Release date: 08-05-2008

2008 9-Track vinyl Lp edition, pressing on 180 Gram Vinyl - The fifth album from the experimental electronica duo of M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel (best known in the past few years as Bjork's backing "band") takes a 21st century approach to 19th century themes. Members of Radar Brothers and Acetone guest, as does pianist David Grubbs. Sealed.

Tracks:
01  Regicide   
02  Zealous Order of Candied Knights 
03  Reconstruction  
04  Y.T.T.E. (Yield to Total Elation)  
05  For the Trees   
06  The Stars and Stripes Forever  Sousa 
07  Pelt and Holler  
08  The Struggle Against Unreality Begins 
09  For the Trees (Return)   

This is the second Matador album from the San Francisco duo who served as Bjork's backing band, scored gay porn movies, and most recently, are famed for their experiments mixing actual plastic surgery sounds with beats. "The Civil War" once again represents a total departure: beats meet folk/bluegrass, closely miked acoustic instruments, and honky-tonk mixed with highly unorthodox samples such as the pounding of blood in MC Schmidt's carotid artery. "The kind of thing that gives the avant-garde a good name. And the medical establishment a bad one"--NME.