Kathryn Williams - Dog Leap Stairs '1999

Artist	Kathryn Williams Related artists
Album name	Dog Leap Stairs
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Date	1999
Genre	Folk
Play time	32:15
Format / Bitrate	FLAC Stereo 765 Kbps / 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps
Media	CD
Size	177.46 Mb
Price	$2.95

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	1. songwriter earned laudatory comparisons to Joni Mitchell and Nick Drake. To be sure, there is some of each of those artists in Dog Leap Stairs. As with Drake's Five Leaves Left, some of Williams' songs are dusted with delicate, Baroque touches of stunning incandescence, and like the most intimate recordings from Mitchell, the recording feels at times as if you are being ushered into the most private confessions of the songwriter. But while those allusions work for various brief stretches, a much more apt reference for Williams' method is the early Velvet Underground, particularly the Nico-fronted band of the first album, as well as Nico's own first solo LP, Chelsea Girl. The sentiment throughout Dog Leap Stairs is certainly not as taciturn and emotionally tranquilizing as those albums, but the music is often just as sparse and the melodies as affectingly brittle . Williams' performance, on the other hand, is so achingly soulful that the songs ultimately feel life-affirming, even during the album's most baldly painful or darkly tethered moments, and even when it threatens to placidly vanish beneath its own bashfulness. There is nothing, in other words, brutal about the album's beauty; to the contrary, it is ultimately entrancing. In any event, the acclaim was merited. It is delightful, yes. It is charming. But Dog Leap Stairs, beneath its sedated surface, has teeth, too
	2. Tracklist:
	3. 1.01 - - Leazes Park
	4. 1.02 - - Night Came
	5. 1.03 - - What Am I Doing Here?
	6. 1.04 - - No-One To Blame
	7. 1.05 - - Something Like That
	8. 1.06 - - Lydia
	9. 1.07 - - Handy
	10. 1.08 - - Dog Without Wings
	11. 1.09 - - Fade
	12. 1.10 - - Madmen And Maniacs