description Beulah - When Your Heartstrings Break Overview
When Your Heartstrings Break is a 1999 album by Beulah, an American indie pop band associated with the Elephant 6 collective. Released by Sugar Free Records, it expands the group's guitar-based songs with horns, strings, keyboards, and layered vocal arrangements. The record reflects the collective's interest in melodic 1960s pop and homegrown experimentation, while presenting a larger ensemble sound than Beulah's debut album.
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When did Beulah release When Your Heartstrings Break, and which label issued it?
It is Beulah's second studio album, released on March 9, 1999, by Sugar Free Records. The sessions took place from May through September 1998, with Bill Swan and Steve LaFollette producing. [Album reference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Your_Heartstrings_Break)
How is its sound different from Beulah's first album, Handsome Western States?
Compared with 1997's Handsome Western States, it moves from a lo-fi approach toward a denser mid-fi production style. Horns, strings, keyboards, layered vocals, several dozen instruments, and 18 additional musicians give the songs a much fuller ensemble sound.
Which songs are central to When Your Heartstrings Break?
The 11-track album includes 'Emma Blowgun's Last Stand,' 'Sunday Under Glass,' and 'If We Can Land a Man on the Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart.' 'Emma Blowgun's Last Stand' was also released as an Australian EP in 2000.
Was When Your Heartstrings Break released through Elephant 6?
Beulah was associated with the Elephant 6 collective, but this album was released by Sugar Free Records. The band's earlier album Handsome Western States appeared through the Elephant 6 network in 1997.
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