ARTiST : Duchess
ALBUM : Duchess
LABEL : Blackball Records
GENRE : Indie
ENCODER : Lame 3.90 / APS
QUALiTY : VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
RELEASE : Oct-26-2005
STREET : 2005
SOURCE : CDDA
TYPE : Album
PLAYTIME : 36:59 min
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[#] [Track Name] [Time]
01. Diamond Ring 04:12
02. Little Lion 04:10
03. Left Over 03:58
04. Unable 03:31
05. Cry an Ocean 04:53
06. When the Lights Were Bright 03:49
07. Shine, Shine 02:17
08. Let Me Gain 01:50
09. Not Closer 04:19
10. Providence 04:00
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http://www.myspace.com/duchessband
http://www.blackballrecords.com
Duchess is a new band comprised of two veteran players --
Christy Schnabel, whose torrid vocals you will instantly
remember from Ugly Beauty, and Jerry Di Rienzo of same. After
spending several years touring with bands like Built to Spill,
Come and Blond Redhead, Schnabel took time off from music to
raise her daughter and write a book chronicling her time spent
duking it out in major-label land (Ugly Beauty was on
Atlantic). Upon finishing the book (due in spring 2006)
Schnabel sequestered herself in a downtown LA practice space
and got back to business, armed only with her Fender guitar, a
mic, an ancient 8-track and two ten-pound bags of oranges. She
emerged a week later with what would become the Duchess album.
The album is Schnabel's vision start to finish -- she writes
all the songs, plays all the guitars, and sings all the
vocals. Her voice is languorous, other times ragged and
raging, sounding like PJ Harvey direct from a court-ordered
month at Bellevue. Other times, she courts torchy, her voice
warm and velveteen. Or as CMJ put it, "Schnabel delivers with
an alluring voice, rich in blues inflected attitude. Her
vocals resonate -- She's tough enough to stand her ground on
the punk rockers but it's on the gentler ballads that Schnabel
really shines, or rather, smolders." Jerry you know from Cell,
(NYC band discovered by Thurston Moore û big in the nineties).
He owns Hot Pie Recording in Pasadena, where he busies himself
in the studio recording LA luminaries too numerous to
name-drop. It was here that the Duchess record was given to
ex-Jawbreaker drummer and Blackball Records one-man-show Adam
Pfahler, who vowed to sell ten times less records than a major
while paying the band ten times more royalties. They didn't
even have to shake on it...