Off Tracking Betting_音乐专辑
Off Tracking Betting
表演者: Nels Andrews
发行时间: 2008-02-21
唱片数: 1
出版者: Reveal Records
条形码: 5060116090772
专辑简介
Nels' 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.
Classy Ryan Adams-style singer-songwriter fare from this fine exponent of contemporary Americana. Labels like Reveal and Fargo have this sort of material locked down - they've got the European end of this market well and truly cornered. This isn't the sort of Will Oldham end of the folk-country canon, but instead ploughs a far more mainstream furrow. That shouldn't be regarded as a necessarily bad thing however, because regardless of how straight and uncomplicated Andrews' writing might seem, it's not the sort of thing that ever gets old. Instrumentally, Off Track Betting holds your interest throughout, with an additional ten musicians lining up to help out on the album, yet somehow failing to overcrowd Andrews' central vocal and acoustic performances. 'Temple Incense' even makes use of some tuned wine glasses, a semi-experimental touch that doesn't pass by unnoticed. Similarly, you'll hear Arp synthesizer tweeting and oscillation at the beginning of 'Butterfly Wing', all of which helps to add a little texture to the arrangements, but these are all minor sideshows to Andrews' main achievement: his solid, unashamedly trad writing style. The parting shot 'Dollar And A Dream' is possibly the finest example of his gentle, poetic country sound, with a little slide guitar and an Emmylou Harris-style female backing vocal to bolster up his own thoroughly convincing performance.
曲目
1. Fever Dream
2. Temple Incense
3. Three Days
4. Lady of The Silver Spoon
5. Butterfly Wing
6. Rented White Sedan
7. Shoot Out The Stars
8. Sunday Shoes
9. Dollar And The Dream
