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On November 2, 1998, Saddle Creek released Letting Off the Happiness, a ten-track album that boasted a more focused and clearer sound than the previous album.
According to the Saddle Creek press release, it features members of Lullaby for the Working Class, Neutral Milk Hotel, and of Montreal.
It was predominantly recorded in the Oberst family basement in Omaha on an analog eight track reel to reel ; with some work also done at keyboardist Andy Lemaster's Athens, Georgia studio.
Although almost all of the tracks feature a full band, " June on the West Coast " is performed with only acoustic guitar and vocals.
" Padraic My Prince " gives a dramatic fictional account of the death of his baby brother, a story with a multitude of symbolic meanings.
The song " An Attempt To Tip the Scales " on the album " Fevers and Mirrors " has a faux interview near the end of the track.
It was not Oberst speaking it is actually Todd Fink ( formerly known as Todd Baechle ) who was a labelmate and had played in other bands with Oberst.
The interview was meant to be somewhat sarcastic and most of what the Oberst impersonator said was not true, at least for the most part.
At one point the interviewer asks the question: " So some of these references like babies in bathtubs are not biographical?
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