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Shoegaze * Indie * Post-Rock * Grunge * Dream Pop * Psych-Rock * Ethereal

ARTIST..: The Curtain Society
ALBUM...: Inertia

GENRE...: Indie
STYLE...: Indie Rock, Shoegaze

YEAR....: 1995
LABEL...: Bedazzled

COUNTRY.: USA
PLACE...: Southbridge, MA

ENCODER.: LAME 3.100 -V0
BITRATE.: 279 kbps avg
QUALITY.: 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo

SOURCE..: CD
TRACKS..: 10
SIZE....: 88.71 MB

URL..: http://curtainsociety.com
http://www.facebook.com/thecurtainsociety
http://www.gweep.net/gima/tcs/tcs.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curtain_Society

- TRACKLIST

1   Kissherface                             5:02
2   Holland                                 4:05
3   You Never                               4:23
4   Ferris Wheel                            5:54
5   Swing                                   1:12
6   Plaster                                 3:53
7   September Scar Two                      3:28
8   Kissherface (Inert Mix)                 6:56
9   All Over You (The Blue Mix)             4:51
10  No Answer                               4:33

Total Playtime: 44:17

http://www.discogs.com/The-Curtain-Society-Inertia/release/749243
Track 9 originally released on the "Chelsea" 7inch vinyl
Track 10 originally released on the "Where Are You?" cassette

The Curtain Society is an American band which formed in Southbridge,
Massachusetts in 1988, and consists of singer/guitarist Roger Lavallee, Ron
Mominee and Duncan Arsenault. Their stylistic influences include pop,
shoegazing, Dream pop and alternative rock & roll.

Their first releases were a series of EPs and cassettes through Apostrophe
Records, a label directed by Lavallee. In 1993 the band signed with
Washington, DC based label Bedazzled Records. Their first release with
Bedazzled was the limited-edition 7" record "Chelsea", backed with "All Over
You". Inertia, the band's first full-length record, appeared in 1995.

By covering the Chameleons' "Swamp Thing" at a New York show prior to the
release of Inertia, Southbridge, MA's the Curtain Society made obvious what
this debut LP suggests: here's a band with fine taste in early/mid '80s
effects-laden, big-hearted rock, with emotional flourishes, pumping bass,
majestic guitar, and brave drumming. Perhaps guitarist Roger Lavallee's
vocals are more plaintive than such antecedents -- his gentle, boyish cooing
is more in line with the Sarah label bands, For Against, and the Pale Saints
-- but this kind of ambitious, non-pretentious, power-packed scope and
billowing sound was damn welcome in '90s America; i.e., Inertia takes pride
in going against the gratuitous grunge grain.

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