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Artist: Trixie Whitley
Album: Fourth Corner
Label: Strong Blood Music
Playtime: 104:23min
Genre: Indie
URL: http://www.trixiewhitley.com/
Rip date: 2014-06-26
Street date: 2013-11-18
Size: 173.22 MB
Type: Deluxe Edition
Quality: 220 kbps / 4410Hz / Joint Stereo
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Trixie Whitley has played stages all over the globe, but she is best known, if
at all, as the lead vocalist of Daniel Lanois' supergroup Black Dub. Whitley,
still in her twenties, is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with the
confidence and savvy of a schooled veteran. She's been performing in Europe
and New York since she was a kid, in mediums ranging from music and dance to
theater. Fourth Corner is her debut full-length; it follows three EPs that
began with 2008's Strong Blood (produced with Me'Shell NdegΘocello and Dougie
Bowne). She is the daughter of the innovative guitarist and songwriter Chris
Whitley. Her primary collaborators on this self-penned 11-song set are
producer/keyboardist Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman), and engineer Pat Dillett ù
both have lengthy credit sheets. There are a handful of other guests,
including drummer Ben Perowski and Black Dub bassist Daryl Johnson. Lead-off
single "Breathe You in My Dreams," with its brooding, elegiac intensity,
sparse instrumentation, nocturnal effects, and deeply soulful vocals is an
excellent introduction to her gifts as singer and writer. Whitley is firmly
grounded in roots traditions ù vintage soul, R&B, blues, and rock ù but she
invests them with a 21st century modernism that extends these traditions
toward indie rock with intuitive production, wily hooks, strategic effects,
solid lyrics, and that amazing voice. She peels the leathery scars off the
listener's heart while bearing her own in each tune. Her slide guitar playing
is clearly influenced by her late dad's (the barely contained feedback and
distortion in the scorching rocker "Hotel No Name" and the lone National Steel
blues in the moving closer "Oh, The Joy" are prime examples), but it's never
the focal point; it's an elemental service to her songwriting, as are her
drumming, bass playing, and piano skills). "Pieces," with its layered chamber
strings and skeletal percussion loop, support the emotional tightrope that is
her singing. "I Need Your Love" is a hybrid retro-soul with an infectious
nodding rhythm. The jazzy "Morelia," is elegant but packs a wallop. The
atmospheric title cut unwinds gradually, hovering and drifting on a shimmering
frame with only her voice to ground and illuminate the poetic crevices in the
lyric and shed light on the rumbling emotions beneath. Fourth Corner
establishes Whitley as a sophisticated, mature songwriter and a passionate
vocalist only beginning to realize her powers.
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Irene ( 4:02)
02. Never Enough ( 3:41)
03. Pieces ( 4:38)
04. Need Your Love ( 3:33)
05. Silent Rebel Pt. 2 ( 4:43)
06. Breathe You In My Dreams ( 4:19)
07. Gradual Return ( 3:41)
08. Hotel No Name ( 4:12)
09. Morelia ( 4:49)
10. Fourth Corner ( 4:37)
11. Oh, The Joy ( 4:08)
01. A Thousand Thieves (Live At Ab) ( 5:32)
02. That Power (Live At 3fm) ( 4:30)
03. Never Enough (Kcrw Session) ( 3:32)
04. Breathe You In My Dreams (France Inter Session) ( 4:05)
05. A Ghange Is Gonna Come (Oii Fm Session) ( 4:12)
06. Strong Blood ( 5:05)
07. I'd Rather Go Blind ( 4:22)
08. Irene (Kid Koala Remix) ( 3:55)
09. Pieces (Kid Koala Remix) ( 4:59)
10. Danger Mind (Demo) ( 4:48)
11. Need Your Love (Stubru Session) ( 4:03)
12. Like Ivy ( 4:01)
13. A Thousand Thieves ( 4:56)
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