Artist.......: El Perro Del Mar
Album........: El Perro Del Mar
Label........: Memphis Industries
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Mar-02-2006
str.date.....: Apr-10-2006
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.elperrodelmar.com/
track title time
01. CAndy 03:23
02. God Knows (You Gotta Give To Get) 03:40
03. Party 03:12
04. People 03:18
05. Dog 03:01
06. I Can't Talk About It 02:53
07. Coming Down The Hill 02:33
08. This Loneliness 04:38
09. It's All Good 03:01
10. Here Comes That Feeling 03:21
Runtime 33:00 min
Size 47,10 MB
Release Notes:
In 2003 a girl from Sweden called Sarah went to a
Spanish island to sit on the beach and muse about
her life. She'd been making music as long as she
could remember but nothing quite matched the
melodies that lived in her dreams. This depressed
her. In fact, she hadn't written anything for
several years which left her feeling 'really odd,
kind of empty'. Picture her, if you will, looking
out to sea, to the coast of Africa. Suddenly, out
of nowhere, a dog appears on the shore. 'Something
about this moment just spoke to me', says Sarah. 'I
kept seeing that dog all week. When I came home I
felt better'. Her muse returned. Back home in
Gothenburg, she was inspired to write a bunch of
songs that harked back to the Brill Building era,
the youthful emotions of Goffin and King, only
filtered through gauze, through dreams, circular
and comforting. Shockingly so. Under the name El
Perro Del Mar (in tribute to the salty sea dog),
Sarah's first EP came out in Sweden in March 2004.
Lead off-track Candy and the heartbreaking Party
pinned down the El Perro Del Mar sound: minimal
sound, an acoustic wash, a boom of tympani, some
rippling chimes. Kind of a lo-fi Phil Spector
production. 'Come on over baby, there's a party
going on,' a gentle desperation expressed in three
or four lines. 'This is all I need to say' she
shrugs. 'I just want to express a feeling in a very
condensed way. Like the blues tradition, where you
lament on something and repeat it until it goes
away.'