That sweet Rachael Yamagata released «Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart» in October 2008, and it’s an album [aah, well it’s two albums actually...] filled with songs that at least warm up a snow-filled, Norwegian winter. Her voice reminds me slightly of Cat Power’s; it is deep, balm-like and jazzy, without the performed music actually being jazz – mind you. As mentioned this album is actually two – and the first ten tracks touches the listener slowly and delicately; tracks like «Elephants», «Sunday Afternoon», «Duet» [with Ray LaMontagne, another of my favourite artists] and «Horizon» stand out to me, but these are all fabulous songs. On the second part – which contain the last five songs – called...Teeth Sinking Into Heart, she speeds up the tempo, and proves that she can sound angry, however though, in a very appealing manner too.
I am the first to admit that I’m overjoyed having discovered Rachael and her music.
Read about Rachael on Wikipedia, check out a review at AllMusic – and another one from a (fellow) blogger in Malaysia. And she is just clicks away on MySpace and at LastFM.
Tracklist:
01. «Elephants» – 4:14
02. «What If I Leave» – 5:03
03. «Little Life» – 4:07
04. «Sunday Afternoon» – 9:04
05. «Elephants (Instrumental)» – 1:46
06. «Duet» – 4:01
07. «Over And Over» – 5:25
08. «Brown Eyes» – 3:46
09. «Horizon» – 8:15
10. «The Only Fault» – 4:04
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11. «Sidedish Friend» – 3:00
12. «Accident» – 4:09
13. «Faster» – 3:50
14. «Pause The Tragic End» – 4:42
15. «Don’t» – 3:09
1 comment:
OMG...I love Rachael Yamagata too!! She is a living musical goddess, oh yes she is...ahahah
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