The Charm of the Highway Strip

Q: 4 Stars - Excellent - "...both lovely and tackily artificial, dream-like and faintly repellent and as fascinating as anything coming out of America right now..."

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CD Details

Released: April 18, 1994
Originally Released: 2018
Label: Merge Records

Entertainment Reviews:

Spin - 12/94, p.78

Ranked #18 in Spin's list of the '20 Best Albums Of '94' - "...Metapop of an austere lushness...with a slightly robotic singer, road-themed titles...and pop-encyclopedic electronic backings that swell when they hit your memory..."

Q - 10/95, p.123

4 Stars - Excellent - "...both lovely and tackily artificial, dream-like and faintly repellent and as fascinating as anything coming out of America right now..."

Option - 8/94, p.110

"...this fairly focused concept album is like an aural Wim Wenders movie..."
Village Voice (2/28/95) - Ranked #29 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.

NME (Magazine) - 9/16/95, p.50

7 (out of 10) - "...Merritt sings lonesome country songs in his lugubrious baritone over charming, tinkly keyboards....a collection of road songs for people whose lives are too fastidiously ordered for them ever to leave their apartments..."
Pitchfork (Website) - "[A]n idiosyncratic, lo-fi travelogue bursting with gothic wit and pathos."

Tracks:

1.Lonely Highway
2.Long Vermont Roads
3.Born on a Train
4.I Have the Moon
5.Two Characters in Search of a Country Song
6.Crowd of Drifters
7.Fear of Trains
8.When the Open Road Is Closing In
9.Sunset City
10.Dust Bowl