ARTIST: Vetiver
TITLE: To Find Me Gone
LABEL: FatCat
GENRE: Folk
BITRATE: 197kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 53min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-05-22
RIP DATE: 2006-04-04
Track List
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01. Been So Long 3:58
02. You May Be Blue 4:41
03. No One World 6:13
04. Idle Ties 4:33
05. I Know No Pardon 6:53
06. Maureen 3:32
07. The Porter 2:18
08. Double 5:13
09. Red Lantern Girls 6:49
10. Wont Be Me 4:23
11. Down At El Rio 5:16
Release Notes:
To Find Me Gone is the second album by Andy Cabic's ever-evolving band Vetiver,
released two years after the debut self-titled release. Andy has since toured
the world, usually as a member of Devendra Banhart's band, and sometimes even
with Vetiver. In those two years, Vetiver has expanded into a full-on
singer-songwriter band/project, aided and abetted by some of the best players
(and usually his best friends) in the extended family of which Cabic finds
himself a member. Cabic explains, "This album sure has a lot of folks playing on
it, same as on a Bobby Charles or Jerry Jeff Walker record, all good folks and
friends."
Once again skillfully crafted, produced and mixed with Thom Monahan (as on the
debut), To Find Me Gone is a much different, more free and mature effort,
reflective of Cabic's growth as a songwriter over the last two crazy, wonderful
years. According to Cabic, "I feel the new album embodies the swirling duality
of these last two years, the duality of presence and absence, both in how
protracted its birth has been, and in its lyrical themes. There are scenes in
the songs where figures come back from far away, to changes and time itself
rolling by in their absence. To Find Me Gone has songs of remembrance and
recollection, all made in order to conquer absence. It's a different kind of
album, in that I think it's the kind of album you can get serious about and
carry with you for a long time. In the end it's about the songs, how they all
run into one another, and ran over all of us, as we churned up this album."
Musically, there's a dreamy Topanga Canyon vibe on select songs (maybe that's
the pedal steel calling on "No One Word"), and there's also plenty of crunchy
candy for those who have appreciated Cabic's recent nod toward the magic of
'70s-era Fleetwood Mac (check out the screaming guitar outro of "Red Lantern
Girls"). Yet everything is simply, amazingly Vetiver, not anything else; To Find
Me Gone is Andy Cabic's own original statement, one that many will consider as
one of the finest albums of 2006.