Can Cladders

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Can Cladders | type = studio | artist = the High Llamas | cover = Can Cladders.jpg | alt = | released = 19 February 2007 <small>(U.S.)</small> | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Pop | length = 39:42 | label = Drag City<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dragcity.com/products/can-cladders|title=The High Llamas - Can Cladders | Drag City|website=www.dragcity.com}}</ref> | producer = | prev_title = Beet, Maize & Corn | prev_year = 2003 | next_title = Talahomi Way | next_year = 2011 }} {{Album ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r945602/review}}</ref> |rev2 = ''The A.V. Club'' |rev2score = A−<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/the-high-llamas-can-cladders-1798202383|title=The High Llamas: Can Cladders|website=Music|date=27 February 2007 }}</ref> |rev3 = ''The Guardian'' |rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="auto">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/feb/16/popandrock.shopping5|title=CDs: The High Llamas, Can Cladders|first=Maddy|last=Costa|newspaper=The Guardian |date=February 16, 2007|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> | rev4 = ''Pitchfork Media'' | rev4Score = 7.3/10<ref>{{Cite web | last = Harvey | first = Eric | author-link = | title = Can Cladders | publisher = Pitchfork Media | date = February 21, 2007 | url = http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9887-can-cladders/ | format = | doi = | accessdate = August 13, 2011}}</ref> |rev5 = ''Stylus Magazine'' |rev5score = C+<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/the-high-llamas/can-cladders.htm|title=The High Llamas - Can Cladders - Review - Stylus Magazine|date=December 4, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071204070800/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/the-high-llamas/can-cladders.htm|archive-date=4 December 2007|access-date=18 October 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref> |rev6 = ''Tiny Mix Tapes'' |rev6score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/high-llamas-can-cladders|title=Music Review: High Llamas - Can Cladders|website=Tiny Mix Tapes}}</ref> }} '''''Can Cladders''''' is a studio album by London-based musical project the High Llamas.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-high-llamas-mn0000087217/biography|title=The High Llamas | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref> It was released in 2007 on Drag City.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/the-high-llamas-can-cladders-2495962776.html|title=The High Llamas: Can Cladders|date=February 28, 2007|website=PopMatters}}</ref>

==Production== The High Llamas spent three years working on the album.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/can-cladders|title=Can Cladders - Record Collector Magazine|website=recordcollectormag.com}}</ref>

==Critical reception== ''The Guardian'' wrote that "packed with vividly coloured melodies, these songs have a luminous quality, but they also confuse the hypnotic with the repetitive, and richness of texture with gluttonous excess."<ref name="auto"/> ''Exclaim!'' wrote that "the vibe throughout ''Can Cladders'' is too dreamily lethargic to sustain prolonged interest."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/high_llamas-can_cladders|title=High Llamas Can Cladders|website=exclaim.ca}}</ref> The ''Cleveland Scene'' wrote that the album "bubbles with a bossa-nova pulse, where cascading strings sidle up to a late-night beachside piano bar."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/the-high-llamas/Content?oid=1497922|title=The High Llamas|first=Chris|last=Parker|website=Cleveland Scene}}</ref>

==Track listing== #"The Old Spring Town" – 3:29 #"Winter's Day" – 4:48 #"Sailing Bells" – 3:03 #"Boing Backwards" – 0:44 #"Honeytrop" – 3:40 #"Bacaroo" – 3:23 #"Can Cladders" – 3:26 #"Something About Paper" – 0:38 #"Clarion Union Hall" – 4:32 #"Cove Cutter" – 4:13 #"Dorothy Ashby" – 3:03 #"Rollin'" – 3:52 #"Summer Seen" – 0:51

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Category:2007 albums Category:The High Llamas albums