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Since his days with the genre-busting 1980s alternative rock outfit Camper Van Beethoven, David Lowery has been moving progressively toward a more roots-oriented, singer-songwriter sound. His later work with Cracker bears this out, and the band's 2006 release GREENLAND is Lowery's most stripped-down and straightforward to date, miles away from the grungey bombast of earlier releases.
Steeped in the sounds of folk and alt-country, with a touch of indie rock thrown in for balance, GREENLAND floats gently along the surface, yet there is a deeply personal undercurrent to nearly every song on the record. Lowery's songs explore themes of loss, heartbreak, and personal upheaval in a way that feels pointedly autobiographical, giving his clever, detail-rich lyrics an added poignancy. This is particularly notable for a band that's often big on tongue-in-cheek irony, and it is this poignancy that gives GREENLAND its winning edge.
Personnel: David Lowery (vocals, guitar, strings, piano, keyboards, synthesizer); Johnny Hickman (vocals, guitar); Alan Weatherhead (guitar, slide guitar, keyboards); Mark Linkous (guitar, synthesizer); David Immerglück (electric guitar); Margaret White (violin); Kenny Margolis (accordion, piano, keyboards); Craig Harmon (organ, keyboards); Lauren Hoffman (synthesizer, background vocals); Miguel Urbiztondo (drums, tabla, percussion); Frank Funaro (drums, percussion); John Morand (percussion); Casey Martin, Caitlin Cary (background vocals).
Photographer: Jonathan Segel.
CMJ (p.5) - "The stubborn sarcasm deep in Lowery's larnyx and the skillful veteran alt-rock instrumentation add more depth than any other surviving alt-rock also-ran..."
No Depression (p.110) - "Frontman David Lowery sounds more reflective than usual as he wonders whatever happened to his California heyday..." Greenland Music | List Price | $15.97 (You save $2.88) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Alternative | | Label | Cooking Vinyl | | Orig Year | 2006 | | All Time Sales Rank |  21803  | | CD Universe Part number | 7068716 | | Catalog number | 4777 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jun 06, 2006 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | David Lowery; John Morand; Alan Weatherhead; Mark Linkous | | Engineer | David Lowery; John Morand; Alan Weatherhead | | Personnel | David Immergluck - electric guitar
Frank Funaro - drums, percussion
David Lowery - vocals, guitar, strings, piano, keyboards, synthesizer
Kenny Margolis - accordion, piano, keyboards
Caitlin Cary - background vocals
Johnny Hickman - vocals, guitar
Mark Linkous - guitar, synthesizer
John Morand - percussion
Margaret White - violin
Alan Weatherhead - guitar, slide guitar, keyboards
Craig Harmon - organ, keyboards
Miguel Urbiztondo - drums, tabla, percussion
Casey Martin
Lauren Hoffman - synthesizer, background vocals
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Between 1967 and 2004, the SMILE sessions were pretty much the Dead Sea Scrolls of pop music. Well documented as head Beach Boy Brian Wilson's answer to the Beatles' masterpiece SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (which was itself largely an answer to the Beach Boys' PET SOUNDS), the tracks laid down in '67 for the projected SMILE album were the furthest afield anyone nominally operating under the pop/rock umbrella had ever ventured. Notoriously, intraband conflict (Mike Love, in particular, found the Wilson/Van Dyke Parks-penned conceptual work too far out) kept the record from being released. With several oceans' worth of water under the bridge, Wilson finally decided to finish the aborted project three-and-a-half decades later, adhering closely to the original blueprints. The results are as timelessly breathtaking as the original version must have been to the lucky few who first heard the initial tapes.
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This concert album captures prog-rockers Rick Wakeman and Dave Cousins in a live performance recorded in Exeter, England, in July 1988.
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