ARTIST: Jane Weaver
TITLE: Seven Day Smile
LABEL: Cherry Red
GENRE: Indie
SOURCE: CD
BITRATE: 197 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 38:46
RELEASE DATE: 2006-03-27
RIP DATE: 2006-03-30
Track List
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1. Slow Song 2:58
2. Seven Day Smile 4:54
3. Weathered 3:18
4. Starglow 5:51
5. The Sink 2:32
6. You're A Riot 4:09
7. Once You'd Given Me Up 1:56
8. In Summer 4:01
9. You're Not The Only Person That 4:41
I Used To Know
10. Guttergirl 4:26
Release Notes:
Jane Weaver is a rare creature in the vanity-stricken world of female singers,
and perhaps with a more generous roll of the dice we might all have heard of
her. Serving her apprenticeship in the mid-nineties girl-guitar-pop outfit Kill
Laura, Weaver would go on to front Twisted NerveÆs Misty Dixon and release her
critically acclaimed solo mini-album, æLike An Aspen LeafÆ. It was, however,
somewhere in between that she secured a record deal with Mancunian music
maverick Rob GrettonÆs Manchester Records.
Working and playing live with the likes of Andy Votel, Badly Drawn Boy and
Doves, the latter would help her to record a number of acclaimed singles and a
debut solo album. However, when Rob Gretton sadly died his label went with him
and the album never saw the light of day û until now!
At last, available for the first time on the brand new Cherry Red Records
imprint, Bird Records, æSeven Day SmileÆ - Jane WeaverÆs debut album proper
featuring the effable talents of Doves as backing band - avoids the anthemic
arm-wavers, preferring heart-rending songs of fragile beauty.
Both haunting and beautiful in equal measure, Weaver delivers a spellbinding
collection of songs fusing gorgeous melodies, hypnotic vocal harmonies and
nostalgic production with generous measures of Farfisa organ, melodica and
understated guitars. Deeply personal, musically adept and heartfelt in the
extreme, from the heart warming opener æSlow Songæ through to the luscious
æYouÆre A RiotÆ, this album will seduce and entrance you - melting all but the
cruellest of hearts.
http://www.janeweaver.co.uk/