Tracker Discography of CDs

Tracker songs Ames is made up of self-described "[d]esert highway narratives, folk tales from the front yard, and loose guitar lo-fi for the super-8 movie" and calls itself "headphone core for the analog," and that pretty much covers as well as it can possibly be conveyed the general sound of this shambling, hazy, and entirely captivating oasis of music. The songs are alternately dry as scrub-brush, or woozy as a sleep-deprived hallucination, joyously messy or reflective, and they are full of individual gestures and effects both epic and intimate. More specifically, the album is meant ...

Tracker CD discography If the songs on Ames wandered through a variety of desolate landscapes, Polk is all of a piece. Granted, the second Tracker album does occupy the same general geographical region (not to mention the same shaggily resplendent musical headspace) as its predecessor, a woozily imagined West-of-wherever, as deserted and forbidding a place as it is open to possibilities, just waiting to be road-tested. But it also sketches the passing imagery with a photographic vibrancy at times lacking on the otherwise outstanding Ames, producing an even more enticing and textured album and rendering the ...

Tracker albums Blankets was a left turn for Tracker, and not just because the soundtrack to Craig Thompson's acclaimed illustrated novel of the same name was their first virtually all-instrumental disc. The Portland band's two prior releases included plenty of evocative soundscapes and vocal-free passages, so what really sets Blankets apart is the different emotional tone of the record. Both Ames and Polk featured panoramic vignettes built on dusty narratives and pedal steel accents -- psychotropic road trips through desert badlands with Hunter S. Thompson driving, and Calexico and Deserter's Song-era Mercury Rev on the radio. On both records, a sense of wonder crept into even the most melancholy nooks and crannies. But on Blankets, the music works from the inside-out: Tracker's synth washes, clarion guitar tones, brushed cymbals and keyboard textures capture the isolation and longing of Thompson's wintry coming-of-age tale. Still, the songs have a cocoon-ish warmness that belies titles like "Snow" or "Vanishing Cave," and there are obvious nods to the Fripp & Eno collaborations, as well as songs that pulse with Tortoise-like momentum and vibraphone chimes. There are more dramatic variations, too, such as the horns-spiced "F! Is for Filth!," which captures the main character's clash with his strictly religious parents, and the barely controlled feedback (read: angst) lurking beneath "The House of Jarius." "Marathon" even conjures a jazz vibe during ...

Tracker CD discography Immedia: Brian McCulloch (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Joanna Muncaster (vocals, keyboards), Scott Hale (vocals, bass), Tracker (drums).

Tracker albums Track Listing of songs: Gypsymothcaravan; Nova; Centralia; Make-Out Music for the Emotionally Impaired; Ceiling Fan; Cocerto in Zed Minor for Shoestring Orchestra; Wistful; Lefthanded; Endure; Parisienne; Edinburgh; Close Yet Far; Playground; Teenage Qix; Microhome; Later On; New York City; End of Amnesia;