Artist: Willy Mason
Album: Carry On
Bitrate: 229kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Fiction
Genre: Rock
Size: 64.90 megs
PlayTime: 0h 37min 22sec total
Rip Date: 2012-12-11
Store Date: 2012-12-03
Track List:
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01. What Is This 2:54
02. Pickup Truck 3:25
03. Talk Me Down 3:04
04. Restless Fugitive 6:19
05. Show Me the Way To Go Home 2:01
06. Into Tomorrow 3:40
07. I Got Gold 2:15
08. Painted Glass 3:06
09. Shadows In The Dark 3:56
10. Carry On 3:54
11. If It's The End 2:48
Release Notes:
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Coming in the wake of his critically acclaimed and gold certified debut 'Where
The Humans Eat' which included the now classic track 'Oxygen', and the
progressive sound of his 2007 second release 'If The Ocean Gets Rough', Willy
Mason returns with his new record - 'Carry On', which has been has five years in
the making.
Decamping to his childhood home in Martha's Vineyard once the dust had settled
on a busy period of touring the world and releasing two critically acclaimed
records, Willy used his time at home as a means of re-rooting to his childhood
community. With that came the creative freedom and inspiration to write the
songs that now form 'Carry On'.
Willy explains ''I felt like I wanted, needed to get stuck in somewhere, to keep
up with what was going on with the people my age.''
Having been introduced to producer Dan Carey by a mutual friend, Willy headed to
the altogether different climes of Streatham, South London to record what would
become 'Carry On'. Dan's background was varied and brilliant, working with the
likes of MIA, Hot Chip and Kylie Minogue, artists not immediately akin to the
sound of Willy Mason. However Dan's use of rhythm and bass along with the
prospect of using drumboxes was something that intrigued Willy; he admits "It
didn't make sense to me, it scared me, but I was open to trying it."
The resulting work is Mason's most ambitious and fully realized work to date.
Elements of dub and reggae infuse themselves seamlessly with guitar, low
strings, and Mason's inimitable gravel deep vocal to deliver songs awash with
the sentiments of hope, disillusionment, love and lost connections.
"I think of this record as the third and final chapter to a particular narrative
that started with Where the Humans Eat," says Willy. "It's a narrative that's
loosely based on me, on my character through performance, and I think that by
completing this album, I'm sort of closing the door on that and opening up a
whole new world of possibilities."