Fortune, by The Mendoza Line

Fortune

by The Mendoza Line

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1.	Fellow Travelers 03:29	buy track
2.	Faithful Brother (scourge of the land) 01:57	buy track
3.	Before I Hit The Wall 03:16	buy track
4.	It's A Long Line (but it moves quickly) 03:27	buy track
5.	Let's Not Talk About It 03:35	buy track
6.	An Architect's Eye 03:18	buy track
7.	Metro Pictures 03:54	buy track
8.	They Never Bat An Eye 03:03	buy track
9.	Tiny Motions 03:22	buy track
10.	Flat Feet And Western Style 04:29	buy track
11.	Road To Insolvency 03:42	buy track
12.	Will You Be Here Tomorrow? 03:11	buy track
13.	Throw It In The Fire 08:14	buy track

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During the first week of 2003, the Mendoza Line packed their bags in anticipation of their first ever-overseas appearances in London. It has been frequently observed of the Mendoza Line that they are never short of baggage, and this instance proved no exception: between the unexpected death of longtime inspiration Joe Strummer and the demoralizing inevitability of the looming Iraq invasion, it felt to the band as though the very planet itself was slumping beneath the millstone burden of forces far beyond their control. The sense of inertia was not in any way aided by Shannon, who had prepared seven separate pieces of luggage as well her "carryall".

For this most inward looking (some would offer "self-obsessed") of musical enterprises, the experience of traveling to foreign shores during a tumultuous time in modern history was both an impetus and a mandate to turn their vaunted skill as songwriters towards the outside world. The resulting album "Fortune" features an astonishing series of detailed narratives, some told from the point Americans traveling abroad in 2003, and others from the perspective of recent immigrants to the United States. Interspersed with biting cultural commentary and (of course) a little romance, the resulting work is inspiring and intoxicating and a little exotic.

"Fortune" renders it's serious thematic content with buoyant good humor and infectious tunefulness, underscoring the peculiar alchemy which makes the Mendoza Line both funnier and much more poignant then all but a very few of their contemporaries in the indie rock and folk genres. For the many critics and fans that treasured the Mendoza Line's last release "Lost in Revelry" in 2002, "Fortune" will both redouble and expand upon their admiration for a band whose rare vintage somehow improves with each passing year. And for those pundits who remained unconvinced, "Fortune" is inarguable evidence of the Mendoza Line's deserved status in the highest echelons of American music. Where "Lost in Revelry" was a document of wayward and abandoned souls searching for any direction but down, "Fortune" is a hopeful and exuberant picture of a bright light at the end of a long tunnel.

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released August 10, 2004

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The Mendoza Line was formed during the middle 90's in Athens, GA and relocated to Brooklyn, NY in 1999.

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