Jennifer O'Connor "Over the Mountain. Across the Valley and Back to the Stars." CD (2006)
Details: Jennifer O'Connor "Over the Mountain. Across the Valley and Back to the Stars." CD (Matador, 2006). Clear plastic case. Sticker included. Previously owned item.
Description: "Over The Mountain, Across The Valley and Back To The Stars is the 3rd full-length album from Jennifer O’Connor, but it has the immediacy of a debut. Her life saw many personal upheavals which informed it more than she expected. “I wouldn’t say that I always write from experience, but I did a lot of it on this record.” For her most emotional songs yet, she self-produced and got rid of reverb and extraneous sounds, giving them an urgency that her other records didn’t always have. She explains, “There’s a lot of space; we purposefully pared everything down to what was necessary for the song.”
While Jennifer writes (and often performs) alone on guitar, each song here (save the acoustic single-take “Today”) is fleshed out with a band that includes her longtime drummer Jon Langmead, James McNew (Yo La Tengo) on bass, Kendall Meade (Sparklehorse) on keyboards & vocals, and other friends including Britt Daniel (Spoon) on vocals, and Al Weatherhead, who produced Color & plays guitar on many tracks. The record was recorded by Jim Bentley at The Fort in Brooklyn."
Grade: VG+/VG
TRACK LISTING:
01. Century Estates
02. Dirty City Blues
03. Exeter, Rhode Island
04. Sister
05. Today
06. Bullshit Maze
07. Complicated Rhyme
08. I Was So Wrong
09. Turn It Down
10. Perfect Match
11. Tonight We Ride
12. I'll Bring You Home