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My Dark Places (album)

My Dark Places is a 2006 album by the English Post-punk band the Television Personalities. It was the band's first recording in 11 years, following 1998's Don't Cry Baby, It's Only a Movie.

Reception

The critic Douglas Wolke described My Dark Places as "the band's saddest, most chaotic album. Much of it was improvised in the studio; at times, it recalls Mr. Barrett's edge-of-madness songs. Mr. Treacy's wobbly, desperate vocals suggest that he's on the verge of collapsing into sobs. In fact, he said, he did break down a few times during the recording, overwhelmed by making music for the first time in 11 years. "It's the way I like to work," he added. "I like to hurt when I'm working.""

In their review, Rolling Stone wrote that "this influential Brit duo put together a low-fi collage of electronic gurgles and folky patter, with [the vocalist] spluttering stream-of-consciousness poetry in his snaggletoothed cockney croon."

Track listing

All tracks composed by Daniel Treacy

  1. "Special Chair" – 3:03
  2. "All the Young Children on Crack" – 3:13
  3. "Sick Again" – 2:15
  4. "Ex-Girlfriend Club" – 4:18
  5. "Dream the Sweetest Dreams" – 2:48
  6. "Velvet Underground" – 3:21
  7. "My Dark Places" – 3:00
  8. "I'm Not Your Typical Boy" – 3:51
  9. "You Kept Me Waiting Too Long" – 4:27
  10. "They'll Have to Catch Us First" – 2:14
  11. "She Can' Stop Traffic" – 3:43
  12. "Tell Me About Your Day" – 3:00
  13. "Then a Big Boy Came and Knocked It All Down" – 4:57
  14. "I Hope You're Happy Now" – 2:31
  15. "No More I Hate You's" – 2:47
  16. "There's No Beautiful Way to Say Goodbye" – 3:47

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