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The Eagle & the Poodle

Mecca Normal

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1 Breathing In the Dark Mecca Normal 3:16 $0.99 View In iTunes
2 Her Ambition Mecca Normal 3:02 $0.99 View In iTunes
3 The Revival of Cruelty Mecca Normal 2:31 $0.99 View In iTunes
4 Rigid Man In an Ice Age Mecca Normal 2:29 $0.99 View In iTunes
5 When You Build a House Without Doors Mecca Normal 5:10 $0.99 View In iTunes
6 Prize Arm Mecca Normal 1:38 $0.99 View In iTunes
7 Mrs McGillvary Mecca Normal 3:47 $0.99 View In iTunes
8 Now That You're Here Mecca Normal 2:06 $0.99 View In iTunes
9 Kingdom Without Weather Mecca Normal 3:33 $0.99 View In iTunes
10 Cave In Mecca Normal 2:57 $0.99 View In iTunes
11 Drive At Mecca Normal 3:11 $0.99 View In iTunes
12 Peach-a-vanilla Mecca Normal 1:49 $0.99 View In iTunes
13 When You Know Mecca Normal 5:42 $0.99 View In iTunes

Album Review

Following the exceptional Sitting on Snaps album, Mecca Normal delivered an album more notably experimental, heading in the direction of their concurrent side project, 2 Foot Flame. The Canadian post-punk duo refined such a distinctive aesthetic over the course of some ten albums, and with the curiously titled The Eagle & the Poodle they break from their charging minimalist sound and adopt a more angular, improvisational approach. The closing track, "When You Know," is one of Jean Smith's more poetic career highlights and David Lester exhibits some of his finest abstract guitar playing on "Breathing in the Dark," "Cave In," and "When You Build a House Without Doors."

Biography

Formed: 1981 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Cana

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s

A seminal influence on Northwestern indie rock (and especially on the riot grrl movement), Vancouver's Mecca Normal was the bridge between female post-punk primitives like the Raincoats and the Slits — not to mention Patti Smith's punk poetry — and the more explicitly political, feminist...
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