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█ ARTIST: Lake Forest █
█ TITLE: Silver Skies █
█ LABEL: Verite █
█ GENRE: Acoustic █
█ BITRATE: 224kbps avg █
█ PLAYTIME: 0h 44min total █
█ RELEASE DATE: 2012-00-00 █
█ RIP DATE: 2012-02-22 █
█ URL: █
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█ 01. Cathedral 2:09 █
█ 02. Autumn Skies 3:23 █
█ 03. Whispers 3:56 █
█ 04. Untitled 4:42 █
█ 05. Escape The Moon 3:08 █
█ 06. Teepee 1:56 █
█ 07. Coming Through Slaughter 4:43 █
█ 08. Birds Of Prey 4:34 █
█ 09. Silver Stars 5:04 █
█ 10. Ohio 4:27 █
█ 11. The Autumn Sun Will Set The Land On Fire 6:46 █
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█ Lake Forest is the introspective and sometimes melancholic folk music of █
█ Will Whitwham, singer and songwriter of the Wilderness of Manitoba. Last █
█ winter, in between tours with the band, Whitwham decided to write and █
█ record a song per day and see how long it took to get something he felt █
█ could be a snapshot of a period in time. The winter was a catalyst as █
█ every season can be. ôI'm always moved the most by music that is really █
█ emotive above all else because that's the only way I find it can really █
█ stay with and sometimes haunt you.ö █
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█ After that, Whitwham wanted to send it out to a few close friends to █
█ hear their thoughts. Then, once revisiting it all, he wanted to put it █
█ out because he felt that the songs formed a real cohesiveness through █
█ this challenge; as though they could only be released if they were all █
█ together. It definitely captures the mood he was in and the sounds he █
█ really wanted to be creating at the time. He always prefers listening to █
█ a whole album by someone because then you get a wider perspective or █
█ series of moments rather than just one of them. █
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█ The Lake Forest name came from a place or a number of places that felt █
█ synchronistic, both internally and externally. One is the place in █
█ Illinois that Whitwham had read about in a book that moved him - Dave █
█ Egger's "A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius". Another is the name █
█ of a road up north near a place where his family has had a cottage since █
█ 1979 and is the only place he has recurring dreams of throughout his █
█ life. The last was an image in his mind of a frozen ground surrounded by █
█ evergreens. ôThis came to me in the form of a beautiful photograph a █
█ good friend of mine took which immediately became the album cover. It █
█ was very cold, surreal and moving all at onceö. █
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█ While remaining a member of the Wilderness of Manitoba, Lake Forest will █
█ always be an ongoing creative outlet for Whitwham whenever the mood and █
█ ideas come around. What separates Lake Forest is that it takes on a more █
█ sombre, melancholic tone with more sparse arrangements. ôI also feel █
█ like there is more room to experiment in playing with what exactly that █
█ 'sound' is when I'm on my own. It ultimately delves much further into █
█ the introspective songwriter territory rather than the collaborative █
█ band dynamic. I started making music alone and always find myself █
█ returning to it and creating that way again. I'm writing all the time █
█ and can never really fit it all into one project because I feel like █
█ there is so much music out there.ö █
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