Track Listings (10) - Disc #1| All Artists: Josephine Foster Title: This Coming Gladness Members Wishing: 4 Total Copies: 0 Label: Bo Weavil Recordings Original Release Date: 1/1/2008 Re-Release Date: 7/22/2008 Genres: Alternative Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock Styles: Contemporary Folk, Folk Rock Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 5024545516920 |
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This is Colorado-based Josephine Foster's (Born Heller, The Supposed) debut release for Bo Weavil Recordings, and her third full-length album. This Coming Gladness is the highly-awaited follow-up to 2006's A Wolf In Sheep'... more » |
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Album Description This is Colorado-based Josephine Foster's (Born Heller, The Supposed) debut release for Bo Weavil Recordings, and her third full-length album. This Coming Gladness is the highly-awaited follow-up to 2006's A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing on Locust. This Coming Gladness is transcendental fin de si?cle songs from one of the great unsung voices and songwriters of our modern times. Josephine Foster unites rarely united royal realms: self-penned operatic art songs cast in freely-rendered blues with electric guitars and drums beating the path along with harp and piano flourishes. She has a voice that was trained for opera, but creaks like ancient mountain folk floating out from a dusty Victrola. She surpasses any "weird-folk" labelling through the sheer timelessness of her songcraft -- making baroque balladry sound new yet remembered from some not-too distant shared American past. Joining her on this recording is electric guitarist Victor Herrero and drummer Alex Nielson. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsJosephine's latest will not disappoint her fans. William J. Walker | England | 11/19/2008 (5 out of 5 stars) "A couple of years ago I had the pleasure of discovering this artist by way of her 2005 release "Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You" it took a few plays but I grew to love that album with a passion that has led me to purchase everything released by her that I could get my hands on. She followed "Hazel Eyes I Will Lead You" with "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" (German folk balladry with grungy guitar) and if ever an album could be designed to keep an artist away from any sort of mainstream acceptance then that surely was it.
So to this album, well I love it but I'm talking from the perspective of a convert. I'm not convinced that this will appeal so easily to newcomers. The songs are excellent but the strange combination of JF's unique voice over sparse acoustic arrangements interwoven with what, at first listen, seems a rather intrusive electric guitar, will make this a hard listen for most. It took a couple of listens but it has won me over and I would recommend it to those who have enjoyed her earlier work. In conclusion I would say that I still think "Hazel Eyes I Will Lead You" is her best to date and possibly the best starting point for the uninitiated(although those preferring a more electrified sound should check out the brilliant "All the Leaves Are Gone")But if you already know(and like) the artist then I'd give this a wholehearted recommendation." |
