A City Dressed in Dynamite is the debut album by That Handsome Devil

That Handsome Devil

That Handsome Devil is an American rock band hailing from Brooklyn, New York, by way of Boston, Massachusetts.The band mixes genres such as rock, funk, jazz, jive, blues, surf, R&B, reggae, rockabilly, rap, and psychedelic. Their sound has also been described as "equal parts Screamin’ Jay Hawkins,...

. It was released in 2008. It was recorded at Cybersound Studios in Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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. It is darker in tone and content than the band's EP, with some songs dealing explicitly with drug addiction and death. The album includes numerous samples of the 1950's educational video "Narcotics: Pit of Despair". The cover art and the illustrations in the album booklet were done by Neil "Women 158" Parkinson.

Track listing

Notes

• On Track 11, "Treefood" ends at 4:23, followed by hidden track "Atom Shell" at 5:23
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   exclusive bonus tracks are "Karaoke Burial" and "Power Drunk"
• The eMusic
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   exclusive bonus tracks "Powderbomb" and "Romance is Dead"

Personnel

• Godforbid – lead vocals.
• Jeremy Page – guitar, bass
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  , keyboard
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  , banjo
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  , pedal steel, glockenspiel
  Glockenspiel
  A glockenspiel is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, and making it a metallophone...
  
  , percussion, accordion
  Accordion
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  , synthesizers, kazoo
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  , backing vocals
• Naoko Takamoto – backing vocals.
• Andy Bauer – drums, percussion, accordion, guitar, backing vocals.
• Evan Sanders – keyboard, trumpet, trombone
  Trombone
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• Martin Rodriguez – guitar.
• DJ Beyonder – turntable
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• Lucas Lajuene – violin.
• Benjamin Powell – violin.
• Fabrizio Mazzetta – cello.

Appearances

• "Rob the Prez-O-Dent" is featured in Rock Band 2
  Rock Band 2
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• A portion of "Mexico" was featured in the seventh episode of Weeds
  Weeds (TV series)
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  , "Yes I Can".
• "Squares" is featured in Reaper
  Reaper (TV series)
  Reaper is an American television series that focuses on Sam Oliver, a "reaper" who works for the Devil by retrieving souls that have escaped from Hell.The series originally ran on the CW from September 25, 2007 to May 26, 2009....
  
  in the episode "Rebellion".

External links

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