Oh My God, Charlie Darwin is a studio album by American

United States

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 indie folk

Indie folk

Indie folk is a music genre that arose in the 1990s from singer/songwriters in the indie rock community showing heavy influences from folk music scenes of the 50s, 60s and early 70s, country music, and indie rock. A few early artists included Lou Barlow, Beck, Jeff Buckley and Elliott Smith...

 band The Low Anthem

The Low Anthem

The Low Anthem is an American indie folk band from Providence, Rhode Island, formed in 2006. The band consists of multi-instrumentalists Ben Knox Miller, Jeff Prystowsky and Jocie Adams, and rose to prominence with the re-release of its third studio album, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, in 2009.In...

, originally released in 2008, and re-released on June 29, 2009 on Bella Union

Bella Union

Bella Union is an independent record label that was started up by Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthrie in 1997.After releasing records with 4AD for a large part of their career, Cocteau Twins decided to take a step towards independence and started up the Bella Union record label, through which they...

. Ben Knox Miller states that "listening to the record is akin to taking shelter during a lightning storm among nostalgic remnants in a water-damaged church, whose new tenants – rats, owls, stray dogs and snakes – comprise a burgeoning, cacophonous, dog-eat-dog ecosystem."

Track listing

1. "Charlie Darwin" - 4:33
2. "To Ohio" - 3:19
3. "Ticket Taker" - 3:08
4. "The Horizon Is A Beltway" - 2:51
5. "Home I'll Never Be" (Jack Kerouac
   Jack Kerouac
   Jean-Louis "Jack" Lebris de Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his spontaneous method of writing, covering topics such as Catholic...
   
   /Tom Waits
   Tom Waits
   Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...
   
   ) - 2:50
6. "Cage the Songbird" - 4:03
7. "(Don't) Tremble" - 4:39
8. "Music Box" - 1:52
9. "Champion Angel" - 5:34
10. "To the Ghosts Who Write History Books" - 3:31
11. "OMGCD" - 2:04
12. "To Ohio (Reprise)" - 3:42