Learning By Musical Montage
20th Anniversary Remix/Remaster
“We started Morningbell in the worst era of popular music ever. It was all boy bands, and vapid divas, and whiny dirge rock, and soulless hip-hop. This was music made by business people. We didn’t believe them. The hardest thing for a young band is to create an identity, and we struggled to make ours. For a while, we went backwards and played ’60s style rock. Then these little bands began to break through, like the Shins, of Montreal, Death Cab for Cutie, and a new genre called indie rock poked out its head, and we saw a way to go forward, to rebel against the mainstream on our terms. Indie made a virtue of being unpolished. The more unknown you were, the more homemade, the better. It proved you really meant it. We were anti-professional. That’s how this album came to be.
After this album, we became a completely different band, sometimes unrecognizable from the one that made these nine songs. But we always felt partial to it, to the time of our life when we made it, and to the friends we found to support us, who gave it so much more meaning than we could have imagined.”
—From the liner notes
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Listen on Apple Music
20th Anniversary Remix/Remaster
“We started Morningbell in the worst era of popular music ever. It was all boy bands, and vapid divas, and whiny dirge rock, and soulless hip-hop. This was music made by business people. We didn’t believe them. The hardest thing for a young band is to create an identity, and we struggled to make ours. For a while, we went backwards and played ’60s style rock. Then these little bands began to break through, like the Shins, of Montreal, Death Cab for Cutie, and a new genre called indie rock poked out its head, and we saw a way to go forward, to rebel against the mainstream on our terms. Indie made a virtue of being unpolished. The more unknown you were, the more homemade, the better. It proved you really meant it. We were anti-professional. That’s how this album came to be.
After this album, we became a completely different band, sometimes unrecognizable from the one that made these nine songs. But we always felt partial to it, to the time of our life when we made it, and to the friends we found to support us, who gave it so much more meaning than we could have imagined.”
—From the liner notes
Listen on Spotify
Listen on Apple Music
20th Anniversary Remix/Remaster
“We started Morningbell in the worst era of popular music ever. It was all boy bands, and vapid divas, and whiny dirge rock, and soulless hip-hop. This was music made by business people. We didn’t believe them. The hardest thing for a young band is to create an identity, and we struggled to make ours. For a while, we went backwards and played ’60s style rock. Then these little bands began to break through, like the Shins, of Montreal, Death Cab for Cutie, and a new genre called indie rock poked out its head, and we saw a way to go forward, to rebel against the mainstream on our terms. Indie made a virtue of being unpolished. The more unknown you were, the more homemade, the better. It proved you really meant it. We were anti-professional. That’s how this album came to be.
After this album, we became a completely different band, sometimes unrecognizable from the one that made these nine songs. But we always felt partial to it, to the time of our life when we made it, and to the friends we found to support us, who gave it so much more meaning than we could have imagined.”
—From the liner notes