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: Artist......: Johanna Samuels
: Album.......: Bystander :
: Label.......: Jealous Butcher Records .. .:.. .
Genre.......: Indie :
Catnr.......: JB232 .
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; Rip.date....: 2024-02-02
Str.date....: 2023-06-23
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1. Ugly On The Inside 3:01
2. Golden Gate 4:05
3. Holy Mothers 4:37
4. The Rest Of Us 3:43
5. Phil Spector Is Dead 2:53
6. Valentine's Day Is Stupid 3:12
7. Little Buckets 4:00
8. Any Good 3:35
9. Song For Molly Parden (Happy Birthday Darling) 2:55
10. Tampa 4:10
11. Inside Girl 3:23
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,: The first witnesses to Samuels new beginnings fittingly became :,
: part of the sound of the album. During her darkest moments, :
:' while writing in isolation, her old friends in the band Bonny ':
,: Light Horseman offered to take her out on tour in early 2020. :,
: They re-contextualized music for me all over again, she says. :
:' Observing a truly kind and compassionate music community ':
,: brought Samuels out of herself even more. Inspired by :,
: conversations with producer Josh Kaufman (The Hold Steady, Bob :
:' Weir, Cassandra Jenkins) on the road, Samuels took him up on ':
,: his offer to produce her new songs and retreated to Isokon :,
: Studios in Woodstock, NY in the summer of 2021. They made the :
:' album as a duo, with Matt Barick (The Walkmen, Fleet Foxes) ':
,: contributing drums on the entirety of the record. The result is :,
: a sonic template that ranges from the soaring and orchestral to :
:' the understated and confessional; at turns free-wheeling and ':
,: filled with swagger then sincere and precise, with each subtle :,
: movement serving to highlight Samuels lyrical journeys. :
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,: As happens with albums that feel kinetic upon listening, the :,
: recording of Bystander with this skeleton crew of trusted :
:' friends served to underscore the questions Samuels had set out ':
,: to answer when she began writing: I had to ask myself what are :,
: my values? What kind of people do I want around? :
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,: In answering them, Samuels illuminates her path out of the :,
: wreckage. She doesn t shy away from where she s been but more :
:' importantly, over the course of these eleven elegiac poems set ':
,: to a carefully curated symphony of tones, Samuels lets us know :,
: where she s headed. Walking out of a thousand toxic :
:' conversations and away from a thousand false illusions, she s ':
,: stepping out into the street, with a glass raised for whoever :,
: the fuck is left. Listeners can count themselves among those :
:' being toasted; the lucky ones who get to greet Samuels and hear ':
,: the tales of her reckoning. :,
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