From Ritual to Romance (album)
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| Live album by The Loud Family | ||||
| Released | September 24, 2002 | |||
| Recorded | October 5, 1996; August 8, 1998 | |||
| Genre | Rock, power pop | |||
| Length | 54:11 | |||
| Label | 125 Records | |||
| Producer | Scott Miller | |||
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From Ritual to Romance is The Loud Family's sixth full-length album. It is a live album released during a six-year hiatus from studio recording, which followed the expiration of the group's recording contract with Alias Records in 2000.
Scott Miller, the band's founder and frontman, signed with independent recording label 125 Records after the expiration of the Loud Family's contract with Alias Records. The album was the fifth release by the then newly formed label, founded in 2001 by Joe Mallon and Sue Trowbridge, who had a long acquaintance with Miller and his bands.
From Ritual to Romance includes live recordings of two performances at different points in the band's history. The first performance, on tracks 1-7 and 14-19, is from a Hotel Utah show on October 5, 1996. Drummer Dawn Richardson had recently left the group, and for the 1996 tour supporting the release of Interbabe Concern, she was replaced by Mike Tittel, currently leader of the Ohio-based band New Sincerity Works.
The second performance, on tracks 8-13 and 20-21, is from a show at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco on August 8, 1998, after the release of the album Days for Days.
The album includes cover versions of "Debaser" by The Pixies, "When You Sleep" by My Bloody Valentine and "Here Come The Warm Jets" by Brian Eno.
The songs "Not Because You Can," "Go Ahead You're Dying To," and "Curse of the Frontier Land" are The Loud Family's versions of songs from Game Theory, Miller's previous band.
The songs listed as "Nine", "Five" and "Eleven" are three of the untitled soundscapes from The Loud Family's 1998 studio album Days for Days. The numbered titles reflect track numbers on Days for Days, in which conventionally titled songs are alternated with untitled tracks that amplify themes of the songs that they follow. On Days for Days, track 9 follows "Way Too Helpful," track 5 follows "Good, There Are No Lions in the Street," and track 11 follows "Mozart Sonatas."
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