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Nerissa & Katryna Nields
This Town Is Wrong
Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (13) - Disc #1
1. The Day I Let Glory Steer
2. Glow-In-The-Dark Plastic Angel
3. The Work That We Do
4. When I Let You Into My Closet
5. Haven't I Been Good
6. Clairman Town
7. Paris
8. Sara, With Your Ring
9. When I'm Here
10. If I Wanted To
11. Kiss Me On The Moon
12. This Town Is Wrong
13. Bonus Track 1

CD Details

All Artists: Nerissa & Katryna Nields
Title: This Town Is Wrong
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rounder / Umgd
Original Release Date: 1/1/2000
Re-Release Date: 1/13/2004
Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock
Styles: Americana, Contemporary Folk, Folk Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 601143104220

Synopsis

Amazon.com

With this follow-up to 2002's Love and China, the thematically adventurous Massachusetts-based duo turns its songwriting and trilling sisterly harmonies toward the uncertain, often tumultuous world of female adolescence. The Nields sisters occasionally get a trifle erudite on songs like "Plastic Angel" and "The Day I Let Glory Steer." They are more successful when they grapple more viscerally with the perils of teenage intimacy ("When I Let You into My Closet") or the struggle for personal liberation from small-town minds (title tune). And when they deliver a tour de force like the affirming country ballad "When I'm Here," their intertwined voices ring not only with occasional anger and well-aimed sarcasm, but also empathy and passion. --Bob Allen

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CD Reviews

This Town Is Wrong, but the CD is so very right

Adam Hartfield | Springfield, MA | 01/14/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I've tried three times now to write a track-by-track review. Forget it. Nerissa does a better job in the liner notes."Intensely personal songs combined with an aware Weltanschauung" is applicable to this album but you'll forget whatever highbrow analysis you've read (or tried to write) as soon as you start listening. All the songs are great. On this album, Nerissa and Katryna (and Dave Chalfant) fuse their rock-folk-country-blues-pop influences even tighter together to make Music You Like. The sisters' voices blend in that irresistable harmony that once you hear, you'll never forget. Their singing and the musicians' playing combined with Dave's producing genius and uncompromising stratospheric production value standards result in one of the best albums you'll hear for a long time. It gains my highest recommendation."

More Nields is good news

JoAnn Whetsell | Seattle, WA | 03/29/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"As has been said before, the songs on _This Town Is Wrong_ relate to Nerissa's book of the same name. I don't think each song is by a different character (as I first thought when I read reviews), but rather the songs are by different characters, and some have more than one. Not that it makes any difference. You can enjoy the album without having read the book or even knowing about it. The sisters go back to their rocking days, and the album sounds more like the Nields band than the duo's release. The country influence is still there, even stronger on songs like "When I'm Here" and "Sara, With Your Ring" and present, but in more country-folk format on other songs. Overall it's grown and continues to grow on me, though the roughness the sisters' voices sometimes have grates on me a bit more than usual. I'm happy to have a whole album full of their insights on teenagers (from the perspective of both teenagers and adults.) The Nields have brought us so many great songs about teenagers (much of _Gotta Get Over Greta_ springs to the top of my head; there are many others) it seems like they're the right people to do it. Right now it's my least favorite of any of the Nields releases I've heard, but considering how much I love their music, it's the difference between a "B" and an "A." I still like _This Town Is Wrong_ a lot and heartily recommend it."

This town rocks

JoAnn Whetsell | 01/21/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Nields sisters have outdone themselves this time. You don't have to know that the album is the soundtrack to a book to enjoy this wonderful set of songs, but the background enhances the experience even more. The songs on the album were supposedly written by two different characters in the book, yet somehow Nerissa has managed to make it completely clear which are which. And the sibling harmonies have never sounded more beautiful.Dave Chalfant is one of the most exciting producers out there today. This is the most gorgeous sounding album yet from any incarnation of the Nields, with sounds we haven't heard in their work before.A must-buy!!!"