Twilight_Hotel-Highway_Prayer-2008-404

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MP3/FLAC

Group

404

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70,07 MB

Files

13

Date

2008-08-04

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ARTiST: Twilight Hotel
ALBUM: Highway Prayer
BiTRATE: 157kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Corazong
GENRE: Indie
SiZE: 73.47 megs
PLAYTiME: 1h 01min 35sec total
RiP DATE: 2008-08-05
STORE DATE: 2008-06-06

Track List:
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01. Viva La Vinyl                    3:50
02. No Place for a Woman             4:33
03. Impatient Love                   4:49
04. Highway Prayer                   4:26
05. Slumber Queen                    4:26
06. Iowalta Morningside              5:43
07. Ballad of Salvador and Isabelle  5:14
08. Shadow of a Man                  4:18
09. Critic                           5:05
10. If It Won't Kill You             5:15
11. Sometimes I Get a Little Lonely  4:07
12. Sand in Your Eyes                4:52
13. Untitled                         4:57

Release Notes:
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Highway Prayer, the second album from CanadaÆs first couple of
alt-retro-countrified folk is full of splendid love tokens and mysteriously
menacing stories. The perky opening mission statement of viva la vinyl doesnÆt
quite set the tone for the doomier sensitivities of the rest of the (long)
record. ThereÆs hints of a classic 1950s/ early 60s melody and sound, made fully
modern by the his and hers voices, both of which have a little something unique.
They work together well, as on æImpatient loveÆ, a song George and Tammy might
have covered on a peaceful day.

The album doesnÆt quite hang together coherently; the shift in style of æhighway
prayerÆ, with its Angelo Badalamenti abstraction, doesnÆt seem to fit with the
messy barroom era Tom Waits sound which dominates elsewhere.

The temptation of working with your lover must be to fill an album with
confessional love songs, but the personal is counterbalanced with a political
and social conscious, most notably on the somewhat overlong and Ricky
Valance-ish misery of ôthe Ballad of Salvador and Isabelleö and on Slumber
Queen.

This is a fine, exciting record.

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