Blue Cathedral is the third studio album by Comets on Fire

Comets on Fire

Comets on Fire was an American noise rock band from Santa Cruz, California. The band was formed in 1999 by guitarist and vocalist Ethan Miller and longtime friend bassist Ben Flashman, who were seeking to create rhythmically and sonically intense music that paid no attention to categorizations.-...

. It was released in 2004 on the Sub Pop

Sub Pop

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 label. Its sound is a mix of psychedelic

Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...

 and noise rock

Noise rock

Noise rock describes a style of post-punk rock music that became prominent in the 1980s. Noise rock makes use of the traditional instrumentation and iconography of rock, but incorporates atonality and especially dissonance, and also frequently discards usual songwriting conventions.-Style:Noise...

.

In an interview, Comets on Fire echoplex

Echoplex

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 and electronics player Noel von Harmonson stated that the album cover art for Blue Cathedral was a photograph of an elephant

Elephant

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 that suffered from a disease causing a lack of pigment in some areas of its skin. In 2007 the album was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties

All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)

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-curated Don't Look Back

Don't Look Back (concert series)

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series.

Track listing

1. "The Bee and the Cracking Egg" – 7:45
2. "Pussy Foot the Duke" – 5:07
3. "Whiskey River" – 7:54
4. "Organs" – 1:45
5. "The Antlers of the Midnight Sun" – 4:06
6. "Brotherhood of the Harvest" – 4:39
7. "Wild Whiskey" – 3:00
8. "Blue Tomb" – 10:06