ARTiST: Juno Falls
ALBUM: Weightless
BiTRATE: 197kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: V2
GENRE: Indie
SiZE: 58.55 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 39min 26sec total
RiP DATE: 2007-10-28
STORE DATE: 2007-10-29
Track List:
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01. This Song Is Your Own 3:56
02. The Opposite Of Everything 3:33
03. Atom Bomb 3:59
04. A Melody 10 Years Long 3:43
05. Slowly Fizzy 4:31
06. The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off 4:01
07. Waxworks In The Sun 3:23
08. The Nova Scotia 4:36
09. Dapper Dan 3:39
10. Double The Part Of One 4:05
Release Notes:
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So, what do you do when you sign your first big record deal ?
Head for the bright lights of London, take the plaudits, and listen to everyone
telling you how wonderful you are ?
Not for Juno Falls frontman and songwriter Myles OÆReilly.
Packing his bags, Myles left behind his native Dublin and headed for the
tranquility of Dingle, on IrelandÆs rugged west coast. ôDonÆt get me wrongö,
says Myles, ôI love Dublin. It has a great energy and the music scene is very
healthy there, but for me the remoteness and honesty of somewhere like Dingle
makes the creative process so much more naturalö.
Living in Dingle while writing material for the new album brought itÆs own
perils. While returning to Dingle from Dublin in the early hours of a winterly
morning, Myles knew that he was almost home. The grey silhouette of Mount
Brandon loomed ahead, as the narrow country roads snaked onwards. Nearly there.
ôSuddenly IÆm fighting with the car, battling to keep it on the road. Failing!ö.
Upside down and compressed into the only space left inside the car, Myles
struggled to pull himself free. ôI remember making my way back onto the road and
looking back at what was left of the carö, he says. ôIt wasnÆt until several
days later that it dawned on me just how lucky I was to have walked away from it
without a scratchö.
ôSome of what I had been writing about prior to the crash now seemed trivial to
meö, says Myles. "I had been given a second chance. After the accident I became
more engaged with my art than ever before. It was imperative for me to immerse
myself in music and lyrics and to draw from every inspiration. The floodgates
were open".
Returning to Dublin several months later with a lap-top full of songs, Myles
began the process of ôputting meat on the bones of the songsö with the rest of
the band
"They brought something really special to the songs," explains Myles."They made
the songs sexy, adding a 'groove' and taking them out of the whole
singer-songwriter genreô.
Recorded at various points over the course of the last year, including Wicklow,
London, Dublin and Nashville, the result is a collection of beautifully crafted
songs, sometimes intimate, sometimes fragile, always honest and unmistakably
Juno Falls.
"I've always loved pop songs because they're braver than any other kind of
music: you're trying to be universal and appeal to a whole lot of people. But
there's a side of me that's always been attracted to the beauty and the sadness
of artists like Elbow or Rufus Wainwrightö.
Road-tested on a month-long tour of the UK and Ireland with Travis, the new
songs have already found their live legs. "Fran [Healy, Travis singer] heard
'The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off' on my Myspace page and liked it so much, he asked
us to come on tour with them," explains the frontman.