Let's Bottle Bohemia

Let's Bottle Bohemia is the second album by the Irish indie/rock band The Thrills. It was produced and mixed by Dave Sardy. The album went platinum in Ireland in 2005,^[4] debuting at #1. In the UK, the album debuted at #9 and remained in the charts for 4 weeks.^[5]

Let's Bottle Bohemia
Studio album by The Thrills
Released	13 September 2004
Recorded	2003–2004
Genre	Indie
Length	42:07
Label	Virgin Records
Producer	Dave Sardy
The Thrills chronology
So Much for the City (2003) Let's Bottle Bohemia (2004) Teenager (2007)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Pitchfork Media	6.0/10^[2]
Rolling Stone	^[3]

In an interview in 2004, lead singer Conor Deasy described the band's upcoming second album:

I think [the new album's] great. I'm really excited about it. It's different from the first record. It's a step on, I think. A lot of bands, in the last few years, have released good first albums and haven't really stepped up to the challenge on the second one. [Our new album] doesn't really sound like a record people are making quite now. It's tougher, but it's also quite beautiful as well. It's a nice kind of mixture. It's a little more ambiguous as well.

— Conor Deasy^[6]

Track listing

1. "Tell Me Something I Don't Know" – 3:56
2. "Whatever Happened To Corey Haim?" – 3:34
3. "Faded Beauty Queens" (guest appearance by Peter Buck on mandolin & Van Dyke Parks on accordion) – 3:40
4. "Saturday Night" – 2:31
5. "Not for All the Love in the World" – 4:06
6. "Our Wasted Lives" – 3:46
7. "You Can't Fool Old Friends with Limousines" – 3:12
8. "Found My Rosebud" – 4:19
9. "The Curse of Comfort" (guest appearance by Peter Buck on guitar) – 3:01
10. "The Irish Keep Gate-crashing" – 3:05 / "A City Of Long Nights" (hidden track) – 7:02 (both songs: Strings arranged and conducted by Van Dyke Parks)

Singles

• "Whatever Happened To Corey Haim?" (August 30, 2004)
• "Not for All the Love in the World" (November 15, 2004)
• "The Irish Keep Gate-crashing" (March 21, 2005)

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Pitchfork Media review 2008-03-08 at the Wayback Machine
4. Jaclyn Ward (1 October 1962). "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". Irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
5. "The Thrills". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
6. . Livedaily.com. 19 May 2004. Archived from the original on 25 October 2008. Retrieved 25 March 2012.