Joshua James - From the Top of Willamette Mountain [2012] [FLAC] torrent

Artist: Release: From the Top of Willamette Mountain
MusicBrainz: 883cf3cb-fb40-406a-b480-96f14741e119
Released: 2012-11-06
Label: Intelligent Noise Records
Catalog#: INR-1043
Country: US
Packaging: Digipak

Tracklisting:

01. Mystic (04:03)
02. Queen of the City (03:19)
03. Surrender (03:31)
04. Doctor, Oh Doctor (03:13)
05. So Did I (03:10)
06. Willamette Mtn (03:28)
07. Ghost in the Town (02:59)
08. Sister (02:57)
09. Wolves (03:07)
10. Holly, Halej (03:36)
11. Feel the Same (03:54)

Willamette Mountain is the name US singer-songwriter Joshua James gives to his home in Utah, where he keeps goats and chickens and grows his own vegetables, a close-to-the-land existence that affords him ample opportunity to contemplate the cycles of life and death. Which he does, on his third album, with an earnestness that often comes across as maudlin. He sings of dying alone, of not believing in much, and of a darkness inside his heart, all in a voice that dips, rasps and soars much the way Marcus Mumford's does. To temper the melancholy, the music offers sentimentality, in the syrupy 1950s romance that oozes across Surrender's waltzing piano or the title track's country chords. Now and again James startles you with a different sound, something more reminiscent of Elliott Smith. It's in the burnished chorus of So Did I and the subdued snarl and echoing chords of Sister, and suggests that he's still searching for who he might be.

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