# Long Sound

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Long Sound
| type       = studio
| artist     = [the Coctails](/source/the_Coctails)
| cover      = Long Sound.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1993
| recorded   = 
| venue      =
| studio     = Acme Recording
| genre      = [Lounge rock](/source/Lounge_rock), [jazz](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Ken_Vandermark) and saxophonist [Hal Russell](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Pitchfork_(website))'' 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

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