Here's to Shutting Up

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Here's to Shutting Up
Studio album by Superchunk
Released	September 18, 2001
Genre	Alternative, Indie Rock
Length	43:41
Label	Merge Records
Producer	Brian Paulson, Superchunk
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork Media (7.9/10) link
Superchunk chronology
Come Pick Me Up (1999) Here's to Shutting Up (2001) The Clambakes Series Vol. 1 (2002)

Here's to Shutting Up is the eighth studio album by Superchunk. Brian Paulson, who served as co-producer, previously worked with the band on 1994's Foolish.

On this album, the band continued to develop away from the fuzzy punk-pop of its earlier days to something more textured. Keyboards, strings and acoustic guitars abound, and even a pedal steel makes an appearance on "Phone Sex."

The band left "Phone Sex" out of the initial performances of the accompanying tour; with the 11 September 2001 attacks a painfully fresh memory, the members felt uncomfortable performing a song featuring the lyrics "Plane crash footage on TV / I know, I know that could be me." [1]

The title of the album is taken from the opening of the song "Out on the Wing."

[edit] Track listing

1. "Late-Century Dream"
2. "Rainy Streets"
3. "Phone Sex"
4. "Florida's on Fire"
5. "Out on the Wing"
6. "The Animal Has Left its Shell"
7. "Act Surprised"
8. "Art Class (Song for Yayoi Kusama)"
9. "What Do You Look Forward To?"
10. "Drool Collection"