No Doubt Tragic Kingdom

No Doubt Tragic KingdomNo Doubt: Gwen Stefani (vocals); Tom Dumont (guitar); Eric Stefani (piano, keyboards); Tony Kanal (bass); Adrian Young (drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Aloke DasGupta (sitar); Melissa Hasin (cello); Gerard Boisse, Bill Bergman (saxophone); Greg Smith (baritone saxophone); Phil Jordan, Les Lovitt (trumpet); Nick Lane (trombone); Gabe McNair (trombone, percussion); Matthew Wilder (keyboards); Stephen Perkins (steel drums). Engineers include:

lavishes these songs with sonic details that are almost hallucinatory: the echoes that grace opening track "Flip" suggest a slow-motion reverie before the song locks into a louder

and one's reaction to the extended soloing on tracks like "Lead On" (which runs eight minutes) and "You're on Your Own" (13 minutes

jagged edges and impassioned

Hide Your Fires

and it helps that Phoenix have been drawing inspiration from the '80s longer than that decade actually existed (the fact that they mixed Bankrupt

uncompromising

Part of the album's success could be attributed to Desmond Child

He's Seein Paths

and a backing band that sounds as intimate with the material as its creator

Positively 4th Street

Tim "Herb" Alexander (drums)

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