Ryley Walker - Golden Sings That Have Been Sung (Deep Cuts Edition) '2016

Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. The Halfwit in Me 05:54
02. A Choir Apart 03:11
03. Funny Thing She Said 06:27
04. Sullen Mind 06:32
05. I Will Ask You Twice 02:02
06. The Roundabout 04:41
07. The Great and Undecided 03:39
08. Age Old Tale 08:12
09. Sullen Mind (Live at SiriusXM The Loft) 41:01

The preceding years have been extraordinary for Ryley Walker. In March, his
second album, Primrose Green, emerged to critical hosannas from the likes of
NPR, Village Voice, Uncut, and Mojo - in the process, earning admiration of
musicians who had chalked up no shortage of turntable miles in Walkers life.
Robert Plant declared himself a fan - as did double-bass legend Danny Thompson,
with whom Ryley would later embark on a British tour. A sprawling tour of the
USA around Primrose Green presented a perfect chance to workshop ideas for what
would eventually become his third studio album, Golden Sings That Have Been
Sung. On the album, The Roundabout represents a symbolic return to Chicago,
while other songs are directly wedded to Ryleys actual return there. Perhaps
more than any other song on the record, the somnambulant sun-dappled intimacies
of opening track The Halfwit In Me most audibly bear the imprint of Ryleys
improvisational sessions with Wilco multi-instrumentalist, Chicagoan and
producer Leroy Bach, while Funny Thing She Said is an unflinching study of
separation set to a shimmeringly supple ensemble performance. Soft, slo-mo
explosions of melody intermittently burst through the distant thunder of the
verses on A Choir Apart. Intriguing, surreal images are meted out by I Will Ask
You Twice, like a malfunctioning slide projector; and, perhaps best of all, the
stunning finale, Age Old Tale, which spiders out from an Alice Coltrane-inspired
reverie into a sustained rapture that very few artists have managed to achieve.

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