Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: Jennifer O'Connor Title: Over the Mountain Across the Valley & Back to the Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Matador Records Original Release Date: 1/1/2006 Re-Release Date: 8/22/2006 Genres: Alternative Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, Contemporary Folk, Singer-Songwriters Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 744861068624 |
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NYC-based vocalist/guitarist O'Connor's songs are elemental and emotionally charged, but also suffused with humor and the kind of melodic invention that transcends the underground rock 'n' roll thing. Her influences are ar... more » |
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Album Description NYC-based vocalist/guitarist O'Connor's songs are elemental and emotionally charged, but also suffused with humor and the kind of melodic invention that transcends the underground rock 'n' roll thing. Her influences are artists with a fresh take on self-awareness, from Destroyer, Silver Jews, Aimee Mann, and Smog, to Dylan and Petty, as well as Jay Z, Kanye West, and Dizzee Rascal. Featuring the bass stylings of James McNew (Yo La Tengo), the album also showcases Al Weatherhead on guitar, with keyboards and backing vocals by Kendall Meade (Sparklehorse, Helium), and the occasional backing vocals of Britt Daniel (Spoon). "Her music is laid back and literate...she often draws comparisons to Elliott Smith and old-school Liz Phair, and it's easy to see why. Her songs are simple, melodic, and direct, and her voice is raw and real" - Venus. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsGod keeps us guessing and I've been guessing hard SkewedPerspective-dbrowell | VA United States | 09/06/2006 (5 out of 5 stars) "I've been waiting for Jennifer O'Connor 's new album since I saw her open for Hotel Lights earlier this summer (7/15/06 @ The Flying Anvil; Greensboro, NC). She was a gracious, talented and touching musician who played alone on the stage that particular performance and impressed the hall of a couple dozen as the crowd built. By the end of her performance everyone was paying heavy attention, worried they missed too much by underestimating her.
Afterward, she was equally sweet and unassuming. She happily signed a poster for my daughter and chatted with Darren Jesse, who seem genuinely comforted by her presence on this first date of the short tour up the east coast. Now I can sit among the rainy windows and take in her new album with all of its bare honesty and telling rhymes. She's a singer-songwriter in the best sense- i.e., it's a sense of her own. The album is perfectly produced, which is to say it isn't over-produced and instead showcases an intimacy that nearly produces a feeling of her breath from the speakers, as if she was singing over your shoulder (particularly on tracks like "Today"). I'd be remiss to not comment on the content of the album, and you know what, I think I'll risk just being remiss. (Pitchfork liked the LP and covers this subject if you're interested.) Suffice to say that in terms of lyrics this album speaks to loss in the same personal and nuanced way that the Eels' Electroshock Blues did. But this album isn't about what we think of Jennifer's life, it's about what we feel when we listen to her express herself. And I find it beautiful." |
