Mo Beauty
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Mo Beauty | |
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Studio album by | |
Released | October 20, 2009 |
Recorded | 2009, Piety St. Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana |
Genre | Folk, indie rock |
Label | Anti- Records |
Producer | Steve Berlin |
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
American Songwriter | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The A.V. Club | (B) link |
onethirtybpm | (74%) link |
Paste | (81/100) link |
Pitchfork Media | (7.7/10) link |
PopMatters | (5/10) link |
Robert Christgau | ![]() |
Slant Magazine | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Spin | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Stereo Subversion | (6/10) link |
Under the Radar | (6/10) link |
Mo Beauty is the debut album by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah frontman Alec Ounsworth. It was released October 20, 2009, on Anti- Records. In August 2009, Ounsworth released Skin and Bones as Flashy Python.
The title is the name of shop in the Tremé section of New Orleans, a photograph of which is on the album cover.
Track listing
[edit]- "Modern Girl (...With Scissors)"
- "Bones in the Grave"
- "Holy, Holy, Holy Moses (Song for New Orleans)"
- "That Is Not My Home (After Bruegel)"
- "Idiots in the Rain"
- "South Philadelphia (Drug Days)"
- "What Fun."
- "Me and You, Watson"
- "Obscene Queen Bee #2"
- "When You've No Eyes"
- "Dr. So and So" (iTunes only Bonus Track)
- "Big Microscope" (iTunes only Bonus Track)
- "Dim Wit Road" (iTunes only Bonus Track)
Personnel
[edit]- Alec Ounsworth - Vocals, Guitar
- George Porter Jr. - Bass guitar
- Stanton Moore – Drums
- Robert Walter – Keyboards, B3 Organ
- Matt Sutton – Baritone and Pedal Steel Guitars
- Steve Berlin - Producer
- Mark Mullins, Craig Klein, Greg Hicks, Washboard Chaz, Shannon Powell, John Boute, Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, and Meschiya Lake. - Various Instrumentation
References
[edit]- ^ Christgau, Robert. "Mo Beauty". Robert Christgau.