Law (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Law
Type = studio
Artist = Cougar


Released = flagicon|EU 2006
flagicon|US 2007-02-20
Recorded = 2004, at Layered Studios and Johnson House, North Paterson Street, Madison, Wisconsincite web
title = "Law" liner art
publisher = Cougar
date =
url = http://www.cougarsound.com/Cougar_Liners.pdf
accessdate = 2008-08-08]
Genre = Rock
Post-rock
Experimental
Psychedelic music
Length = 47:45
Label = Layered Music
Producer = Cougar
Reviews =
*Pitchfork Media (6.7/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/40929/Cougar_Law link]
*"Time Out Chicago" rating|4|6 [http://www.timeout.com/chicago/articles/music/15804/cougar link]
*"XLR8R" (8/10) [http://www.xlr8r.com/reviews/cougar/law link]
Last album =
This album = "Law"
(2006)
Next album =

"Law" is Madison, Wisconsin-based post-rock band Cougar's début album. It was recorded at Layered Studios in Madison and released by Layered Music in Europe in February 2006, and in America release was one year later, on February 20, 2007.cite web|title=Cougar press kit|publisher=Cougar|url=http://www.cougarsound.com/Cougar_Presskit.pdf|accessdate=2008-08-08] It was distributed by Play It Again Sam.

Track listing

All tracks written by Cougar.
# "Atlatl" – 5:36
# "One" – 0:49
# "Strict Scrutiny" – 5:06
# "Pulse Conditioner" – 4:01
# "Interracial Dating" – 3:30
# "Two" – 0:47
# "Your Excellency" – 5:34
# "Three" – 0:41
# "Lifetime Ranger" – 4:28
# "Four" – 0:38
# "The Mosaicist" – 5:20
# "Black Dove" – 5:43
# "Five" – 0:59
# "Merit" – 3:39
# "Postscript" – 0:47

Personnel

Band members

*Todd Hill – bass guitar
*Trent Johnson – guitar
*DH Skogen – percussion
*Aaron Sleator – electronics
*Dan Venne – guitar

Other personnel

*John McEntire – additional recording and mixing
*Satoshi Shinozaki – recording of strings on "Black Dove"
*Christian Zamora – strings on "Black Dove"

References

External links

* [http://www.myspace.com/cougarsound Cougar] at MySpace
* [http://www.layered.org Layered Music]
* [http://www.cougarsound.com Official web site]