Homesick and Happy to Be Here
Studio album by
Aberdeen
Released2002
Recorded2001
GenreTwee pop
Length44:43
LabelBetter Looking[1]
ProducerAberdeen with David Newton
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Pitchfork Media7.0/10[3]

Homesick and Happy to Be Here is an album by the Los Angeles pop band Aberdeen, released in 2002.[4][5]

Critical reception

CMJ New Music Report deemed Homesick and Happy to Be Here "a gentle collection of guitar pop with elegant vocals."[1] The Los Angeles Times wrote that "the album is a charming combination of strummy bedroom pop, fuzzy and smoldering guitars, and girl-boy vocals highlighted by [Beth] Arzy's plaintive entreaties."[6]

AllMusic called the album "a roomy, positively beaming sort of record of diamond-sharp mid-tempo indie pop, a uniquely delayed first attempt that runs somewhere between Jeepster earnestness and the flagrant sparkle of the Trash Can Sinatras' Cake."[2]

Track listing

  1. 'Handsome Drink' (3:16)
  2. 'Sink or Float' (3:27)
  3. 'Clouds Like These' (3:51)
  4. 'Sunny in California' (3:50)
  5. 'Thousand Steps' (5:22)
  6. 'Homesick' (5:21)
  7. 'Cities & Buses' (4:33)
  8. 'Drive' (4:15)
  9. 'In My Sleep' (4:50)
  10. 'That Cave... That Moon' (5:52)

References

  1. 1 2 Santangelo, Antonia (Jun 24, 2002). "The Week's Best New Music". CMJ New Music Report. 72 (1): 5.
  2. 1 2 "Homesick and Happy to Be Here - Aberdeen | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  3. ↑ "Aberdeen: Homesick and Happy to Be Here". Pitchfork.
  4. ↑ "Aberdeen Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  5. ↑ Vergara, Andre (November 24, 2002). "Alternative sounds for the holidays". The Press-Enterprise. p. F8.
  6. ↑ Bronson, Kevin (16 June 2002). "They Made Their Peace--and an Album Too". Los Angeles Times. p. F63.
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