Melissa McClelland - Thumbelina's One Night Stand
ARTIST.....: Melissa McClelland
TITLE......: Thumbelina's One Night Stand
LABEL......: The Orange Record Label / Universal Music Canada
URL........: http://www.melissamcclelland.com/
RIP DATE...: May-23-2006
STORE DATE.: May-23-2006
GENRE......: Folk-Rock
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 90,4 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Passenger 24 04:57
02 - Iroquois Street Factory 04:09
03 - Solitary Life 05:13
04 - A Price To Pay 05:15
05 - You Know I Love You Baby 03:35
06 - The Taxi Ride 05:34
07 - Intermission 00:56
08 - Go Down Matthew 05:36
09 - Goodbye To You 06:24
10 - Skyway Bridge 05:16
11 - Come Home Suzie 04:41
12 - Dayton Ohio, 1903 02:03
13 - Oh, Love! 05:57
14 - Whisper (Jeff Trott Mix) 04:20
15 - You Know I Love You Baby (Jeff Trott Mix) 03:24
16 - Bonus Track 00:51
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68:11 min
Release Notes:
Some dream of marrying the girl next door. Other's fantasize about
one wild night with her in the back of daddy's car. At first
glance, Melissa is the perfect object of both desires: classically
demure in a pink cashmere sweater, until a blood red bra strap
suddenly leaps from her shoulder. She's the type of girl to which
you'd entrust all of your worldly possessions, giving her the keys
to your house, the keys to your car, only to discover later that
she tore the roof off one and disappeared for days in the other.
Fairy tales are made of girls like these; or in Melissa's case,
re-written by them.
Thumbalina's one night stand is the first of its kind. This album
is a collection of dark fables for the soul, where love haunts
solitude and fantasy trumps reality. By unflinchingly
internalizing pop music sensibilities, Melissa carefully maps out
the landscape within us. She explores the rules on the inside, for
it is there where most rules are broken.
Never begrudging us our bearings or herself tradition, Melissa's
music and lyrics both sooth and comfort us. She has the utmost
respect for the forms of expression she has chosen, and lovingly
buckles us in for the ride. Nevertheless, we are mysteriously
transported someplace entirely unexpected, yet always a sacred
place we were somehow meant to go.
Thumbalina is not entirely Melissa's tale. It belongs to all those
who have flirted with would be disaster, taken a left turn instead
of a right, inhaled so deeply that cracks become roads and
slipping becomes strutting. It also belongs to the visionaries
that came together to make it so: her right hand man, producer and
guitar extraordinaire Luke Doucet; additional production by Jeff
Trott; her stellar band; and adding to it all, guest appearances
by Greg Keelor (Blue Rodeo), Justin Rutledge, and Sarah McLachlan.
With this album Melissa McClelland has risen as the avant-garde
mistress of inner pop noire. Sometimes purgatorial, other times
ephemeral, she is both poet and pioneer. She never flinches at the
ugly, never falters at the undone. Instead, she continually rises,
one minute the vixen, the next apple pie.
A dark feline beauty in a spotless whit summer dress in the
deepest of southern romances on the coldest of winter nights,
Melissa is a heroine you will not be able to get out of your mind.