Sebadoh Bubble & Scrape

Entertainment Weekly: "...[Lou Barlow's] anguish is so palpable you just wanna give the songs a hug. Pass the lithium, but don't pass on a listen..." - Rating: B+
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item number:  9C3G
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CD Details

  • Released: April 23, 1993
  • Originally Released: 1993
  • Label: Sub Pop

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - p.96
4 stars out of 5 -- "BUBBLE & SCRAPE was a last gasp of wild, often disquieting abandon....17 blasts of beautiful bedlam."
Rolling Stone - 9/2/93, p.61
3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...while their sound may be obviously rock--and [BUBBLE AND SCRAPE] is nothin' but--it's still not obvious rock....Sebadoh don't believe in merely recycling their sources. Instead, they reinvent them..."
Spin - 5/93, p.83
Highly Recommended - "...primitive guitar strums glide along slow-throbbing basslines, with icy jams, occasional roars, and frequent moments of space and tranquility filling out the soundscape..."
Entertainment Weekly - 4/16/93, p.55
"...[Lou Barlow's] anguish is so palpable you just wanna give the songs a hug. Pass the lithium, but don't pass on a listen..." - Rating: B+
Q - 7/93, p.100
3 Stars (out of 5) - "...wanders through Dinosaur-styled emotive pleas to discordant punkiness and twee melodies....a fine, very personal collection with a tub full of hooks which you'll find hard to explain the potent beauty of to disapproving musicologists..."
Uncut - p.103
4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t sounds richly classicist, with Lou Barlow's songs the very model of lovelorn orthodoxy..."
CMJ
"Songs like 'Two Years Two Days' and 'Sister' still hold within their destructive heads some tender hooks."
Q (Magazine) - p.157
3 stars out of 5 -- "[Lou Barlow] had begun to write moving songs of love and loss....Bassist Jason Loewenstein started to prove his worth, too, with the melodically astute 'Sixteen'."
NME (Magazine) - 8/12/00, p.28
Ranked #9 in The NME "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums".
NME (Magazine) - 5/1/93, p.34
8 (out of 10) - "...BUBBLE AND SCRAPE is alive with the possibility of love and the mournful conviction that love is doomed...."
Clash (Magazine) (p.116) - "[S]ound collages and elegiac acoustic laments....BUBBLE AND SCRAPE was perhaps their greatest artistic achievement."

Tracks:

  • 1.Soul and Fire
  • 2.Two Years Two Days
  • 3.Telecosmic Alchemy
  • 4.Fantastic Disaster
  • 5.Happily Divided
  • 6.Sister
  • 7.Cliche
  • 8.Sacred Attention
  • 9.Elixir Is Zog
  • 10.Emma Get Wild
  • 11.Sixteen
  • 12.Homemade
  • 13.Forced Love
  • 14.No Way Out
  • 15.Bouquet For a Siren
  • 16.Think (Let Tomorrow Bee)
  • 17.Flood

Product Info

  • UPC: 098787019223
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
  • International Shipping: 1 item

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