Artist: Villagers
Album: Awayland
Bitrate: 235kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Domino Records
Genre: Indie
Size: 77.07 megs
PlayTime: 0h 43min 01sec total
Rip Date: 2013-01-12
Store Date: 2013-01-11
Track List:
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01. My Lighthouse 2:59
02. Earthly Pleasure 4:10
03. The Waves 5:01
04. Judgement Call 3:23
05. Nothing Arrived 3:46
06. The Bell 5:08
07. {Awayland} 2:35
08. Passing A Message 2:59
09. Grateful Song 4:24
10. In A Newfound Land You Are Free 3:30
11. Rhythm Composer 5:06
Release Notes:
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Conor O'Brien picked up a Mercury nomination for his band's debut, Becoming a
Jackal, and an Ivor Novello for the title track. Expectations for Villagers'
follow-up won't be dampened by the 28-year-old Irishman's suggestion that the
key influences are Nick Drake, Curtis Mayfield and Slaughterhouse 5 author Kurt
Vonnegut. O'Brien certainly has enough literary imagery to suggest he could have
been a writer. Earthly Pleasure is a compelling fantasy about a man who starts
off "naked on the toilet with a toothbrush in his mouth", is taken by his
imagination to the Brazilian war of independence and ends up meeting God.
Throughout, killer, thought-provoking lines abound: "There are waves up in the
sky, stronger than you and I." However, the dazzling imagery comes with a
rollercoasting voyage through acoustic soul, brass and û a new development û
electronica. Drake's gentle, ghostly hand is most audible in the damaged beauty
of the title track and depression-conquering Rhythm Composer. The soaring Waves
and joyful, piano-led Waterboysy stomp of Nothing Arrived may be the best
Villagers tunes to date.