The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid

The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
Studio album by Stars of the Lid
Released	October 29, 2001 (2001-10-29)
Genre	Ambient, minimalist, drone
Length	123:54
Label	Kranky
Producer	Brian McBride, Adam Wiltzie
Stars of the Lid chronology
Avec Laudenum (1999) The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (2001) And Their Refinement of the Decline (2007)

The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid is the sixth studio album by ambient drone music group Stars of the Lid. It was released in late 2001 on the Kranky label, on two CDs and three LPs. The album features long minimal, droning compositions created from heavily treated guitar, horn, flute, piano, and other classical instruments.

The second track, "Requiem for Dying Mothers, Part 2", features a sample from the final scene of Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker, where the character Monkey pushes a glass across a table by way of telekinesis as a dog whines and a train whistle blows in the distance.^[1] The third track, "Down 3", contains a sample from the soundtrack to John Frankenheimer's 1966 film Seconds.

The track "Gasfarming" includes a brief sample of a telephone dialing to Big Ed Hurley's voice (Everett McGill) the owner of Big Ed's Gas Farm from the 1990's television series Twin Peaks.^[2]