Silt is the debut album by Mistle Thrush

Mistle Thrush (Band)

Mistle Thrush was a female-fronted 1990s alternative rock band based in Boston, Massachusetts. They've been described by the Boston Herald as The Cure-meets-Fairport Convention. Steve Morse of The Boston Globe wrote that Valerie Forgione, the band's singer, has "some of the most versatile pipes...

, a Boston, Massachusetts

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-based band. It was released in 1995 on CD

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 by Bedazzled

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 (catalog #BDZ26). The previous year, the band released a five-song EP titled Agus Amàrach

Agus Amàrach

Agus Amàrach, an EP, is the first CD released by Mistle Thrush, a goth-identified band based in Boston, Massachusetts. It came out in 1994 on Washington, D.C.-based Bedazzled Records . It was followed by the band's debut full-length, Silt, in 1995...

. The band didn't release another full-length album until 1997's Super Refraction

Super Refraction

Super Refraction is the second full-length album by former Boston, Massachusetts band Mistle Thrush. It was released in 1997 by Egg Records .-Track listing:All songs written by Mistle Thrush#"Stupid Song" – 3:12#"Moth-Like" – 4:00...

. Silt saw original guitarist Brad Rigney (departed to Big Monster Fish Hook) replaced by former teenage hardcore

Boston hardcore

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 semi-star, Matthew Kattman (ex-Funny Wagon/Kingpin).

Track listing

All songs written by Mistle Thrush, except where noted

1. "Freshwater" – 2:14
2. "Flowereyed" – 4:20
3. "One Sixth" – :42
4. "Cicada" – 5:51 (Todd Demma, Valerie Forgione, Matthew Kattman, Ruben Layman, Scott Patalano, Brad Rigney)
5. "Overpass" – 4:20
6. "Some Poet" – 5:02
7. "Wake Up (The Sleep Song)" – 5:59
8. "Silt" – 1:04
9. "Red Caboose" – 4:01
10. "Shine Away" – 6:20
11. "The Sky and My Hands" – 5:22 (Demma, Forgione, Kattman, Layman, Patalano, Rigney)
12. "The Honey Trip" – 9:26
13. "Bloom" – 3:20

The band

• Todd Demma — Drums
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  , percussion
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• Valerie Forgione — Vocals, acoustic guitar
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  , xylophone
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  , drums ("The Sky and My Hands")
• Matthew Kattman — Electric
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   and acoustic guitar, bass guitar
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   ("The Sky and My Hands")
• Ruben Layman — Bass guitar
• Scott Patalano — Electric and acoustic guitar, drums ("The Sky and My Hands")

Production

• Y. Mike — Producer, mixing
• Mistle Thrush — Producer, mixing
• Jon Williams — Assistant engineer
• Dan McLaughlin — Assistant engineer
• David Lefkowitz — Assistant engineer
• Marc LaFleur — Assistant engineer
• Mike Sielewicz — Engineer

Additional credits

• Recorded at Fort Apache
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  , Cambridge
  Cambridge, Massachusetts
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  , Massachusetts
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   and The Studio
• Mixed at Prophet Sound and The Studio
• Mastered at M Works
• Rebecca Fagan — Design
• Matthew Kattman — Illustration
• Petrina Katsikas — Manager
• "Mistle Thrush would like to extend special thanks to the following people: Petrina Katsikas, Y. Mike, Rebecca Fagan, Steve Willett, Rob Wyatt
  Bedazzled Records
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  , Brian Dunton and Fort Apache, Jon Williams, Dan McLaughlin, the staff at Prophet Sound, Steve Saar, Kim Alexander, Mark White, Mike Demma and Eric Cohen. We would also like to thank our families, friends and loved ones, as well as the bands that we've played with and those who have given us support through radio, the press, and any other means. Your help along the way is greatly appreciated."