Bonnie Prince Billy
Letting Go
1 x LP
standard 33⅓rpm
2006 UK 12track vinyl LP Recorded in Iceland the glacial dramatic & epic surroundings have influenced the record drenching it in longing & passion with new voice & strings woven through producing the most fully realised Bonnie Prince Billy album yet ...
Release date 14092006
2006 UK 12track vinyl LP Recorded in Iceland the glacial dramatic & epic surroundings have influenced the record drenching it in longing & passion with new voice & strings woven through producing the most fully realised Bonnie Prince Billy album yet including the single Cursed Sleep picture sleeve sealed
Tracks
01 Love Comes To Me
02 Strange Form Of Life
03 Wai
04 Cursed Sleep
05 No Bad News
06 Cold And Wet
07 Big Friday
08 Lay And Love
09 Seedling
10 Then The Letting Go
11 Gods Small Song
12 I Called You Back
Letting Go is a significant step for Oldham it is sung mostly as duets and features more instrumentation and variety than the minimal earlier albums And it mostly works brilliantly
Although almost lush at times embellished by guitars or with the rumble of dark percussion on the excellent The Seedling for instance it would be a mistake to think this is a total change of tack and the songwriting is at times as clear and postic as on Master And Everyone However the album is also imbued with a vague sense of strangeness the backing vocals of Dawn McCarthy are sweet but somehow slightly disconnected and the very English folk lilt of her voice is an effective counterpoint to Oldhams sweet lisp BA Woodhouse
Drager(LP,EP,12,7,CD): LP
Qual(120grs,150grs,180grs): standard
Speed(33,45): 33
Label: domino
This release: 2001
