2012-12-11 22:19
NASNO
The Staves - Dead & Born & Grown 2012 [Indie/Folk]
<img src="http://media.thelineofbestfit.com/wp-content/media/2012/11/the-staves-dead-born-grown.jpg"><br>Artist: The Staves<br>Album: Dead & Born & Grown<br>Bitrate: 223kbps avg<br>Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz<br>Label: Atlantic<br>Genre: Folk<br>Size: 77.31 megs<br>PlayTime: 0h 46min 03sec total<br>Rip Date: 2012-12-11<br>Store Date: 2012-12-11<br><br>Track List:<br>--------<br>01. Wisely & Slow 3:38<br>02. Gone Tomorrow 3:27<br>03. The Motherlode 4:23<br>04. Pay Us No Mind 4:12<br>05. Facing West 2:39<br>06. In The Long Run 2:45<br>07. Dead & Born & Grown 2:53<br>08. Winter Trees 3:37<br>09. Tongue Behind My Teeth 3:27<br>10. Mexico 4:06<br>11. Snow 3:53<br>12. Eagle Song 7:03<br><br>Release Notes:<br>--------<br><br><br>Dead & Born & Grown marks the first time that esteemed producer Glyn Johns ?<br>noted for work with The Beatles and the Stones, amongst others ?and his son<br>Ethan (Laura Marling, Ryan Adams, etc) have worked on the same project: an<br>alliance all the more remarkable for both men being individually attracted to<br>The Staves.<br><br>It's not hard to tell why. The acappella harmonies of the three Staveley-Taylor<br>sisters on the opening "Wisely & Slow" have such sweet clarity, blending country<br>charm with the playful insouciance of The Andrews Sisters, that resistance seems<br>impossible.<br><br>Wisely, the Johns afford the voices plenty of space, with just an organ drone<br>fading quietly in after a minute, as the sisters muse upon the fate of a<br>bereaved woman, asking, "Why is it you whisper when you really need to yell?"<br>It's as perfect and precious as a Faberg?trinket, and it establishes a style,<br>and a quality, that's repeated throughout the album. Not to mention a theme: on<br>"Gone Tomorrow", the sweet sorrow of parting is crystallised in harmony over<br>fingerstyle guitar, placid drums and organ; in "Tongue Behind My Teeth", a<br>fonder farewell is mapped out in a cantering jangle of guitars and layered<br>counterpoint harmonies; and with "Snow", the warm jangle serves as a quilt<br>against the blanketing snow of separation.<br><br>Hailing from Watford, The Staves are like a distillation of all that's best<br>about the folk heritages of England and America. On "Winter Trees", their voices<br>have that cold, sharp precision born of the Anglo folk tradition; while "In The<br>Long Run" presents a more American flavour, with the simple purity of the guitar<br>recalling Simon & Garfunkel, and their harmonies embodying the innocence of West<br>Coast hippie idealism.<br><br>The two traditions come together perhaps most strikingly on the languid, drowsy<br>"Pay Us No Mind", where antique diction ?"tarry" and "thee", etc ?is suddenly<br>exploded by the expletive in the line, "I don't give a fuck." But the real<br>surprise is that it doesn't fracture the song at all, so adeptly do the girls<br>negotiate the change. Magical stuff<br><br><a href="http://pan.baidu.com/share/link?shareid=147241&uk=3509275791">http://pan.baidu.com/share/link?shareid=147241&uk=3509275791</a><br><br><br><br>
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