Over and Out (Tar album)

Over and Out is the fourth and final studio album by American post-hardcore band Tar, released in 1995 through Touch and Go Records.[5][6]

Over and Out
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 19, 1995
RecordedMay 1994 – April 1995 at Electrical Audio Recording, Chicago IL
GenreNoise rock
Length42:39
LabelTouch and Go Records[1]
ProducerSteve Albini[2]
Tar chronology
Toast
(1993)
Over and Out
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide[4]

Two outtakes from the album were released by fanzine Chunklet in 2012.[7]

Critical reception

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MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide praised the album's "stripped down" sound and "new, menacing darkness."[4] The Chicago Reader wrote that "Mark Zablocki and front man John Mohr lock their lean, meaty guitars together into unfussy dual riffs, simultaneously neat and jagged, that add an extra jolt of momentum to the precise, bulldozer-simple pounding of drummer Mike Greenlees."[7] Trouser Press called the album Tar's "best and most varied," writing that "the emotional centerpiece is the tumultuous 'Building Taj Mahal', which ruminates on a band’s last stand: 'I am familiar with the concept of filler,' sings Mohr, but adds, 'This one is special.'"[8]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Tar

No.TitleLength
1."Known Anomalies"4:20
2."Welk"3:28
3."Time To Strike"3:37
4."Building Taj Mahal"6:59
5."Q.V.C."4:11
6."Billow My Sail"2:48
7."Muncie"4:41
8."Carpel Tunnel Season"4:09
9."Topless, Mindless, Senseless"4:05
10."The Shoo"4:21

Personnel

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Performers

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  • John Mohr - vocals, electric guitar
  • Mark Zablocki - electric guitar, e-bow
  • Mike Greenlees - drum set
  • Tom Zaluckyj - electric bass guitar, electric guitar, vocals
  • Al Johnson - vocals on "Known Anomalies"

Production

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References

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  1. ^ "Over and Out | Tar | Touch and Go / Quarterstick Records". www.touchandgorecords.com.
  2. ^ Earles, Andrew (September 15, 2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. ISBN 9781627883795 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "AllMusic ((( Over and Out )))". AllMusic. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  4. ^ a b MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 1123.
  5. ^ "Tar | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. ^ Rothschild, David. "ROAD TIRES TAR, AND THE BAND WON'T PLAY ON". chicagotribune.com.
  7. ^ a b "Shellac, Nina Nastasia, Tar". Chicago Reader.
  8. ^ "Tar". Trouser Press. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
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