This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That is the second album by Marnie Stern, released on October 7, 2008 on Kill Rock Stars. The album's title comes from an Alan Watts quotehttp://proxy.espn.com/chat/chatESPN?event_id=23708 in his work On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966), which was in turn a quotation from James Broughton's The Bard and the Harper (1965). Broughton also used the quote in his art film This Is It (1971).
Pitchfork named This Is It... the 44th greatest album of 2008.
Composition Alongside experimental rock and indie rock, This Is It takes on "gleeful, choppy, and ambitious" math rock.
Track listing "Prime" – 2:28 "Transformer" – 2:09 "Shea Stadium" – 3:38 "Ruler" – 3:52 "The Crippled Jazzer" – 4:19 "Steely" – 4:00 "The Package Is Wrapped" – 3:45 "Simon Says" – 3:20 "Vault" – 3:26 "Clone Cycle" – 3:32 "Roads? Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads" – 2:59 "The Devil Is in the Details" – 3:39
Personnel Marnie Stern – vocals, guitar, keyboards John-Reed Thompson – bass, keyboards, organ Zach Hill – drums, bass, keyboards, piano
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