Help Wanted Nights
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| Studio album by The Good Life | ||||
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 September 11, 2007 |
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| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | 40:13 | |||
| Label | Saddle Creek Records | |||
| Producer | Mike Mogis | |||
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| Allmusic |
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| AP # 231 |  |
| Blender |
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| Drowned in Sound |
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| Lost at Sea | (6.7/10) link |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.0/10.0) Review |
| Prefix Magazine |
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| Rockfeedback |
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| Twisted Ear |
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Help Wanted Nights is the fourth album by the Omaha-based band The Good Life, released on September 11, 2007 on Saddle Creek Records. Currently, frontman Tim Kasher has moved to Los Angeles and has written a screenplay entitled Help Wanted Nights. He has stated that the screenplay acts as a 'counterpart' to the album:
I tried to have the songs be less storytelling, and less narrative...since I was writing this fictionalized counterpart to this thing, I kind of liked the idea of writing songs to [exist] more as ideas that complement something else that was written. I tried to focus less on narrative and more on those big ideas.
In regards to the content of the album, Kasher reveals that the new album involves:
"Roughly a week in a bar in a small town where a stranger's car breaks down...so, he fraternizes with the regulars, getting too wrapped up in their sordid lives. Something like that."
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