House Painters, originally released in 1992. On Gatefold: 19 pressings tracked, owned by 7 collectors.
About
Not a proper debut as such, Down Colorful Hill instead comprises the demo recordings which won Red House Painters their contract with the 4AD label, released here with minimal overdubbing. Regardless, the group has already reached full maturity; these lengthy, ponderous songs are remarkably evocative portraits of a distinctly tortured psyche -- Mark Kozelek forgoes the camouflage of metaphor to lay his soul on the line, and the honesty of his craft is both beautiful and disturbing.
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Tracklist
- 1246:47
- 2Medicine Bottle9:49
- 3Down Colorful Hill10:51
- 4Japanese To English4:41
- 5Lord Kill the Pain6:03
- 6Michael5:23
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Indie Rock
- sparse
- melancholic
- confessional
Red House Painters' first album comprises six tracks from a 16-track, 90 minute 1991 demo tape. A copy of the tape had been passed to Ivo Watts-Russell (and Rough Trade's Geoff Travis) by. Aston in turn had received his tape during an interview with American Music Club's Mark Eitzel whose gigs the Red House Painters had been supporting throughout the bay area. Ivo selected the demo tracks he reckoned being the strongest and released them as a debut mini-album, titled after its longest track.
Further tracks from the demo were re-recorded and released on subsequent albums, Red House Painters ("Rollercoaster") and Red House Painters ("Bridge") released in 1993.
Credits
The people behind it.
Production & Engineering
- Mark KozelekWRITTEN-BY, PRODUCER
7 collectors on Gatefold own this · 19 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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