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Artist | Hope Sandoval And The Warm Inventions
Title | Until The Hunter
Genre | Indie Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 58:57
Label | Tendril Tales Store | 2016
Catalog | TT 03 Rip | 2017
Bitrate | 224 kbps Size | 100.13 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Into The Trees 9:04
02. The Peasant 4:57
03. A Wonderful Seed 4:19
04. Let Me Get There 7:31
05. Day Disguise 4:51
06. Treasure 5:53
07. Salt Of The Sea 4:22
08. The Hiking Song 4:28
09. Isn't It True 3:05
10. I Took A Slip 4:04
11. Liquid Lady 6:23
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Known for her hushed, quietly emphatic vocal style, Hope Sandoval became a
star in the alternative rock universe for her work with Mazzy Star and for
her guest spot on The Jesus And Mary Chain's "Sometimes Always" before she
moved on to a solo career. Sandoval was born in Los Angeles, California on
June 24, 1966. She grew up in East L.A., in a household full of music fans
- her dad favored jazz, her mother liked Spanish music, and her sister
enjoyed country. Hope and her close friend Sylvia Gomez were more
interested in the L.A. alternative rock scene, and were inspired by the
punk band X and their fiery lead singer, Exene Cervenka.
Sandoval isn't the quickest worker, it took Mazzy Star almost 20 years to
put out their fourth album, and this record comes seven years after the
last one she made with Colm O Ciosoig under the Warm Inventions name.
Despite the time it took to arrive, "Until The Hunter" is no great
departure for the duo. It features many hushed, lit-by-candlelight ballads,
loads of quiet beauty, and Sandoval's timelessly beautiful singing. Songs
drift by on a wispy cloud of acoustic strumming, lazily twanged slide
guitar, and twinkling keys, sometimes gently pushed forward by lightly
brushed drums, sometimes left to float along on their own.
New to the mix this time is vibraphone, as played by Sandoval, and a couple
songs that stretch her horizons just a bit. The duet with Kurt Vile on "Let
Me Get There" features the duo getting loose over a slinky Memphis soul
groove: Sandoval sounding strangely at home in unfamiliar surroundings,
Vile sounding like he wandered in off the street and barely learned the
song. It's too bad he got the gig - there are at least 50 male singers who
could have nailed it in his place. The album-opening "Into The Trees" is a
very, very slowly unspooling psych folk ballad that doesn't have much of a
tune, but grabs the listener by the throat using its foggy chords,
mysterious organ, and Sandoval's almost possessed vocals.
It lasts for nine minutes, but could have gone on twice as long. The rest
of the album is fully up to the standards Sandoval has established over
time, with heart-tugging ballads like the very Mazzy Star-sounding "The
Peasant" and the lovely "Day Disguise", languid folk songs ('The Hiking
Song', 'A Wonderful Seed'), and even a couple songs of a more
sprightly-than-usual nature, the handclap-driven "I Took A Slip" and the
almost jaunty "Isn't It True". As on previous Warm Inventions records,
Sandoval and O Ciosoig prove masters of creating atmospheric settings for
her luminous vocals.
The addition of vibraphone and the slightly more expansive arrangements
help make the album a subtle progression from the first two, so do the
increased number of catchy songs. The duo have crafted another beautiful
album and Sandoval sounds just as bewitching as she did the first time she
stepped behind a microphone. Seven years is a long time to wait between
albums, but if that's how long it takes to make the album as good as this
is, then the wait was worth it.
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