2012-7-1 06:11
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[推]Tristan Prettyman - Cedar And Gold (提前) (2012) [Pop/Folk]
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Tristan Prettyman - Cedar & Gold
Label.........................: Capitol
Genre.........................: Pop
StoreDate.....................: Sep-25-2012
Source........................: CDDA
Grabber.......................: Exact Audio Copy (Secure Mode)
Encoding Scheme...............: Lame 3.98.4 V0 VBR Joint-Stereo
Size..........................: 81.97 MB
Total Playing Time............: 49:44
Release Notes:
SoCal singer/songwriter Tristan Prettyman has announced that her
forthcoming album will be titled "Cedar and Gold." The new project --
Prettyman's third full length release -- is her first since 2008's
"Hello."
Instead of capitalizing on the attention and immediately making plans to
record a third album after wrapping two years of touring in support of
"Hello," Prettyman took an extended break during which she traveled the
globe, had surgery to remove polyps on her vocal cords, got engaged to
her long-term boyfriend, Jason Mraz, dealt with the pain of his ending
the engagement, and eventually questioned whether she even wanted to be
a musician at all.
"I was really burnt out and uninspired, so I decided to take some time
off," Prettyman says. "I went to Bali, Australia, and Europe and kind of
went crazy. Life went from all these obligations to eating good food,
meeting amazing people, and flowing with the wind. Then when I got back
and tried to sing again, we found the polyps, so I had surgery and had
to recover. Through it all, I was one foot in and one foot out of
whether I wanted to do music at all. I had periods of time where I was
numb and immune to feeling. My walls were up really high and I was on my
guard. Then this fairy-tale picture of what my life could have been was
set on fire. That brought all my walls down; it was a relief to finally
feel something again."
Prettyman chronicles the experience on her new album, the raw,
emotionally charged "Cedar and Gold," which finds her sifting through
the wreckage of her relationship and emerging stronger on the other
side. "I started writing songs from a place that was so deep and honest,
where I didn't hold anything back," she says. "It felt so good. I was
like, 'This is what music is about - being able to release what is
trapped inside of you.' Whenever anything ached or caused me pain, I'd
tell myself, 'Save it for the record.'"
With an artistry that lies in her finely etched lyrical details and
intimate vocal performances, Prettyman spares no one, including herself,
on songs like "Say Anything," "I Was Gonna Marry You," "Come Clean,"
"Glass Jar," and "Never Say Never," which ends a heartbreaking
spoken-word outro: "You can't start a fire in the pouring rain."
Prettyman wrote several of the songs with Dave Hodges, whom she first
met the morning after a particularly emotional night. "I go meet Dave
and I'm late and I'm crying," she says. "I'm just a ball of snot, like,
'Hi, I'm Tristan and I'm a mess.'" That session yielded the completion
of the album's opening track "Say Anything" - an open-hearted tune about
finding freedom in letting go. The second session resulted in the
no-holds-barred "I Was Gonna Marry You." "It was like, 'Wow, I'm getting
really transparent here and being really specific,'" Prettyman recalls.
"But once I walked through the door of honesty there was no telling
where I was going. I'd never spoken out before about the way it really
was, but I found myself saying 'Screw it, I'm going to tell the whole
story.'"
As intense as some of the songs may be, the mood is tempered not only by
playful, lighthearted tunes like first single "My Oh My" ("about someone
still having their hand on you and you playing that game with them
because it's fun, even though you know it's not good for you and it's
going to backfire"), "The Rebound," "Quit You," and the sexy, smoldering
"Bad Drug," but also by the album's warm, earthy sound, which Prettyman
created with her producer Greg Wells (Adele, Katy Perry), who plays
piano, bass, drums, and some guitar on the album. "Greg told me he was
not going to hold my hand through this; I had to convince him I wanted
it," she says. "He forced me to step into really being a musician and
owning what I do. Once I did that, I got super creative and the songs
started coming from a different place. It was a very intuitive process."
When mixing on Cedar and Gold wrapped, Prettyman went back to her hotel
room and burst into tears. "I couldn't believe it was done," she says.
"I got everything out. It no longer lived in me. It felt like a weight
had been lifted off my shoulders. I finally felt free."
"Cedar and Gold" (whose title refers to both the cedar walls and
ceilings in the home where she recovered from her heartbreak and the
gold she spun from her situation in the songs) is an album that manages
to be both deeply personal, but highly relatable to anyone who's had the
ground collapse under them and fought their way back to healing. "It's
actually a very hopeful album in a lot of ways, which I think is a
common theme in all my records," she says. "The idea that 'things may be
a bit crappy right now, but let's make the most of it' is very
reflective of me as a person and my outlook on life. I always try to
look at the bigger picture of why something is happening. And I love
that I was able to go so deep and dig around in places I never thought I
could access and still remain hopeful at the end of the day."
Thanks Taylor Swift for the hookup!
Tracklisting
01. Say Anything 3:57
02. I Was Gonna Marry You 3:11
03. My Oh My 3:40
04. Unconditionally 3:24
05. Quit You 3:08
06. Bad Drug 2:50
07. Come Clean 3:54
08. Glass Jar 4:52
09. When You Come Down 3:24
10. Deepest Ocean Blue 5:31
11. Second Chance 3:33
12. Never Say Never 5:53
13. The Rebound 2:27
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