Easy Listening & Folk Records:

Hello Love

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One of the reasons why Hello Love is so much more positive is that it feels as though the band have cast off expectations entirely, and decided to focus on writing new songs that follow their compositional instincts, as well as picking two covers (amongst others) which reflect their own highbrow / playful tastes and a determination to break genre walls at the same time as flaunting their righteous cultural relativism. Hello Love is perhaps best viewed as the album The Be Good Tanyas just made because they could- it feels like a rediscovery of their love for what they do, and a melding of their shiny pop instincts with their dark heart.

Review:

British Columbia's Be Good Tanyas took their bluesy, north country folk to some fairly dark places on 2003's Chinatown, and while some of those shadows may have wandered into the studio during the recording of their third full-length collection Hello Love, the homespun Canadian trio seem bent on pulling the blinds up this time around and letting the world sneak back in. Frazey Ford, Samantha Parton and Trish Klein harmonize like opposing weather systems, they've all got the same goods but there's a little bit of pushback going on that helps keep things dangerous. For the most part, the ladies have chosen not to stray too far from their plainclothes rootsy sound, and while that may disappoint some fans, there's enough quality stuff here to light a fire in every train yard oil drum from Vancouver to Halifax. Hello Love works best when the whole gang pipes in, and a choice cover of Neil Young's “For the Turnstiles” delivers that effect in earnest. Tight, bluesy harmonies that are as spooky as they are lovely paint a picture of utter desolation that sounds as good turned up real damn loud as it does crackling through an old Victrola. Other covers, like fellow Canadian folkie Sean Hayes' “A Thousand Tiny Pieces,” Mississippi John Hurt's “Nobody Cares for Me,” and a rendition of the old gospel number “What Are They Doing in Heaven Today” resonate as well, but a misplaced version of Prince's “When Doves Cry” sticks out like a purple barn.
All Music Guide – James Christopher Monger

Track Listing:

Disc 1:
  1. Human Thing
  2. For The Turnstiles
  3. A Thousand Tiny Pieces
  4. Ootischenia
  5. A Little Blues
  6. Scattered Leaves
  7. Hello Love
  8. Nobody Cares For Me
  9. Out Of The Wilderness
  10. Song For R.
  11. What Are They Doing In Heaven Today
  12. Crow Waltz
  13. When Doves Cry
Release date Australia
September 1st, 2013
Album Length (Minutes)
50:16
Label
Nettwerk
Number of Discs
1
Original Release Year
2006
Box Dimensions (mm)
142x125x5
Product ID
21705778

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