ARTiST : Eric Anders
ALBUM : Tethered To The Ground
LABEL : Baggage Room
GENRE : Indie
RELEASE : 2006-03-23
STREET : 2006-03-00
ENCODER : LAME 3.90
QUALiTY : 190kbps avg / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
SiZE : 72 MB
PLAYTiME : 00:50:13
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[#] [Track Name] [Time]
1. Big World Abide 4:32
2. How Long And Why 4:07
3. Tethered To The Ground 3:25
4. Far Away Land 3:05
5. Blister In The Sun 3:18
6. Earth Rise 4:19
7. Looking Forward To Your Fall 4:42
8. These People 3:09
9. Fall Over 3:37
10. So Wrong 4:21
11. Truth Be Told 2:30
12. Funeral Time 4:06
13. Walking Cure 5:02
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This stunning blend of surreal soundscapes, driving bass lines, and aching
melodies was produced by Matt Brown of Trespassers William.
According to Rolling Stone critic Gail Worley: "Eric Anders is an obscure,
independent singer-songwriter whose unaffected ability to turn a phrase and
otherworldly knack for arranging transcendent, melancholy melodies would have
made him a superstar à you know, if records still sold based on talent."
Tethered to the Ground is Eric's third full-length CD and will be released April
11, 2006. Though there is continuity with his previous releases since Eric wrote
many of the songs with the same writing partners from before, particularly Mark
O'Bitz, there is also very much a new sound here, largely attributable to some
new music partners: the members of Trespassers William.
Tethered to the Ground was produced by Matt Brown, Trespassers Williams
guitarist and producer. Matt also played most of the guitars and keys. TW's
celebrated lead singer, Anna-Lynne Williams, generously contributed some truly
wonderful backing vocals, while Ross Simonini, TW's bassist, made an invaluable
contribution during recording by playing several instruments including bass.
Gail Worley on Tethered to the Ground:
With a voice that combines James Taylor's grounded poignancy with Jeff Buckley's
complex ethereality, west coast singer-songwriter Eric Anders creates gorgeous,
wistful "Sunday morning" music unlike that of any other contemporary artist. The
thirteen tunes gracing Anders' brilliant new release, Tethered To The Ground are
buoyed by his masterful grasp of song craft and remarkable knack for warm,
intricately sculpted arrangements. On standout tracks like the haunting "Earth
Rise" and the thinly veiled revenge fantasy "Looking Forward to Your Fall" the
singer manages to convey a range of nuanced emotions by foregoing superficial
emoting. But it is his nearly-unrecognizable-yet-instantly-familiar cover of the
Violent Femmes' "Blister in the Sun," which transforms the original's spastic
jubilation into a ballad on the sweet agony of unarticulated sentiments, that
truly separates Anders from his peers and marks him as singular.
http://www.ericanders.com