The First Line (album)

This article is about the Marcellus Hall album. For the Bob Stewart album, see First Line (album).

The First Line
Studio album by Marcellus Hall
Released	February 2011 (February 2011)
Genre	Garage Folk
Length	48:49
Label	Glacial Pace[1]
Producer	Marcellus Hall
Marcellus Hall chronology
More 4 Track Recordings (1996) The First Line (2011) Afterglow (2013)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Now	[2]

The First Line is an album by Marcellus Hall.[3] It is his first full-length album and was released by Glacial Pace in 2011.[4] The album, which includes a booklet of drawings by Marcellus, has been compared to the likes of Robyn Hitchcock.

Critical reception

Exclaim! wrote: "Like many dusty blues punks before him it's the mantle of Dylan that Hall has chosen as armour, at least in terms of sound, though it's the sweetly poisoned inkwell of Jonathan Richman or Robyn Hitchcock from which his lyrics flow."[5] The Observer wrote that "Hall lets the sounds of his city seep into the recordings; the tracks sound simultaneously organic and artificially distressed."[6]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The First Line"	Marcellus Hall
2.	"Star Position"	Marcellus Hall
3.	"Neon, Not The Night"
4.	"Laughing With You"	Marcellus Hall
5.	"It's My Life"	Marcellus Hall
6.	"Don't Go"
7.	"During The War"
8.	"One Drop Of Rain"	Marcellus Hall
9.	"Back Where I Started"
10.	"Broken Phone"	Marcellus Hall
11.	"When You Can"
12.	"Wishing My Heart Was Stone"	Marcellus Hall
13.	"One Of Us"

References

1. "Marcellus Hall - The First Line". Glacial Pace Recordings.
2. Greene, Sarah (February 17, 2011). "Marcellus Hall - The First Line".
3. Miller, Eric T. (May 23, 2011). "Q&A With Marcellus Hall".
4. Mouly, Françoise (July 1, 2012). Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See. Abrams. ISBN 9781613123218 – via Google Books.
5. "Marcellus Hall The First Line". exclaim.ca.
6. "Hank Williams meets the Modern Lovers (+ a free MP3!)". February 10, 2011.