Dawes - Stories Don't End (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Remixed & Remastered! '2024

Tracks list

Stories Don't End, the third outing from breezy Los Angeles-based retro-rockers
Dawes, takes its name from a line in author Joan Didion's 1984 wartime novel
Democracy. It's an enigmatic phrase to be sure, but it certainly applies to the
group's penchant for crafting highly literate slabs of smooth, West Coast
Americana out of the highway wreckage left behind by artists like the Eagles,
the Little River Band, Poco, Jackson Browne, and Gram Parsons. Less overtly
Laurel Canyon-centric than 2011's Nothing Is Wrong, due in some part to the East
Coast Blue Ridge Mountain locale in which it was birthed, the album keeps the
band's classic rock underpinnings intact, yielding a fresh catch of smooth and
soulful, largely midtempo offerings that focus on substance over style, relying
primarily on the strength of the tasteful, measured arrangements and bandleader
Taylor Goldsmith's easy voice and crafty wordplay. Stories Don't End barely
registers upon the first spin (it's easy pop for the millennial generation), but
if given the time to percolate, it produces a damn fine cup of coffee. This
adherence to familiar singer/songwriter tropes is best exemplified on tracks
like the rolling "From a Window Seat (Rivers and Freeways)," which echoes
Midlake's "Roscoe," the Ben Folds-esque "Just My Luck," and the lovely,
mid-record ballad "Something in Common," the latter of which frames Goldsmith's
tale of hope and heartache in the reassuring glow of vibrato guitar, simple kick
and snare, and a melody that sounds like it floated out of the studio sessions
for Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Dawes - Just Beneath The Surface (4:09) 
1.02 - Dawes - From A Window Seat (4:28) 
1.03 - Dawes - Just My Luck (4:06) 
1.04 - Dawes - Someone Will (3:33) 
1.05 - Dawes - Most People (4:31) 
1.06 - Dawes - Something In Common (5:12) 
1.07 - Dawes - Hey Lover (2:47) 
1.08 - Dawes - Bear Witness (4:18) 
1.09 - Dawes - Stories Don't End (5:00) 
1.10 - Dawes - From The Right Angle (4:11) 
1.11 - Dawes - Side Effects (5:42) 
1.12 - Dawes - Just Beneath the Surface (Reprise) (3:17) 
1.13 - Dawes - From the Right Angle (Blake Mills Rough Mix) (6:00) 
1.14 - Dawes - Something In Common (Blake Mills Rough Mix) (5:09) 
1.15 - Dawes - From a Window Seat (Blake Mills Rough Mix) (5:01) 
1.16 - Dawes - Picture Of A Man (SDE B-Side) (4:32) 
1.17 - Dawes - Most People (early demo) (4:58) 
1.18 - Dawes - Just Beneath the Surface (early demo) (5:03)

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