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Artist......: Andy Shauf
Album.......: The Neon Skyline
Label.......: Anti-
Genre.......: Indie
Catnr.......: 7475-2
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2020-01-31
Str.date....: 2020-01-24
Quality.....: 750 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://www.andyshauf.com/
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1. Neon Skyline 3:38
2. Where Are You Judy 3:21
3. Clove Cigarette 2:55
4. Thireen Hours 2:58
5. Things I Do 2:27
6. Living Room 3:05
7. Dust Kids 2:40
8. The Moon 3:36
9. Try Again 3:48
10. Fire Truck 3:21
11. Changer 3:02
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,: The Canadian singer-songwriter uses the concept album to :,
: recreate the quietly stirring scenes of a dead romance. The Neon :
:' Skyline unfolds into a wistful, funny, and heartbreaking world ':
,: of its own. :,
: :
:' Andy Shauf writes songs full of drinking and dancing, deep ':
,: conversation and inside jokes, close friends and old flamesùand :,
: heÆs having a miserable time. Since his 2009 debut, the :
:' soft-spoken singer-songwriter has grown increasingly adept at ':
,: telling stories from the vantage of the next morningÆs hangover: :,
: plagued by regret, lingering on moments of unease stitched :
:' through an otherwise pleasant evening. Like Phoebe Bridgers, he ':
,: incorporates bits of dialogue into his lyrics that illustrate :,
: not just how his characters speak but also how they really feel :
:' about each other. Like Jens Lekman, he accompanies himself with ':
,: hushed, breezy soft-rock that can betray the intensity of his :,
: thoughts. Some of his best choruses are wordless refrains, the :
:' sound of singing along without knowing what to say. ':
,: :,
: ShaufÆs new concept album The Neon Skyline takes place over the :
:' span of one night, as did his last solo record, 2016Æs The ':
,: Party. The story goes like this: Our narrator heads to a bar :,
: where he hears that his ex is back in town. From there, he :
:' spirals through the course of their relationship from young ':
,: love to jealous arguments to dreams of starting over. He :,
: eventually runs into her and they go their separate ways. But by :
:' this point, late in the album, youÆve learned that ':
,: reconciliation was never the point. In the climactic ôThirteen :,
: Hours,ö Shauf drifts through a flashback that doesnÆt focus on :
:' the fight that brought out their true nature, or the injury ':
,: that landed one of them in the hospital. Instead, the key lyric :,
: is about a simple facial expression that suggested how things :
:' could never be the same again. ':
,: :,
: These are subtle scenes to hinge a narrative on, especially one :
:' as simple as this. Deeply earnest but wary of dipping into ':
,: melodrama, Shauf gravitates toward the quietly stirring :,
: realizations youÆd find in a Raymond Carver story. There is no :
:' irony, little closure, and often no moral at the end. HeÆs now ':
,: in his early 30s, more than a decade removed from an early :,
: adulthood spent playing Christian pop-punk, and he has updated :
:' his songwriting to reflect precisely the kinds of social ':
,: situations that keep polite, seemingly well-adjusted adults :,
: awake at night. The moodùwistfulness giving way to :
:' self-deprecation, deep insight cut with awful punsùis both ':
,: familiar and endearing. :,
: :
:' The most affecting songs arrive during the albumÆs mid-section, ':
,: when a polite question about a friendÆs kid in ôLiving Roomö :,
: turns into a hallucinogenic vision quest about death and :
:' reincarnation and living out our parentsÆ mistakes. The ambling ':
,: folk musicùwhich Shauf plays entirely by himself on piano, :,
: guitar, woodwinds, and beyondùdims and intensifies to suggest a :
:' change in setting. When he sings about an intimate story ':
,: transporting him into someone elseÆs home, you feel like youÆre :,
: there with him. :
:' ':
,: For all ShaufÆs expertise as a writer and arranger, the quality :,
: of his music that stands out is his gentle, fluttering vocal :
:' affectation. Upon first listen, I was certain he was Scottish. ':
,: HeÆs actually from Regina, Saskatchewan and just so happens to :,
: pronounce the name ôCharlieö in a way that sounds closer to :
:' ôshoreline.ö He cracks a good joke about this in the jaunty ':
,: ôTry Again,ö where his narrator approximates a British accent to :,
: a response of bewilderment: ôWhat was that supposed to be?ö Like :
:' any good storyteller, he knows when to punch things upùyou ':
,: could play a drinking game with the number of times he mentions :,
: characters laughing at each other. But he also sounds a good :
:' deal lighter than he did on The Party, as the story of The Neon ':
,: Skyline calls for a voice that can drift from bar to bar, mood :,
: to mood. How sad can you be when the bartender knows what you :
:' want without asking and the jukebox has your favorite song? ':
,: :,
: The Neon Skyline doesnÆt require deep investment in its :
:' narrative to enjoy. Still, the closer you listen, the more ':
,: rewarding it becomes. Shauf is growing increasingly masterful at :,
: casting a spotlight on tiny moments that tend to get overlooked :
:' in stories about relationships. In ôTry Again,ö a loaded ':
,: misunderstanding provides one of the albumÆs best scenes: ôI :,
: miss this,ö she says, touching his coat; ôI miss you too,ö he :
:' responds; ôI was talking about the coat,ö she clarifies. The ':
,: record ends with a similarly subdued revelation, as the narrator :,
: allows himself a brief fantasy about how things could have :
:' played out differently between them. The thought is momentarily ':
,: thrilling, and the music is equally smokey and romantic, until :,
: he cuts himself off: ôOh, IÆm already bored.ö HeÆs learning that :
:' thereÆs a whole world out thereùnew people to meet, other ':
,: stories to tell, more nights to regret. :,
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