Ears Like Golden Bats is the third album by My Teenage Stride

My Teenage Stride

My Teenage Stride is band from Brooklyn, New York, with influences including The Smiths and The Jesus and Mary Chain. They have released four albums since 2004.-History:...

. Lawrence Lui of CokemachineGlow.com gave it a 69% rating, stating "taking C86

C86 (music)

C86 is a cassette compilation released by the British music magazine NME in 1986, featuring new bands licensed from independent labels of the time. As a phrase, C86 quickly evolved into shorthand for a guitar-based musical genre characterised by "jangly" guitars and fey melodies, although other...

 pastoralism and refracting it through the prism of ‘90s lo-fi Amer-indie, Ears Like Golden Bats projects a treble-happy modesty that can be at once charming and cloying". Jennifer Kelly of PopMatters described it as "wonderful stuff". Alistair Fitchett, in Tangets, described it as "one of the finer albums of the year". Magnet featured it in its top 20 albums of 2008 list, and it has appeared on innumerable top 10, 20, and 100 album and song lists in the blogosphere.

Track listing

All songs written by Jedediah Smith.

1. "Reception" - 2:11
2. "That Should Stand for Something" - 2:20
3. "To Live and Die in the Airport Lounge" - 3:43
4. "Actors' Colony" - 1:35
5. "Ears Like Golden Bats" - 2:20
6. "The Genie of New Jersey" - 2:47
7. "Terror Bends" - 2:40
8. "Reversal" - 2:48
9. "Chock's Rally" - 2:24
10. "Heartless & Cruel" - 2:17
11. "Ruin" - 2:53
12. "We'll Meet at Emily's" - 2:59
13. "Depression Kicks" - 3:23
14. "Boys Will Tell" - 3:31