Susquehanna (album)
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| Studio album by Cherry Poppin' Daddies | ||||
| Released | February 19, 2008 (online only) June 10, 2008 (CD) September 29, 2009 (re-Issue) |
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| Recorded | June–July 2007 | |||
| Genre | Rock, worldbeat, ska, pop rock | |||
| Length | 45:25 | |||
| Label | Space Age Bachelor Pad Rock Ridge Music (2009) |
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| Producer | Steve Perry | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AbsolutePunk | 86% |
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| PopMatters (2008) | 4/10 |
| PopMatters (2009) | 8/10 |
Susquehanna is the fifth studio album by the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released by Space Age Bachelor Pad Records in February 2008 and reissued by Rock Ridge Music in September 2009.
Susquehanna marked the band's return to recording after nearly a decade following their hiatus in 2000 and sporadic touring throughout 2002–2006. The album follows the eclectic format of previous records, with Latin and Caribbean-influences in addition to the band's usual swing, ska. and rock.
The music of Susquehanna is predominantly influenced by Latin and Caribbean music, incorporating strains of flamenco ("Roseanne"), soca ("Tom the Lion"), bossa nova ("Breathe"), Latin rock ("Bust Out") and reggae ("Blood Orange Sun") alongside the familiar Daddies territory of swing, ska and rockabilly. While the majority of the album is original material, a notable exception is a re-recording of "Hi and Lo", a ska punk song which was originally written by Daddies frontman Steve Perry for The Mighty Mighty Bosstones in the mid-1990s, ultimately ending up as part of the Daddies' own repertoire and becoming a staple of their live shows.
Perry explained that the album's tropical slant was due to his prediction that one day "American pop will owe a huge debt to world sensibilities...these I wanted to explore and potentially boil down to some fundamental building blocks that might lead toward a new, more international style". Stylistically, Perry claimed that he based the structure of Susquehanna on James Joyce's Ulysses, in that each of the songs were written in a distinctly different style and genre but the album as a whole was thematically coherent. He further elaborated that he drew additional inspiration from Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film Pierrot le fou, in the regard that "songs are a means to an end. Genres reflect off each other".
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