ARTIST: Blake Miller
TITLE: Together With Cats
LABEL: Exit Stencil Recordings
GENRE: Folk
BITRATE: 176kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 36m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-12-05
RIP DATE: 2006-11-14
Track List
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1. Sinners 2:47
2. International 3:27
3. Summer She's Hiding 2:39
4. Cut Your Hair 3:51
5. Swing Set 3:48
6. In Our Own Place 2:52
7. Mama Papa Witch Daddy 2:13
8. Your Own Tree 2:45
9. Like Birds 2:10
10. Pouring Out My Sides 1:53
11. Rain And Sunrise 4:16
12. You Need Not Worry 4:09
Release Notes:
At only 19 years old and hailing from the college town of Columbus, Ohio, Blake
Miller stands to quickly become one of the most renowned singer-songwriters of
our day. But to call Blake a singer-songwriter is perhaps a misnomer, because
there are far more dynamics going on here than a solitary voice accompanied by a
lone guitar. His mastery of melody and arrangement creates songs that range from
the haunting to the intimate, but contain an honesty that allows him to stay far
enough outside the lyrical styling of the ôfreak folkö movement to create
something truly distinct. The songs contained here on Together with Cats exhibit
vocal melodies suggestive of a combination of Devendra Barnhart and Grizzly
Bear, coupled with the intimacy and earnestness of early Iron & Wine recordings.
Together with Cats chronicles home recordings made over the past year by Blake
Miller and a rotating group of friends as collaborators. Slide guitar, violin,
some mouth-based percussion, and more, pepper the album, but the dominate
instrument is BlakeÆs voiceùwhich is often multi-layered and provides a richness
and texture to the album that makes you forget all else. After hearing these
recordings through a mutual friend at a coffee shop, Exit Stencil approached
Blake and ended up selecting 12 songs from his vast catalog to create a document
that would portray a nascent talent coming of age.
In addition to Together with Cats, Blake Miller is beginning to work on his
first studio record with Exit Stencil that will surface sometime in late 2007.