Smog – Knock Knock (Half-Speed Mastered)

“Back in ’99, Bill Callahan was staking out new territory. Issued in the wake of the game-changing “Red Apple Falls” album, “Knock Knock” upped the ante of the game, pairing his naked portraiture with increasingly delicate nuances in song and arrangement. “Knock Knock” was enough of a tour de force that staging a re-look these twenty years later was a cool no-brainer. With production values at an all-time (for then) high and a team of Chicago-based studio rats (as well as a carefully vetted-and-compenstated singing children’s choir) on the case, “Knock Knock” was the most colorful of Smog albums; a record that played like a real-life opera, a story told in song.”

LP / Drag City