Artist: Windsor For The Derby
Album: Giving Up The Ghost
Bitrate: 186kbps avg
Label: Secretly Canadian
Genre: Indie
Size: 48 megs
Playtime: 0h 35min 44sec total
Rip date: 2005-07-08
Store date: 2005-08-16
Track List:
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01. Dirge For A Pack of Lies 1:11
02. Empathy For People Unknown 4:03
03. Prais 3:16
04. Shadows 3:20
05. The Front 2:57
06. Giving Up 6:53
07. The Light Is On 3:50
08. Gathering 2:37
09. Science 2:39
10. Every Word You Ever Said 4:58
Release Notes:
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Windsor for the Derby are a study in dualities. It is made of two primary band
members preserving not only a musical identity but a friendship over many years
and many miles. Creating music that is equal parts dance andfolk, a truly
disparate combination of styles that come out sounding completely organic. While
listening to "Giving Up The Ghost", you hear not only the beautiful stylistic
tension of two styles at play, but also the room and atmosphere itself.
Windsor's music has always been a play on modern pop, infused with giant amounts
of space, a space that both reflected the physical distance between its members
as well as providing an artistic counterpoint to the massive inundation of noise
and data that our society is bombarded with daily.
The past eleven years have seen Windsor For The Derby reach across the country
and make the long distance relationship somehow work. With founding members
Jason McNeely in Austin, TX and Dan Matz in various locales along the east
coast, WFTD always seemed more a "project" than a band. Last summer both found
themselves living in the same city as they both relocated to Philadelphia. In
the past WFTD had to rely on their semi-annual meetings to conduct their
business, but now they are regularly playing live shows and prolifically
recording in their home studio.
The live shows have become something different for Windsor. The line-up
additions of Anna Neighbor (keys/ bass) and Charlie Hall (drummer) created a
much less clinical and prescribed live experience, morphing into a much more
bombastic yet centered happening. A happening that is truly captured on "Giving
up the Ghost."
The songs of "Giving Up The Ghost" find influence in sources as distinctly
diverse as Italian horror films to Civil War death notices while maintaining a
foothold in the most base elements of the modern human condition--
disappointment, breakup, heartache, and the trials and tribulations of creating
art in an increasingly stringent cultural climate.