Marlon_Williams-Marlon_Williams-2016-404

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404

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59,61 MB

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2016-02-26

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Artist: Marlon Williams
Album: Marlon Williams
Bitrate: 234kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Dead Oceans
Genre: Country
Size: 60.23 megs
PlayTime: 0h 34min 15sec total
Rip Date: 2016-02-26
Store Date: 2016-02-19

Track List:
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01. Hello Miss Lonesome              3:15
02. After All                        3:11
03. Dark Child                       5:23
04. I'm Lost Without You             5:15
05. Lonely Side Of Her               2:24
06. Silent Passage                   3:06
07. Strange Things                   3:03
08. When I Was A Young Girl          5:51
09. Everyone's Got Something To Say  2:47

Release Notes:
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ItÆs hard to work out quite how the debut album from the young New Zealander
Marlon Williams manages to be so uplifting. It features covers of Teddy
RandazzoÆs none-more-woebegone 1964 ballad IÆm Lost Without You, and a version
of the death ballad When I Was a Young Girl û a traditional number derived in
part from the equally miserable folk standards Streets of Laredo and The
Unfortunate Rake û alongside originals that donÆt ladle on the cheer: ôI lost my
wife in 1989 to a certain kind of undetectable cancer,ö opens Strange Things.
But Williams has a delicious lightness of touch, and his take on a mythic
America, which blends alt-country, 60s pop and 19th-century folk, never gets
bogged down in a quest for authenticity. After the opening hoedown of Hello Miss
Lonesome, he ploughs straight into the bouncy guitar pop of After All. The
overall effect is something akin to what the Byrds were doing in 1967: itÆs not
that the album sounds like Younger Than Yesterday or The Notorious Byrd
Brothers, more the sense of someone trying to synthesise contrasting musics into
a single coherent identity.

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