ARTiST: Adrian Crowley
ALBUM: Season Of The Sparks
BiTRATE: 170kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Chemikal Underground
GENRE: Indie
SiZE: 46.96 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 36min 21sec total
RiP DATE: 2009-11-24
STORE DATE: 2009-10-20
Track List:
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01. Summer Haze Parade 3:31
02. The Beekeeper's Wife 3:47
03. The Wishing Seat 4:29
04. The Three Sisters 3:32
05. Squeeze Bees 4:35
06. Liberty Stream 4:53
07. Horses Like To Dream All Night 2:20
08. Season Of The Sparks 3:02
09. Swedish Room 2:14
10. Pay No Mind (To The Dawn Cryer) 3:58
Release Notes:
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Communicating a moroseness and morbid introspection equalled in recent times
only by Noah and the WhaleÆs Charlie Fink, this Co Galway singer-songwriter
follows last yearÆs Long Distance Swimmer with a release that is even more
low-key and haunting than that wonderful album. A prolonged sigh for summers
gone, Season of the Sparks shimmers and hums with regret, CrowleyÆs poetry
combining, on songs such as The BeekeeperÆs Wife, The Wishing Seat and a cover
of Ivor CutlerÆs Squeeze Bees, with icy strings, anchoring organ and mournful
washes of harmonium to create something spare, ghostly and beautiful. On The
Three Sisters, CrowleyÆs fingerpicked guitar and doleful vocal nestle in a bed
of violin and viola; the story ù of magnetic but possibly malevolent siblings ù
is like a Paula Rego painting set to music. A great album.