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“This record is the dark of the night. It’s the sound of someone climbing into bed. The soundtrack of the time in between when the candle burns out and your dreams begin. The time of night when all we have tried to bury comes back to us masked in midnight mind stories. Light the fire, pour up one more, draw the curtains and tuck in.” Says Canadian songstress Amy Millan about her sophomore solo album MASTERS OF THE BURIAL, following her 2006 solo debut, HONEY FROM THE TOMBS, outside of her stellar work with Stars and Broken Social Scene.
While her 2006 solo debut peppered its country-ish crooning with the swooning rock of her friends in Broken Social Scene, this follow-up burrows back to a pre-indie rock period and seems to be returning to well-mined, familiar ground.
“The songs I penned myself came from a time of flux, trying to get to the bottom of what “home” really means. The same questions kept coming up for me; where do we stash the collection of betrayals and disappointments we carry through our lives? If you find yourself miles away from a person with whom your communication has become crooked and bent, can you ever find your way back? Do we ever actually “get over” anything?“
Like her debut, MASTERS OF THE BURIAL contains a number of covers includes interpretations of Death Cab For Cutie’s ‘I Will Follow You Into The Dark‘ and ‘Old Perfume‘ by Sarah Harmer and features guest performances, Marc Roy (guitar), Dean Stone of Apostle of Hustle (drums), Kevin Fox (cello), and Genevieve Walker (violin), close friends like Leslie Feist, Ariel Engle and Jenny Whiteley, gave their contributions to the album too.
Millan’s own compositions fit in well with her covers; understated and peaceful, Millan’s sweet pretty voice contributes to the album’s overall intimate feel: quiet, delicate and pleasant, she never pushes her voice for dramatic effect.
MASTERS OF THE BURIAL would be the perfect soundtrack for an intimate evening, a whiskey in your hand, following Millan’s whispering voice into the dark…
About the author : Alias is a French self-made-man, multi-talented artist, he is also a music-producer, screen writer and artistic director for films. Read more from this author
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