{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Strand | type = studio | artist = The Spinanes | cover = SpinanesStrand.jpg | alt = | released = February 27, 1996 | recorded = 1996 | venue = | studio = | genre = Indie rock | length = 53:25 | label = Sub Pop | producer = Spinanes<ref name=MH/> | prev_title = Manos | prev_year = 1993 | next_title = Arches and Aisles | next_year = 1998 }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="AllMusic review"/> | rev2 = ''Alternative Press'' | rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="AltPressRev">{{Cite magazine |last=Slankard |first=Noah |date=May 1996 |title=Music Reviews |magazine=Alternative Press |volume=10 |issue=94 |page=91}}</ref> |rev3 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=7 |page=662}}</ref> |rev4 = ''MusicHound Rock'' |rev4score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="MH">{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=1070}}</ref> |rev5 = ''Spin'' |rev5score = 6/10<ref name="Spin review">{{Cite magazine |title=The Spinanes: Strand |magazine=Spin |first=Johnny |last=Huston |date=April 1996 |pages=113 |volume=12 |issue=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JheoECFjDqMC&pg=PA113 |accessdate=2018-07-20}}</ref> }} '''''Strand''''' is the second studio album by the American indie rock band The Spinanes, released in 1996 by Sub Pop.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-spinanes-mn0000574540/biography|title=The Spinanes | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ii0EAAAAMBAJ&dq=Strand+spinanes+1996&pg=PA1987|title=Best New Music|work=CMJ New Music Monthly|date=April 23, 1996|publisher=CMJ Network, Inc.|via=Google Books}}</ref>
==Production== The album was recorded in Memphis, Tennessee.<ref name=CL/> Elliott Smith sings on two tracks.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://magnetmagazine.com/2009/03/13/lost-classics-the-spinanes-strand/|title=Lost Classics: The Spinanes "Strand"|date=March 13, 2009}}</ref>
==Release and promotion== ''Strand'' was released on February 27, 1996, by Sub Pop.<ref name="Sub Pop release">{{Cite web |website=Sub Pop |title=The Spinanes - Strand |url=https://megamart.subpop.com/releases/the_spinanes/strand |access-date=2018-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806035002/https://megamart.subpop.com/releases/the_spinanes/strand |archive-date=2016-08-06 |url-status=live}}</ref> To promote the album, the band performed with two additional musicians at Lounge Ax in Chicago, Illinois, on March 26, 1996.<ref name="Lounge Ax">{{Cite web |website=Chicago Reader |title=Ragged But Right |url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/ragged-but-right/Content?oid=890356 |access-date=2018-07-24 |first=Bill |last=Meyer |date=1996-04-25 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180724205526/https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/ragged-but-right/Content?oid=890356 |archive-date=2018-07-24 |url-status=live}}</ref>
==Critical reception== AllMusic praised the album's variety of instruments and the addition of guest vocalists.<ref name="AllMusic review">{{Cite web |website=AllMusic |title=Strand – The Spinanes |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/strand-mw0000647148 |first=Richie |last=Unterberger |access-date=2018-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617122645/https://www.allmusic.com/album/strand-mw0000647148 |archive-date=2012-06-17 |url-status=live}}</ref> ''The Washington Post'' wrote: "With Rebecca Gates adding piano, organ and mellotron to her guitar, such hushed, atmospheric tracks as 'Madding' and 'Luminous' live up to their Cocteau Twinnish titles."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/03/29/spinanes-textures/bb9da614-984a-4c60-a7d6-d68699573f20/|title=SPINANES' TEXTURES|first=Mark|last=Jenkins|date=March 29, 1996|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref> ''Magnet'' wrote that the album "transcended [the band's] ragged Northwest-indie roots and gave Gates’ smart songwriting a dreamy, atmospheric sheen."<ref name="auto"/> ''Trouser Press'' wrote that "the album exists on another plane, a dreamstate rooted in studio experimentation not live practicality."<ref>{{cite web |title=Spinanes |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/spinanes/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=23 February 2021}}</ref>
==Track listing== # "Madding" – 5:28 # "Azure" – 3:51 # "Lines and Lines" – 6:23 # "Meridian" – 3:53 # "Punch Line Loser" – 4:01 # "Valency" – 3:26 # "Luminous" – 6:03 # "Oceanwide" – 5:40 # "Winter On Ice" – 6:00 # "Watch Down" – 4:23 # "For No One Else" – 4:16
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==External links== *{{Discogs master|type=album|172453|name=Strand}}
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Category:1996 albums Category:The Spinanes albums Category:Sub Pop albums