{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Long Sound | type = studio | artist = the Coctails | cover = Long Sound.jpg | alt = | released = 1993 | recorded = | venue = | studio = Acme Recording | genre = Lounge rock, jazz | length = | label = Hi-Ball/Carrot Top<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Clark |first1=Rick |title=Give them one good region |magazine=Billboard |date=Feb 25, 1995 |volume=107 |issue=8 |page=104}}</ref> | producer = | prev_title = 3/4 Time EP | prev_year = 1993 | next_title = Winter Wonderland | next_year = 1993 }} '''''Long Sound''''' is an album by the American band the Coctails.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Staple |first1=Arthur |title=It's the Last Call for the Coctails |work=The Record |date=13 Oct 1995 |department=Lifestyle/Previews |page=32}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Sacharow |first1=Anya |title=Cocktail Nation |magazine=New York |date=Aug 22, 1994 |volume=27 |issue=33 |page=41}}</ref> It was released in 1993, one of the many notable albums to come out of Chicago that year.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/coctails/|title=Coctails|first=J.|last=Niimi|date=December 15, 2005|work=Chicago Reader}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sfweekly.com/music/kitschy-cool/|title=Kitschy cool|date=February 22, 1995|work=SF Weekly}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Kot |first1=Greg |title=In Chicago, It's Really a Battle of Bands! |work=Chicago Tribune |date=25 July 1993 |department=Arts |page=5}}</ref>
==Production== The band moved away from its earlier lounge sound by inviting reedman Ken Vandermark and saxophonist Hal Russell to help bring out more jazz elements.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-coctails-mn0000075184/biography|title=The Coctails Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=AllMusic}}</ref><ref name="CM">{{cite magazine |last1=Reger |first1=Rick |title=Last Call: The Coctails (1990–1995) |magazine=CMJ New Music Monthly |date=Mar 1996 |issue=31 |page=17}}</ref> Dave Crawford, of Poi Dog Pondering, contributed on trumpet and flugelhorn.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adams |first1=Bruce |title=You're with Stupid: Kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music |date=2022 |publisher=University of Texas Press |page=75}}</ref><ref name=TP/> Many of the more guitar-centered tracks recorded during the sessions ended up on the band's next album, ''Peel''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/coctail-timefour-fellows-from-chicago-who-love-what-they-play-whatever-it-is-6424963|title=Coctail Time|first=Peter|last=Gilstrap|work=Phoenix New Times}}</ref>
==Critical reception== {{Music ratings |rev1= AllMusic |rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/long-sound-mw0000101605|title=Long Sound|website=AllMusic}}</ref> |rev2 = Robert Christgau |rev2score = {{Rating-Christgau|dud}}<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cocktails |url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=2684 |website=Robert Christgau |access-date=23 November 2021}}</ref> }} ''Trouser Press'' wrote: "While hardly virtuosos, the Coctails play with low-key humor and create a series of soundscapes—by turns muted and buoyant, lush and fractured—that evoke heroes from Billy Strayhorn to Sun Ra."<ref name="TP">{{cite web |title=Coctails |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/coctails/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=23 November 2021}}</ref> The ''Chicago Tribune'' called the album "a beautifully programmed series of jazzy soundscapes, with ringers like Ken Vandermark, Dave Crawford and Hal Russell—in the last recorded performance before his death—adding their distinctive voices."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kot |first1=Greg |title=Nothing Manages to Shake Coctails |work=Chicago Tribune |date=26 Aug 1994 |department=Friday |page=5}}</ref>
The ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' praised the "brooding, melancholic, jazzy feel," writing that the band "proved they were more than Blue Note wannabes by constructing a record any jazz aficionado would cite as a Top 10 pick."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Norman |first1=Tony |title=Less frothy, Coctails pack a serious kick |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=15 Sep 1994 |page=C5}}</ref> ''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' concluded: "Snaky and hypnotic, the tunes amble like a laid-back flip side to Eric Dolphy's classic, ''Out to Lunch''."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dollar |first1=Steve |title=Pop Music – Heavy Rotation |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=June 10, 1994 |page=P9}}</ref> The ''Wisconsin State Journal'' noted that "the band made what it felt was a necessary foray into free-form jazz noodling, with longer songs and mixed results."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Thompson |first1=Stephen |title=Coctails Serve Exciting Sounds |work=Wisconsin State Journal |date=March 16, 1995 |department=Rhythm |page=9}}</ref>
AllMusic wrote that "the quartet's sound moved more to jazz and away from the band's poppier efforts on albums like ''Early Hi-Ball Years''."<ref name="auto1"/> ''Pitchfork'' deemed it "a superb album of alternately weird and elegiac jazz."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1796-popcorn-box/|title=The Coctails: Popcorn Box|website=Pitchfork}}</ref>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | all_writing = | title1 = Steam | length1 = | title2 = China Song | length2 = | title3 = Monkeys and Seals | length3 = | title4 = Stray Horn | length4 = | title5 = Tenement | length5 = | title6 = Twilight for Henry | length6 = | title7 = Waterlogged | length7 = | title8 = Clown's Coffee | length8 = | title9 = Far East | length9 = | title10 = Gripper Bite | length10 = | total_length = }}
==References== {{reflist}}
Category:The Coctails albums Category:1993 albums