UPDATE:The album is here! I updated her tour dates below and AOL is streaming the album, here. It's beautiful, subtle and tear inducing. Listen to the two part as a whole, the first might wreck your emotion, but the second will lift you up triumphantly.
The ever lovely and mellow Rachael Yamagata is coming out with a A Record in Two Parts: Elephants... and Teeth Sinking Into Heart. When discussing her new album, a first in three years after her debut full-length, Happenstance, she explained that the album wasn't set out to be in two parts but that in the process of writing and recording it all just worked out. She added, "Elephants is much more intimate. It’s about being willing to take a risk even if it’s not going to end up well. Teeth... is like rediscovering your backbone after you’ve gone through the loss".
After listening to two songs from the two different parts of the album, while the moods are polar opposites, I think they compliment each other gracefully. There's a certain sincerity that I enjoy coming out of her music and is the reason that I think her fans look forward to her work. I will share my thoughts when the album comes out on October 7, 2008.
For now, check out:
Elephants.mov
Sidedish Friend.mov
She's going on tour to promote her new album. Be sure to catch her show(s):
October 7 - Largo at the Coronet - Los Angeles, CA
October 28 - 9:30 Club - Washington DC
October 30 - Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY
October 31 - Paradise - Boston, MA
November 1 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY
November 3 - Bogart’s Front Room - Cincinnati, OH
November 5 - Park West - Chicago, IL
November 6 - Varsity Theater - Minneapolis, MN
November 7 - High Noon - Madison, WI
November 8 - Blueberry Hill - St. Louis, MI
November 9 - Liberty Hall - Lawrence, KS
November 11 - Bluebird - Denver, CO
November 12 - Avalon Theater - Salt Lake City, UT
November 13 - Knitting Factory Concert House - Boise, ID
November 15 - Chop Suey - Seattle, WA
November 17 - Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA
November 18 - Henry Fonda Theater - Los Angeles, CA
The ever lovely and mellow Rachael Yamagata is coming out with a A Record in Two Parts: Elephants... and Teeth Sinking Into Heart. When discussing her new album, a first in three years after her debut full-length, Happenstance, she explained that the album wasn't set out to be in two parts but that in the process of writing and recording it all just worked out. She added, "Elephants is much more intimate. It’s about being willing to take a risk even if it’s not going to end up well. Teeth... is like rediscovering your backbone after you’ve gone through the loss".
After listening to two songs from the two different parts of the album, while the moods are polar opposites, I think they compliment each other gracefully. There's a certain sincerity that I enjoy coming out of her music and is the reason that I think her fans look forward to her work. I will share my thoughts when the album comes out on October 7, 2008.
For now, check out:
Elephants.mov
Sidedish Friend.mov
She's going on tour to promote her new album. Be sure to catch her show(s):
October 7 - Largo at the Coronet - Los Angeles, CA
October 28 - 9:30 Club - Washington DC
October 30 - Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY
October 31 - Paradise - Boston, MA
November 1 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY
November 3 - Bogart’s Front Room - Cincinnati, OH
November 5 - Park West - Chicago, IL
November 6 - Varsity Theater - Minneapolis, MN
November 7 - High Noon - Madison, WI
November 8 - Blueberry Hill - St. Louis, MI
November 9 - Liberty Hall - Lawrence, KS
November 11 - Bluebird - Denver, CO
November 12 - Avalon Theater - Salt Lake City, UT
November 13 - Knitting Factory Concert House - Boise, ID
November 15 - Chop Suey - Seattle, WA
November 17 - Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA
November 18 - Henry Fonda Theater - Los Angeles, CA
It should work now. Thanks for letting me know.
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- posted on 09/11/08