Album Info

It's Hard to Find a Friend (Remastered)

Alternative - 1998

Pedro the Lion's debut finds singer/songwriter David Bazan exploring several aesthetics that he would never quite revisit again. The bendy... more

Tracklist

1

Of Up and Coming Monarchs

3:03 min
2

The Longer I Lay Here

3:03 min
3

Big Trucks

2:33 min
4

Suspect Fled the Scene

3:56 min
5

Bad Diary Days

4:02 min
6

The Longest Winter

4:09 min
7

When They Really Get to Know You, They Will Run

2:35 min
8

Of Minor Prophets and Their Prostitute Wives

2:53 min
9

The Bells

4:06 min
10

Secret of the Easy Yoke

6:39 min
11

The Well

3:30 min
12

Promise

2:19 min

About It's Hard to Find a Friend (Remastered)

Pedro the Lion's debut finds singer/songwriter David Bazan exploring several aesthetics that he would never quite revisit again. The bendy chords and gorgeous lilt of "Suspect Fled the Scene" suggests country music with a dash of Pavement, while "Big Trucks" is Bazan’s sideways version of Lemonheads-style jangle rock. But Bazan’s talent for detailed, empathic storytelling was sharp from the very beginning, as on "Bad Diary Days," where he uses the discovery of a girlfriend's ticket stubs as a metaphor for a man’s jealousy problems.