Artist: Israel Nash
Album: Israel Nash's Silver Season
Bitrate: 258kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Loose Music
Genre: Rock
Size: 95.51 megs
PlayTime: 0h 49min 14sec total
Rip Date: 2015-09-27
Store Date: 2015-10-09
Track List:
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01. Willow 5:19
02. Parlour Song 5:54
03. The Fire & The Flood 5:00
04. L.A. Lately 6:42
05. Lavendula 4:30
06. Strangers 6:39
07. A Coat Of Many Colors 5:34
08. Mariner's Ode 4:37
09. The Rag & Bone Man 4:59
Release Notes:
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Cosmos-wrangling Americana upstart Israel Nash returns from Texas Hill Country
with his Silver Season, a deeply gorgeous and wholly immersive nine-song set
that plays less like an album, and more like a cross section of time and space.
The manÆs fourth LP ventures farther down the acid-soaked trail blazed by 2013Æs
Rain Plans, arriving in lush and expansive territory. Here, this Missouri son
sounds more assured than ever, supported by his highly capable band and
production inspired by psychedelic greats. Israel NashÆs Silver Season is best
played loudly, and sounds wonderful in headphones.
Like the record before it, this one was made on NashÆs 15-acre swath of land in
Dripping Springs, Texas, with one key difference. While Rain Plans was recorded
inside of the new home he shared with his then-pregnant wife, Silver Season was
born in the studio Nash built outside and named Plum Creek Sound, a 1,400
square- foot Quonset erected in March. The band was ready to begin in late May
when the floods came, filling the building with water and muck. Nash and the
boys pushed on anyhow. Digging trenches, hauling sandbags, clearing mud, and
plugging inùthatÆs how they made an album, doing what needed to be done.
The end result isnÆt so terrestrial, however. Silver Season billows outward with
its opening song, ôWillow.ö A swirl of keys, bass, pedal steel, acoustic strum,
and languid drums envelop the listener as NashÆs cooed poetry recontextualizes
the world through his daughterÆs eyes. A shimmery Morricone-like passage carries
us into ôParlour Song,ö which sounds a little like Neil Young leading Tame
Impala. ôSooner or later weÆll surrender our guns/But not until weÆve shot
everyone,ö Nash sings. And while the line would fit into a celebratory tale
about Old West outlaws, itÆs actually a modern lament.
From the warm drift and easy elasticity of ôStrangersö (one of two cuts that
verge on seven minutes) to the holler-along gospel of ôThe Rag & Bone Man,ö
Silver Season feels like a living thing. ThatÆs a product of the wild five-man
sessions that took place in the sweltering Quonset (with beer breaks, and
slingshot target practice using the empties). ItÆs also due to the care put into
taming all of that good noise, with engineer Ted Young (Kurt Vile, Sonic Youth)
returning to the mix. The analog hum grounds the guitar wizardry, while the
depth of sound ties the band to the pasture that surrounds.
It makes sense that Nash would come into his own out there. He was raised in the
Ozarks amidst hills and farmland. Other things add up too. His pastor father and
artist mother were very much children of the Æ60s. Dad bought him Sgt. PepperÆs
when he was 10, Mom handed him an electric guitar at 11, and Nash was writing
songs by 12. And while heÆs grown away from the religion he was raised under,
NashÆs music is nothing if not spiritual. The spirit just comes from a different
placeùnature, family, song, and the occasional trip into times and spaces we
canÆt normally access. Hidden within the folds of Silver Season, NashÆs
weather-beaten voice says it best: ôI donÆt live like the others/I see twice as
many colors.ö