Artist.......: Carol AlRoy
Album........: Gorgeous Enormous
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: May-21-2006
str.date.....: Jul-03-2006
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.carolynalroy.com/
track title time
01. Do you know what i mean 03:25
02. My first mistake 02:16
03. Italian Parsley 02:59
04. The reality song 02:59
05. Valentines Day 02:38
06. He's Amazing 03:33
07. Sound of Revolution 03:15
08. Waiting for the light 02:46
09. Anything can happen 03:27
10. Waiting for you to be born 03:07
11. Helter skelter 02:37
12. You belong to me 03:33
Runtime 36:35 min
Size 47,5 MB
Release Notes:
Carolyn AlRoy grew up in Princeton, NJ, home of
eclectic oddballs and intellectual misfits. She
went to Rutgers to study acting, but ended up
becoming a poet. She studied with Poet Laureate
Robert Pinski, doing readings throughout the New
York City area throughout the '90's until she began
pursing her doctorate as a licensed psychotherapist
and writing songs. "The process of songwriting is
similar to therapy,", according to AlRoy. "When I
hear patients use unusual language, it makes me
stop and ask questions...the language holds
something that is not directly expressed, but is
tangible". She has a private practice in Manhattan
where she helps people with their inner demons
during the day before showing off her own in New
York clubs by night.
GORGEOUS ENORMOUS is AlRoy's debut album, and is
co-produced by singer-songwriter Matt Keating and
indie rock producer Adam Lasus (Clap Your Hands And
Say Yeah). The album is a breath of fresh air:
familiar but completely original. The songs in
GORGEOUS ENORMOUS are influenced by artists such as
Crowded House and Matthew Sweet. AlRoy's music
vacillates between upbeat power-pop numbers with
jangly guitars and quietly lilting folk ballads.
Featuring an all-star band including drums by Mark
Brotter from HEM, bass by Jason Mercer (Ron
Sexsmith, Ani DiFranco), and Matt Keating on almost
everything else, AlRoy's songs alternately shine
with exuberance and melancholy.
From the spaghetti-Western influenced "Reality
Song" to the chamber pop extravaganza "Valentines
Day," to the grungy "Sound of Revolution," AlRoy's
engagingly exquisite voice traverses different
genres seamlessly.
Her cover of Helter Skelter ranks up there as one
of the best Beatle covers ever with it's subversive
take on that 60's classic. It is disturbingly slow
and achingly tense; if Charles Manson had heard
this one first, he would have never gotten around
to killing anybody.