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Artist | Dylan LeBlanc
Title | Cast The Same Old Shadow
Genre | Folk/Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 46:25
Label | Rough Trade Store | 2012
Catalog | RTRADCD690 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 222 kbps Size | 77.61 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Part One: The End 5:28
02. Innocent Sinner 3:12
03. Brother 4:53
04. Diamonds And Pearls 3:32
05. Where Are You Now 4:50
06. Chesapeake Lane 5:47
07. The Ties That Bind 4:12
08. Comfort Me 4:22
09. Cast The Same Old Shadow 6:28
10. Lonesome Waltz 3:41
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Shreveport, Louisiana native Dylan LeBlanc spent his formative years
surrounded by some of the region's finest musicians (his father,
singer/songwriter/guitarist James LeBlanc, is a longtime Muscle Shoals
session player). Dylan began writing his own songs at eleven, and by his
late teens, had developed a soulful, bluesy voice and guitar style that
resonated with the sights and sounds of his musical youth. He released
"Paupers Field", his smoky, languid Townes Van Zandt- and Fleet
Foxes-inspired debut, on Rough Trade in 2010 at the ripe old age of
nineteen, followed by the likeminded "Cast The Same Old Shadow" in 2012 and
the lush and compelling "Cautionary" Tale in 2016.
On 2010's "Paupers Field", then 20-year-old Shreveport, Louisiana native
Dylan LeBlanc presented a confident, if slightly laconic, new voice that
was based in the tradition of maverick singer/songwriters like Townes Van
Zandt, Neil Young, and Gram Parsons. Lush, less timid, and even more
melancholy than "Paupers Field", 2012's appropriately titled "Cast The Same
Old Shadow" feels like a proper second outing, building on the strengths of
its predecessor while maintaining its overall gloomy, gothic Americana
vibe.
LeBlanc's pained, doomed romanticism, best exemplified by weepy cuts like
"Part One: The End," "Where Are You Now," and "Lonesome Waltz," may be the
"same old shadow" he's referring to in the title, and it casts an awfully
wide net over the proceedings, resulting in an ultra-slow-burn listening
experience that falls somewhere between the wretched rain-soaked beauty of
Mickey Newbury and the hymn-like sonic expansiveness of Richard Hawley.
At its best, like on the aforementioned "Where Are You Now" and the
sprawling, instantly engaging "Brother," LeBlanc looks to high and lonesome
country for inspiration, eking out his own subgenre while respectfully
adhering to the original's mournful simplicity, but "Cast The Same Old
Shadow" ultimately crumbles under the weight of its own despondency.
LeBlanc's lonely, elastic voice, which can go from a ragged, triumphant
croon to a distant warble within a single phrase, feels like it's fighting
against not only the weight of the world, but the engineering booth as
well, more often than not flailing away beneath the towering waves of
admittedly lovely but unyielding atmosphere, and coming up predictably
spent.
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