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░ ▓████▓▌ ░ Artist.......: Richmond Fontaine ▐▓▀▀
▓ ▐█████▓█ Album........: The Fitzgerald ▀ ░
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░░ ███▓▓ ▓▓░▓░ rip.date....: 27-04-2005 ░▓▓░ ▓███▀ ▀▓█▓▓ ░
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▓████▓▌ 01. The Warehouse Life 02:26 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. Welhorn Yards 03:18 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. Black Road 02:17 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. Incident at Conklin Creek 03:26 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. Disappeared 03:51 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. Casino Lights 03:17 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. Exit 194B 03:56 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. Laramie, Wyoming 03:57 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. The Janitor 05:51 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. Don't Look and It Won't Hurt 02:38 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 11. Making It Back 03:03 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ [ A B O U T . T H i S . R E L E A S E ] ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ The Fitzgerald, Richmond Fontaineφs sixth and most ▓▌
▓████▓▌ recent studio recording, is a quiet departure from ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the raucous, visceral send-ups and live shows that ▓▌
▓████▓▌ got the band compared to the likes of the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Replacements and Whiskeytown. Written when ▓▌
▓████▓▌ singer/songwriter, Willy Vlautin was holed up for ▓▌
▓████▓▌ two weeks in a Fitzgerald Casino hotel room in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Reno, Nevada, the album is a stark collection of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ songs about the people who live in the shadows of a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ casino town. If you think Springsteenφs ∞Nebraskaε ▓▌
▓████▓▌ as written by a young Tom Waits on a acoustic ▓▌
▓████▓▌ guitar, youφll be close. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Itφs a record about the gamblers, the runaways, and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the derelicts -- folks who Fontaine front man ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Vlautin is intimately familiar with, seeing as he ▓▌
▓████▓▌ hails from the Biggest Little City in the World, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Reno. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Produced once again by JD Foster (Dwight Yokam), ▓▌
▓████▓▌ who was at the helm for the critically acclaimed ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Post To Wire, and recorded in Portland, Oregon at ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Blue Room Studios, this is the first late night ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Richmond Fontaine record. Gone are the distorted ▓▌
▓████▓▌ guitars, replaced by Vlautinφs light-fingered touch ▓▌
▓████▓▌ on the acoustic. Multi-instrumentalist Paul ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Brainard again steps in for studio duties and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ trades his pedal steel in for a piano. The bandφs ▓▌
▓████▓▌ rhythm section is reigned in to a soft rumble. From ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the opening track ∞The Warehouse Lifeε about a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ run-in with a debt ridden gambler and his bookie, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to ∞Laramie, Wyomingε the harrowing tale of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ runawayφs trials and tribulations on the road, to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ∞Donφt Look and it Wonφt Hurtε the story of a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ womanφs escape from her abusive boyfriend only to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ end up living her life alone in a motel next to a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ casino, these are the most vivid and compelling ▓▌
▓████▓▌ songs Richmond Fontaine have written to date. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ The past year brought all kinds of new ground being ▓▌
▓████▓▌ broken by Richmond Fontaine. Playing stellar shows ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in clubs from the world famous Winnemucca Hotel in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Nevada, to headlining the Spirit of Austin festival ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in London, to selling out theatres in Mallorca, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Richmond Fontaine cut a wide swath through ▓▌
▓████▓▌ uncharted territory in 2004. The hard work paid ▓▌
▓████▓▌ off. Uncut magazine named the bandφs Post To Wire ▓▌
▓████▓▌ album Number 4 of the year, right behind Brian ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Wilson, Wilco and Loretta Lynn and said it was ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ∞UNCUTs discovery of the year╓a dark mesmerising ▓▌
▓████▓▌ masterpieceε. They were on over 20 year end top ten ▓▌
▓████▓▌ lists. Their shows became packed with fans who ▓▌
▓████▓▌ bought up all their back catalogue religiously and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ a book deal was done with Faber and Faber for ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Willyφs first novel ∞The Motel Lifeε. And Richmond ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Fontaine felt the first warm rush of commercial ▓▌
▓████▓▌ success ± meaning they could finally book hotel ▓▌
▓████▓▌ rooms rather than sleep on some kind soulφs living ▓▌
▓████▓▌ room floor. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ And while the Portland Oregon band came on the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ radar of tons of new music fans around the world, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Richmond Fontaine has been doing what they do for ▓▌
▓████▓▌ more than 10 years now. To Richmond Fontaine ▓▌
▓████▓▌ newcomers, the bandφs new offering, the subdued and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ shattering The Fitzgerald may seem like a 90 degree ▓▌
▓████▓▌ left turn. But to long time fans whoφve ridden with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the band since their 1996 debut Safety through to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the present, the new work will be an introspective, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ challenging new chapter of one of the most ▓▌
▓████▓▌ surprising bands to come out of the United States. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Formed in 1994 at the Portland Meadows horse track ▓▌
▓████▓▌ by Vlautin and Dave, when the two took their mutual ▓▌
▓████▓▌ love of H╕sker Du, Willie Nelson, X, The Blasters, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and The Replacements and began playing music ▓▌
▓████▓▌ together. The band was named after a down and out ▓▌
▓████▓▌ American expatriate Harding had met while ▓▌
▓████▓▌ hitchhiking through Mexico. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Look for the band playing the Lyric Theatre on May ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 19th plus shows in Manchester and Glasgow and a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ full European tour following as well as playing the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ UNCUT showcase at this years SXSW on March 16th at ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the Vibe Bar ± 508 East 6th St with American Music ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Club, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Micah P Hinson and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ others. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Hereφs what they said about the last album Post To ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Wire: ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ∞Uncutφs discovery of the year╓.Fans of a certain ▓▌
▓████▓▌ kind of orphaned Americana are likely to fall on ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Post To Wire like apostles on The Grail. By which I ▓▌
▓████▓▌ mean anyone whoφs been touched where it hurts by ▓▌
▓████▓▌ American Music Club, The Replacements, Uncle ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Tupelo, Ryan Adams, Dave Alvin or Gram Parsons will ▓▌
▓████▓▌ soon be entirely enthralled with this dark and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ mesmerising masterpiece, brilliant. UNCUT ALBUM OF ▓▌
▓████▓▌ THE MONTH ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ ∞Those of you alienated by the roisterous flash of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Ryan Adams should hitch your horses to Richmond ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Fontaineφs post right now.ε TIME OUT ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ∞Every now and then it happens, Every now and then ▓▌
▓████▓▌ an album comes and grabs you by the throat and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ doesnφt let go. These songs whistle though your ▓▌
▓████▓▌ brain as if they were always there, the melodies ▓▌
▓████▓▌ follow you from caf╚φ to street corner to late ▓▌
▓████▓▌ night platforms and unlit hallways. Itφs been a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ long time since I loved every track on an album. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ What Songs, what fucking great songs. This is one ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of those times. Without a doubt, the best album of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the decade so farε COMES WITH A SMILE ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ εthe seasons must have Americana purchases. A ▓▌
▓████▓▌ little dictionary of dashed hopes bathed in the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ half-dead ennui of the latter period Replacements, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ but Richmond Fontaine singer Willy Vlautin has ▓▌
▓████▓▌ inherited Paul Westerbergφs nose for Big Star ▓▌
▓████▓▌ power-pop choruses as well as his half-empty glass ▓▌
▓████▓▌ eye for a novelistic lyricε MOJO ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ This time out reviewers will be looking up synonyms ▓▌
▓████▓▌ for δmagnificentφ and δotherworldlyφ. 4/5 LOGO ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ "Burnished Americana; ringing Fender guitars, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ lachrymose pedal steel, dark balladry - imagines a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ less feral Uncle Tupelo, but winningly so." Q ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ A dynmamic study of the American underbelly, it ▓▌
▓████▓▌ puts Vlautinφs songwriting on a par with that of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ his heros Jay Farrar and Paul Westerbergε 5/5 Stars ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ± Independent ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ∞Post To Wire emerges somewhere between Gram ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Parsonsφ slide guitar majesty and Lou Reedφs ▓▌
▓████▓▌ narrated New York. The Characters become your ▓▌
▓████▓▌ neighbours and the tunes as familiar as friends, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ making Post To Wire a faboulous addition to the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ all-too-slim canon of passionate, literary ▓▌
▓████▓▌ rockφnφrollε 4/5 Stars ± Guardian ▓▌
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