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- Artist: The High Llamas
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- Release Date: 1992
- Total Time: 40:11
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Rock
Review
Often passed over in the the High Llamas' canon (even the liner notes of the reissue go out of their way to reassure that things are a little rough), 1992's Santa Barbara is nevertheless an important formative record that will please and interest many admirers of the band. There's an emphasis on pre-acid house English pop ("Market Traders"), Out of Time-era R.E.M. ("Put Yourself Down"), and an orchestral touch that would reappear later in albums like Cold and Bouncy. "Period Music" pokes out with verses lifted from XTC and a closing, layered, almost dream pop refrain, but non-fans may wonder about the band's bored and serious approach toward Byrds-ian acoustica. ~ Dean Carlson, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Put Yourself Down | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (4:22) |
| Birdies Sing | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (4:43) |
| Banking on Karma | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (4:42) |
| Market Traders | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (6:08) |
| Travel | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (4:43) |
| The Taximan's Daughter | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (3:51) |
| Period Music | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (5:14) |
| Holland | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (4:04) |
| Apricots | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (2:21) |
