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Jay Bennet
Magnificent Defeat
Jay Bennett was a significant force behind the evolving sound, increasingly mature songwriting, and critical success of the twice Grammy-nominated Wilco, making significant contributions to their albums Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and Being There. The Magnificent Defeat features 13 tracks culled from over 70 written and recorded for the record. The albums unique sound comes from the variety of instruments (and objects) used in the recording, including vintage instruments, toys with bells and a drum kit made of sheet metal. Jays unique musical vision, along with his incredible songwriting and production skills, come together to create his most accomplished work to date. -CP
Release Date: 09/26/06
Label: Rykodisc
Genre/Style: Country / Yaw'ternative
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Bobby Bare Jr
Longest Meow
For his latest record, Bobby Bare, Jr gathered ten friends, prepared for 16 days and belted out an 11 songs in 11 hours. Called The Longest Meow, no title could be farther from the blazing honky tonk collected on the album. The record opens with a whirring wind-up, cars and gears interlocking for a blast out of the gate. After about twenty seconds the guitars jaunt onto the hilarious “Heart Bionic”, a tale about a man who’s been through an emotional accident, but who’s now bounding for a comeback because the doctors “gave me a heart that is bionic / now all my love is supersonic.” “Demon Valley” continues his new celebration of love with puckers as a backbeat, lips popping where handclaps are usually placed. It’s perhaps “Uh Wuh Oh” that best sums up Bobby Bare, Jr’s philosophy on this record though – a resounding “whee.”
Throughout the record he guitars hop, skip and punch, mocking all that lacks verve. Though a number of songs showcase Bobby’s usual country-sad whining and pleading, overall the lackadaisical quality of the recording session has led to a freewheeling fun fest of lyrical taunts and hyperbolic guitars for which the “The Longest Howl” would have been a more appropriate name. For on this release Bobby Bare’s Young Criminals Starvation League has created a sweltering companion piece to the “barbaric yawp” Walt Whitman called for years ago. -SS
Release Date: 09/26/06
Label: Bloodshot Records
Genre/Style: Country / Yaw'ternative
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Emily Haines & Soft Skeleton
Knives Don't Have Your Back
You already know Emily Haines from her other band Metric, or maybe even Broken Social Scene. Now you will know her as an accomplished solo artist with her debut full length, Knives Don't Have You Back.
All songs are beautiful at the core, with Haines' cool and sultry voice and her elegant piano, she invokes thoughts of a beautiful woman, smoking behind a grand piano, with a bottle of Pinot, which is something I would love to come home to. The Soft Skeletons, a band comprise of members of BSS and Metric add elegant horns and string arrangements, to compliment Haines' gorgeous piano ballads.
For those of you, who wish this is as fun and danceable as Feist's album, will be a tad disappointed, for this is a sophisticated and and mature release.
This is the first official solo album from the frontwoman of Metric. -JW
Release Date: 09/26/06
Label: Last Gang
Genre/Style: Pop
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Ladyfinger (NE)
Heavy Hands
Lady fingers are long oval shaped cookies, often found in the Italian dessert, tiramisu. Ladyfinger (NE) are four guys that make brazen and deafening rock 'n roll music for people with bad tattoos and PBR diets.
Ladyfinger (NE) (which stands for Nebraska), are driven by Chris Machmuller blustering vocals and Jamie Massey's thunderous guitar work, they help forge a sound that is a combination of the trashiness and swagger of Rye Coalition with the reckless abandonment of Queens of the Stone Age. In other words, this muscle car of a group and are poised and ready to drink you last beer and smack your girlfriend on the ass. YES!!
These guys are definitely boasting the biggest cock on Saddle Creek lineup and maybe, the whole Omaha scene in general. -JW
Release Date: 09/26/06
Label: Saddle Creek
Genre/Style: Pop / Rock
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Lemonheads
Self-Titled
The Lemonheads are back! Actually, Evan Dando is back, and he's brought with him two Descendants vets, (bill Stevenson and Karl Alverez) and J.Mascis in an understated role at the foot of the bed. My only previous experience of Mr. Dando is through his 2003 solo release Baby I'm Bored, apparently released after he recovered from a years long bout with substance abuse and general fall from his throne as a prince of critically acclaimed pop rock in the early 90s. It was an album of soul-baring confessional song writing and polished studio musicianship that proved Dando still had something to offer after his years out of the limelight.
This self-titled album is a perfect expression of the songs contained herein - sweer on the outside, and sour on the inside. The sunny, toe-tapping pop rock frames lyrics of discontented fracturing relationships and downright dark adn isolated moodiness. ("Baby's Home" has lines about jealous shotgun murders at the coda of it's portrait of infidelity.) I want to create a new genre of music for this - in the veins of recent Bouncing Souls and Social Distortion, it's an upbeat, optimistic poppy punk-rock sound, produced in a slick, technically proficient style. It's the sound of mature veterans making a certain type of music because that's their career, and saying less, but in a more personal voice. Dando's voice is a resigned and sedated rearview mirror gazing, a mood of regret covered by a forced volume and boisterousness.
One of the best songs on the album and the first single, is Stevenson's (not Dando's) song, "Become the Enemy." It relates the tale of bad times in a marriage caused by financial difficulties due to the narrator's lack of an employable skill. This is the second song on a comeback album starring a has-been whose songs on this offering are mostly high-school level poetry sung with effortlessly baritone beautiful melody, and backed up by a grade-A punk veteran rhythm section playing for their milk money. Dando writes quality songs, records them with expert musicianship and sprinkles them with those moments of aural serendipity that proves that he's no third-rate songwriter, but always leaves me wanting more, expecting more. (By the way, my favorite song of his is the last song on 2003's Baby I'm Bored "In the Grass All Wine Colored", which has one line of lyrics, and a grand total of nine words. And it's a fantastic snapshot of a time and a feeling.
The Lemonheads is a good, quality record, but each successive release just makes me wonder what could have been, had the road to this point not been littered with drug abuse and wasted time. On the other hand, if the "new and improved" Lemonheads ever come to town, I'll be in line, looking forward to a fun energetic show to get drunk at, and forget about all the bitterness that is the subtitle just beneath the band's name. And that's exactly what it's made for. -PM
Release Date: 09/26/06
Label: Vagrant
Genre/Style: College Rock / Yaw'ternative
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Lucero
Rebels Rogues & Sworn Brother
David Lowery's production brings sharpness and focus to Lucero's sound and 'I Can Get Us Out Of Here' is the legitimate radio single that the band has always hinted at. Legendary Memphis session player and recent Cat Power sideman Rick Steff contributes piano and organ throughout adding a shimmering sonic wrapping to Lucero's hardest rocking and most tuneful album to date. The lead track evokes the spirit of vintage Springsteen while another recalls Wilco's Summerteeth-era into power pop and vintage synthesizers. Other tracks showcase singer Ben Nichols southern gothic fatalism. -CP
Release Date: 09/26/06
Label: Liberty & Lamen
Genre/Style: Country / Punk / Yaw'ternative
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Demetri Martin
These Are Jokes
This comic has a seemingly endless supply of endearingly off kilter one liners and an over-active imagination. Hes one of the most unique voices in comedy today and has written for performed on Conan O Brien Letterman and Carson Daly. Hes the latest correspondent on The Daily Show with his critiques on pop culture. In 2003 he taped his first stand-up special Comedy Central Presents Demetri Martin which remains one of the highest rated half hours on the network. This release puts all his best material on one CD. The DVD compiles the Comedy Central Presents and a bunch of other secret stuff. -CP
Release Date: 09/26/06
Label: Comedy Central
Genre/Style: Comedy
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My Morning Jacket
OKONOS
The first time I fell in love with My Morning Jacket was when I saw them
perform on Austin City Limits, so it is only fitting that the first
article I write about the band be on another live performance. Okonokos,
is the odd title of an extraordinary two disc live album. 21 songs, no
filler.
The first thing I noticed about Okonokos, is that if it were not for the
cheering and variation of the songs, the quality of this recording could
pass for a studio project. Clean, crisp, well mixed sound quality is
important to me, and is over accomplished here. This is not to say that
the band is simply rehashing the songs off of their albums, in fact, not
one of the songs is performed exactly the same way as they were recorded.
Which is also an important quality of a live album.
You see, live albums are very risky business. Many times when a band puts
out a live album, people/critics tend to think it is a sign of weakness,
showing an inability to come up with new material, therefore throwing out
a live disc will keep fans busy while the band members joggle there memory
for new tunes. I do not think that is the case here. I have not yet seen
the packaging for this album, but just based on the sound quality, set
choice, and sheer power that all come through flawless on this record, I
think that the band put a lot of time and effort into this piece of live
art.
MMJ has a beautiful way of finding that perfect point in live music. The
point where they can take a guitar solo and get as much out of it as they
need, and cut it off right before it becomes too much. Off The Record is a
perfect example of this, the band is noodling around, experimenting with
their own material and it is all wonderful, and right before you say to
yourself "all right, when are they going to break back into the song" its
there. There is a fine line between a good live band, and an overdone
jamband, MMJ knows exactly what they are doing on stage.
All of what I have said is useful information before purchasing the album,
but I think this next part may be the most important to keep in mind when
you are shopping around. Many bands have a set list that has a heavy
hitter here and there, and ends in a big bang, always leave the audience
wanting more so to speak. My Morning Jacket does not play by those rules.
With almost a decade worth of material, every song is worthy of the
statement "Ive always wanted to hear that song live" and every song is
performed to its highest potential. MMJ really does go all out on every
single track, making the first 5 songs just as exciting and pleasing to
the ears as the last 5 songs.
A live release does not get more solid than this one. Its like the most
well put together "Best Of.." album you could think of, but better because
of the variation in each tune. I highly reccomend this album to long time
fans, or to new fans that need a crash course in the history of the band. -BF
Release Date: 09/26/06
Label: ATO
Genre/Style: Pop / Rock
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Seirra Leone's Refugee All Stars
Living Like A Refugee
“It makes me happy that people from different countries
and cultures have identified with what we are singing, specifically
our songs that speak out against the dangers of war, dreadful
diseases, dishonesty, and greed, and most importantly our songs that
celebrate peace, unity, morality, and love.” – Reuben, Refugee All Stars
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars come out of the war torn West
African nation of Guinea. The story of their survival in refugee
camps is incredible. With busted up guitars and rusted sound systems,
the group began to sing and write songs. Filmmakers happened to come
upon the band and their story has since become a film that has won
awards around the country such as the Best Documentary from the AFI
Film Festival and runner up at the 2006 SXSW Film Festival. Thanks to
their film, they have been given the opportunity to record their
first album for release and “Living Like a Refugee” is a triumph and
a welcome addition to music collections that don’t give enough play
to traditional African styles.
All the praise you are bound to hear about this album from every
publication imaginable is going to all be true. The amount of
instrumentation never gets out of control; the styles of music vary
to not create a dull testament to what they are really about and the
message is one that will uplift even the most cynical of all of us.
You can’t help, if you take the album in as a whole, but to feel good
about yourself and, if you help your community and are involved in
the issues of this world, even better. The Refugee All Stars are for
change, in the homeland and the whole world but they admire all the
people around the world for their support in and around their country.
Mixtures of reggae, blues, African tribal hymns, pop and folk all
make an appearance on this disc. Reuben, the lead vocalist and
writer, has crafted an album that, over the sensational musicianship,
appeals to his admiration for peace and all those who have come to
help, his love of homeland, which in his songs he hopes refugees will
find their love of nation again and go back home, and the hard work
that has paid off being a refugee. He also laments about the evils of
war, warns about false prophets in his native land, and finds time to
condemn a deceitful lover. The place the music is coming from is
refreshing. Personal strife and political turmoil doesn’t get
portrayed from Americans the way it does from this group, and for
obvious reasons. They have lived like a refugee so they can tell us
what it was all about.
Obviously a healing process for the entire group, this album is going
to give them a lot of clout in the music industry and hopefully the
goals set out by “Living Like a Refugee” are achieved. All eyes are
going to be on this band again but they did not shy down from the
challenge and have recorded an outstanding album. There is so much to
say that has no place in this review. I tried my best to convey the
music the best I could. I tried to show his mission as best I could.
I went out on a limb with this album and came away changed. There is
other music out there; this is a great stepping stone. If the Refugee
All Stars only taught me one thing it would be: the world is at our
fingertips. -DS
Release Date: 09/26/06
Label: Anti
Genre/Style: Roots / Rock / Reggae
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Wolf Eyes
Human Animal
Human Animal closes with a track entitled “Noise Not Music,” a fitting closer for the unraveling of pyrotechnics found on Wolf Eyes’s latest. Wolf Eyes is three men on instruments that are inseparable not only from each other but from the scorched vocals as well. Occasionally a sax that sounds like it’s climbing out of a car-wreck creeps to the fore, occasionally a guitar bleeds noticeably, but for the most part the songs tumble over and over each other, blurred and charred into noise.
One of the quieter songs on the album, “Leper War,” sounds like a chamber for a convict to sit in, stewing, before he’s led out to walk the gangplank of a pirateship, punished by those for who the wrong is right. Traditional sound structures fall to shambles, but new rules rise up in their place. Swords are drawn all over the record, tensions between soft-noise and hard-noise are splayed out, fear is perhaps an undercurrent, but more deadly is lack of exploration. The guys in Wolf Eyes aren’t people you’d ever want to run into in the dark, but on a radio in a dark room they can be a tantalizing scare, the music version of a horror movie taunt. -SS
Release Date: 09/26/06
Label: Sub Pop
Genre/Style: Experimental / Noise
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Various Artists
Eccentric Soul: Mighty Mike Lenaburg
Eccentric Soul: Mighty Mike Lenaburg is a deep dig through the photo albums and tape libraries of Phoenix's second family of soul. Released on a half dozen local and national labels throughout the 60s and 70s, Mike Lenaburg's productions represent that wrong side of the desert sound. A melange of Tejano psychedelia, flutey funk, horny soul, and fistfight doo-wop, his recordings are feral, unhinged, mind melters. "The Quarrel" alone will put your friends in a state of unease and fascination at the same time. Lenaburg's soul is raw and bleeding and just waiting to be discovered by discerning listeners like you. -CP
Release Date: 09/26/06
Label: Numero Group
Genre/Style: Soul / R & B
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Botch
Unifying Themes Redux
With fancy orange artwork, Botch returns, sort of, with Hydrahead reissuing the classic “Unifying Themes Redux;” a collection of Botch’s “Unifying Themes of Sex, Death and Religion” EP as well as compilation and unreleased tracks. Botch set the standard for “heavy,” and I mean heavy, music back in the mid 90’s and that standard is still yet to be leveled or even fulfilled in the mid-2000’s. It’s not that being heavy needed to be a sonic force slammed upon unsuspecting listeners nor does being heavy consist of the best breakdowns. Botch was heavy because Botch was creative. They used this style to craft songs, not just throw breakdowns together. Botch is rooted in the past, but in a way that without understanding Botch is to not fully come to the future of what heavy music is supposed to be about. “American Nervoso” was Botch’s standard setting piece and 1999’s “We Are the Romans” is still Botch’s masterpiece, but something about “Unifying Themes Redux,” the capturing of a band at their most raw, least glamorous, and debatably, their height, is how one can truly begin to understand where the bands of today try, but cannot pull off what Botch did so effortlessly.
The songs are a good place to start. “Unifying Themes Redux” reintroduces and reinvigorates like it was 1996 all over again. “God vs. Science,” “Inch By Inch” and “Stupid Me” still hit with the intensity of a decade gone. Creating a mood and sticking to it was always part of Botch’s mentality. “The Opera Song” based on Carmina Burana’s “O’fortuna” is pure execution that “heavy” bands don’t accomplish today. Subtlety is the name of the game and keeps everyone coming back for another listen.
Botch did it all first. Incorporation of styles, unifying the themes of their music and art, as well as providing a stepping stone to furthering the realms of hardcore and metal music, among other things. Bands in the hardcore community are plagued with imitation without the flattery. Singing then screaming then singing is somewhat of a joke to the modern times with “heavy” by today’s standards settling to be mainstream. “Unifying Themes Redux” is not a joke. It’s not set to the backdrop of myspace and mp3’s, four men got together and moved a nation around the dance floors and worked for respect. Therefore, it seems that “Unifying Themes Redux” is nothing more than respect, from those who came before and only an indication it seems of where we’re headed.
Math-core, hardcore, metal, thrash, post-hardcore; they really have every sort of definition on lock. Dillinger Escape Plan are compared a lot because of the mathematical timing elements, Isis has been compared because of chugging rhythms. Obviously we all know bands that have used that stepping stone and moved beyond Botch but “heavy” is only a parody of itself now. But why the history lesson? Why describe who Botch was to you? Because that’s the point. Botch wasn’t just a hit song or a sick ass breakdown. It was a movement that got kids out writing songs and moving their minds into directions that Botch never got the chance to explore. “Unifying Themes Redux” is the heart and soul of the movement. Rarities, compiled tracks and outtakes are the heart of every band. They show the best and the worst of times. No moment in history, no trickery of a production studio. Unity. It shows unity. Death, sex, religion and beyond take Botch’s record to new heights in its re-release. Basically, most have already heard this album but another listen is certainly due; time hasn’t yet aged Botch. -DS
Release Date: 09/26/06
Label: Hydra Head
Genre/Style: Metal / Post Hardcore
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Hugh Masekela presents
The Chisa Years 1965-75
This collection is hot. Not a particularly insightful or descriptive observation, I know, but its true. This is a hip shaker, a headbanger, a sole shuffler, all that and it’s very good. It opens with a slightly misleading killer, “Afro Beat Blues” performed by Masekela and Ojah. The track is inspired by Masekela’s meetings and friendship with the great Fela Kuti, and shares a strain of deep, sinuous funk with Fela’s music. The track does not, however, sound like an emulation of Afrobeat. Masekela does it his own way throughout, and though the roots and influences of his native South Africa are always present, Masekela’s recordings are anything but purist, providing a steady stream of invigorating surprises.
Masekela, a prodigious trumpeter, left South Africa to study music and make his name in New York jazz circles at a great time, the early sixties. In 1965 he moved to California and started the Chisa label, recording a number of South African musicians he met in New York in ensembles he composed for and often played trumpet with including The Zulus, Ojah, Letta Mbulu, Baranta and Johannesburg Street Band, all of whom appear here. The offensive and belittling “world music” label does not apply here, implying as it does a sort of fetishized recreation of “authentic indigenous music” or some such hogwash. What Masekela was after, and achieved tremendously, was a living, modern African American music (using that term before Jesse Jackson monopolized the meaning).
The songs collected here lean towards the more traditional South African side of Chisa’s output, which is impressive considering from an African foundation, they are liable to jump off in several unexpected directions drawing as much from jazz, rock and pop as their underlying formats. Letta Mbulu’s soaring character vocals recall Diana Ross, if not in English. Many of the lyrics and chants, in fact, evoke golden age R&B and pop harmonies as much as traditional call and response. Baranta tracks such as “Tepo” feature serious psychedelic guitar chops by Emile Walsh. “Aredze,” performed by the Zulus, starts as a bare chant and builds, eventually transmogrifying into the best African Surf Rock ditty ever. Perhaps most impressive, aside from the inspired compositions and amazing performances, is how good this album sounds for the period. Instruments pop with crisp clarity or perfectly buzz together, each element with its own texture placed thoughtfully into the mix. This may have been lost were it not for an extraordinary digital mastering, which is likely to some degree thanks to the kind folks at BBE Records, home of copious production masters in the excellent “Beat Generation” series. -GB
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: BBE
Genre/Style: R&B / Soul / Funk
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Myka Nyne
Citrus Sessions
Myka Nyne fka Mikah Nine, was a co-founder of the legendary Freestyle Fellowship. Many a youngblood quickly asks who on planet Earth is Myka Nyne. On a mainstream level the members of Freestyle Fellowship, which include the phenomenal Aceyalone, have never really sold any records. This writer cannot remember when any of their songs made it on the radio. Yet MCs like Myka Nyne along with cohorts have influenced left coast groups such as the Pharcyde, Souls of Mischief, and several others. Since their 1991 debut, To Whom It May Concern, Myka Nyne has worked with several artists maintaining an extensive discography.
Myka Nyne has a very orthodox flow. He can skat like any jazz artist. His tempo and rhyme patterns can change at the drop of the dime. Unlike several MCs, a studio recording does capture his energy and passion. For Freestyle Fellowship fans, this album is vintage Myka Nyne. Without the limitations of working with a group or collaborating with another artist, Myka gets very busy.
What makes Citrus Sessions enjoyable is the subject matter. Myka Nyne is a formidable MC in his own right yet he does not spend time on braggadocio rhyming. Myka Nyne will have the listener chuckling with songs like “Tabloids” and “Me and My Girl.” In the latter, Nyne lists the several reasons why he needs to break up with his current girlfriend. In “Streaming,” Nyne discusses the negative side of an emotional reaction in several instances. In “Citrus District,” a party joint, Nyne describes the scene in vivid detail making the listener wish he was there. Nyne discusses the ways to get over the system in “Everybody Gets Down.”
The album stands at twenty tracks so there are a few filler songs but most of the album is high quality hip hop with a little spoken word and neo soul. This explains the title. Nyne does not overwhelm the listener with thousands of cameos from his homies. Most of the tracks are straight Myka Nyne. This writer doubts that Myka Nyne will see platinum plaques from this solo effort but it sounds great in the deck. -DR
Release Date:08/08/06
Label: Citrus Recordings
Genre/Style: Hip Hop
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Decibully
Sing! Out America
In just two short years, Milwaukee's Decibully has quickly earned a reputation as one of the hardest working bands on the Polyvinyl roster with their polarizing and captivating live performances and a tour history that rivals only Mates of State as far as miles racked up on a tour van and trailer. Sing Out, America! is a direct by-product of Decibully's hectic tour schedule. Their third album, the first to be written entirely by the band as a cohesive septet from start to finish, is the most consistent and representative work of the band to date. Electric and acoustic guitars soar alongside banjo, multiple percussion, lap steel, Rhodes, and a rhythm section unparalleled in its ability to hold seven musicians together at once. Decibully have pulled no punches here. From start-to-finish, Sing Out, America! will capture the minds and seduce the ears of those who appreciate superb instrumentation and songwriting while the album's beautiful artwork (designed by Chris Strong) will manage to capture the eyes of casual record bin browsers. Handily one of Polyvinyl's best releases for the Winter/Spring 2005 season. -CP
Release Date: 03/08/05
Label: Polyvinyl
Genre/Style: Folk / Pop
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Greg Gaffin
Cold As Clay
In many ways Cold as the Clay is a highly unconventional record. First of all it combines traditional American old-time music with original rock compositions. Secondly it’s offered up by Greg Graffin, an artist best known for his work with Bad Religion as one of the most successful and prolific punk rock performers in the world. Lastly, it was recorded and mixed in accordance with the raw integrity of it’s origins in only eight days, with a group of talented musicians who had never played together before, utilizing inspired live takes and not much else in the way of studio contrivances. Happily, the results are as gratifying artistically as they are unconventional conceptually. In the liner notes Greg put it this way:
“We set out create a record that would honor the legacy of American music, and it is my hope that we were able to capture a lasting musical moment. I wanted to show how my work with Bad Religion was informed by other, seemingly disparate and unconventional genres of music that at first glance may appear to have nothing to do with punk. My hope is that this project will live to pass along the tradition of American songwriting to others long after I am buried and cold as the clay.” -CP
Release Date: 07/11/06
Label: Anti
Genre/Style: Country / Folk
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Tom Brosseau
Empty Houses Are Lonely
A collection of highlights from his recorded history to date, augmented by several new recordings, mostly recorded and produced by Gregory Page in San Diego and Poway, Empty Houses Are Lonely works as an introduction to Tom Brosseau's plaintive, eloquent and timeless music. It is a representation of Brosseau's early days in San Diego, Poway and Los Angeles, where he was affected by the various apartments, houses, rooms and hotels where he lived. Brosseau's natural songwriting talent is influenced by such artists as Nick Drake, Woody Guthrie and Cole Porter -- he can be hauntingly moody and atmospheric, and manages to avoid the typical verse-chorus-bridge song structures in his writing. The most notable ingredient in Brosseau's work is his voice which sounds eerily like a high-lonesome reincarnation of Jeff Buckley. High, limber and sometimes vibrato-tinged, it seems to hover between the masculine and the feminine. -CP
Release Date: 04/11/06
Label: Fat Cat
Genre/Style: Folk
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The Information
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Gang of Losers
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The Crane Wife
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Sam's Town
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