ARTiST: Nels Andrews
ALBUM: Off Track Betting
BiTRATE: 187kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Reveal
GENRE: Rock
SiZE: 54.82 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 38min 28sec total
RiP DATE: 2008-02-27
STORE DATE: 2008-03-03
Track List:
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01. Fever Dream 4:20
02. Temple Incense 4:45
03. Three Days 4:32
04. Lady Of The Silver Spoon 4:49
05. Butterfly Wing 3:11
06. Rented White Sedan 4:01
07. Shoot Out The Stars 3:15
08. Sunday Shoes 6:06
09. Dollar And The Dream 3:29
Release Notes:
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Sparsely arranged, slyly intelligent country-folk stuffed with juniper winds,
Juarez jails and long women in short dresses, delivered with all the gruff
urgency of Tom Waits over lap steel and ruptured guitar.
For his 2005 debut Nels harnessed the sounds of the desert; here on Off Track
Betting heÆs kept that basic sound but tampered with it somewhat by adding some
odd instruments and assorted percussion . These changes are probably in part due
to his recent move to NYC and the addition of a known producer in Todd
Sickafoose. The new sounds mimic some of what you might hear in a busy city so
that makes sense.
Nels Andrews û ôThe last couple years for me have been a life in the margins,
sleeping on floors and in parking lots, slipping in and out of bars and coffee
shops in towns that barely knew I was there. IÆd lived this marginal life
before, in my early twenties, chasing Kerouac down the road, working itinerant
jobs in the canneries of Alaska and planting trees in the forests of South
Dakota. In this way, my past laid the road before me, easing the transition
from the between years, when I was deep-rooted in the desert, to the well-worn
boots of a troubadour, the oneÆs IÆve been wearing lately. IÆve found a
romantic optimism that comes from distance, and saw it in the Off Track Betting
house downstairs from my apartment in Brooklyn.
When I landed last year in this new big city hometown, I was hit with a whole
new set of textures, and rhythms; to counter these I sought solace in abandoned
piers and rooftops, replacing the mesas and sagebrush oceans of New Mexico.
These songs are voices from a campground in the desert winter, from behind the
wheel of a yellow cab, of driving a rented car through the streets of a town
that froze in time and still treats you like a stranger. These songs are hymns
to that place, when youÆre not lost, but youÆre not quite there yet, when all
you can do is know deep down that the next exit must be yours, ôscreaming like
a blind man at the racesö.
NelsÆ first album, Sunday Shoes, released independently in 2005, was picked by
BBC2\'s legendary DJ Bob Harris as his Album of the Year. .
Fast forward to today, and the release Andrew\'s second record, Off Track
Betting, produced by Todd Sickafoose and due to be released March this year on
Reveal Records and is set to be one of the landmark Americana releases of 2008.
The new songs were recorded in Brooklyn at Trout Studios, and now spring from
the textures and rhythms of New York City, as seen from the abandoned piers and
rooftops as a new form of the red desert dust and sagebrush oceans.