Nightlands - Oak Island
Label.........................: Secretly Canadian
Genre.........................: Indie
StoreDate.....................: Jan-22-2013
Source........................: CDDA
Grabber.......................: Exact Audio Copy (Secure Mode)
Encoding Scheme...............: Lame 3.98.4 V0 VBR Joint-Stereo
Size..........................: 53.59 MB
Total Playing Time............: 33:03
Release Notes:
The son of a genetic engineer, Dave Hartley has eschewed his father's
profession but decidedly inherited his analytical proclivities and love
of "the lab." As Nightlands, Hartley is a scientist trying to create and
understand art through analytical process. Here, with sophomore album
Oak Island, his follow up to 2010's superb Forget the Mantra, new
questions are explored: what happens when the human voice is layered
exponentially? Is the sum more man, or more melancholy machine? In
seeking these answers, Nightlands takes us on a spirit quest through
lush forests down into The Uncanny Valley. Each distorted, silver-voiced
melody is wrapped in the sounds of 70s AM gold -- plucked acoustic
guitars, trumpets, dulcimers and hand percussion. In using these pop
touchstones, the songs become something close to memories, the faded
feelings that tide in and out of you when conjuring the past. To this
end, virtually every chord played on Oak Island is a major-7th, the most
nostalgic harmonic grouping. Seals & Croft produced by mid-70s
beetle-voiced Brian Eno. Crosby, HAL and Nash.
Beneath the analytics and technical experimentation lie 10 pop songs
about sadness and love; this silvery robot has learned what it means to
be human and paid a great cost. The elegant, lunar bossa-nova of album
standout "So Far So Long" with its distant trumpeted satellite signals,
offers a slow, confident lilting and wilting, as Hartley considers
traversing space and time.
Hartley is a prolific sideman in many notable Philadelphia bands and the
extraordinary bassist of The War on Drugs. Listeners expecting a simple
side project, however, will be surprised by the boldness and scope of
his vision--Nightlands is the Chuck Close painting to the The War on
Drugs' De Kooning.
Tracklisting
01. Time & Place 3:04
02. So Far So Long 4:18
03. You're My Baby 3:56
04. Nico 4:22
05. So It Goes 3:16
06. Born To Love 3:47
07. I Fell In Love With A Feeling 2:14
08. Rolling Down The Hill 3:17
09. Other People's Pockets 2:58
10. Looking For Rain 1:51
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