Album Info

Heretic Pride (Bonus Track Version)

Alternative - 2008

Turning away from the self-analysis of his last few releases, musician and lyricist extraordinaire John Darnielle returns to telling other... more

Tracklist

1

Sax Rohmer #1

3:42 min
2

San Bernardino

3:21 min
3

Heretic Pride

3:44 min
4

Autoclave

3:36 min
5

New Zion

2:56 min
6

So Desperate

3:23 min
7

In the Craters On the Moon

3:33 min
8

Lovecraft In Brooklyn

3:51 min
9

Tianchi Lake

3:22 min
10

How to Embrace a Swamp Creature

3:29 min
11

Marduk T-Shirt Men’s Room Incident

3:23 min
12

Sept 15 1983

3:45 min
13

Michael Myers Resplendent

2:53 min
14

Toolshed (Bonus Track)

2:18 min

About Heretic Pride (Bonus Track Version)

Turning away from the self-analysis of his last few releases, musician and lyricist extraordinaire John Darnielle returns to telling other people’s stories here, shading them in a wide range of aural tonalities. The heartbreaking story of new parents in “San Bernardino” is told over unadorned, willowy cello parts and gently plucked strings, but “Lovecraft in Brooklyn,” about the famed writer’s xenophobia, seethes with emotional confusion while guitars zig and zag like a garage band trying to find its sound. Bonus track “Toolshed” may be a first-person story, one in the flow of confessionals released by Darnielle after his stepfather died. Either way, it’s bitterly heartwrenching. Collaborating once again with Peter Hughes and Franklin Bruno of Nothing Painted Blue, Jon Wurster of Superchunk, cellist Erik Friedlander, and producers John Vanderslice and Scott Solter, Darnielle has found a sound that retains the charm of his earlier, more primitive works, while allowing him to take advantage of the 4AD aesthetic that makes everything from the album packaging to the music inside shiny and beautiful.