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Emily Jane White – Victorian America (2009)

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Emily Jane White – Victorian America (2009)

Emily Jane White – Victorian America (2009)
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Genre: Indie rock, Indie pop, Folk rock, Neofolk, Acoustic, Singer-songwriter, Female vocalist
Label: Talitres Records | # Tal-050 | Time: 01:00:52

Emily Jane White – Victorian America (2009)

Victorian America is the second album by American dark folk singer-songwriter Emily Jane White released on October 9, 2009, in France by Talitres Records.
Emily Jane White – Victorian America (2009)

California-based singer/songwriter Emily Jane White’s windswept blend of bluesy, brooding folk and gothic Americana made for a heady 2009 debut that drew comparisons to midnight crooners like Jesse Sykes, Cat Power, and Nina Nastasia. For her sophomore release, the endlessly lonely yet undeniably lovely Victorian America, White sticks with the formula, and ekes out another quiet triumph. Her musical arsenal echoes her eternally haunted protagonists, and while softly strummed acoustic guitar serves as the wave on which each track is carried, it’s Jen Grady (cello), Henry Nagle (pedal steel), and Carey Lamprecht (violin) who call the tides in and out. White makes no bones about her love of darkness, as evidenced on opening number “Never Dead,” a lament for a successfully suicidal friend (“Just last night/Bad news/It blew right through me”). It’s a bold way to start off a journey, but one that dutifully weeds out the ambulance gawkers from the spirit seekers. The rest of Victorian America doesn’t disappoint. The languid title cut, a melancholy yet utterly compelling and cinematic ode to a Louisiana flood, drifts on by like an abandoned riverboat; the epic "Red Dress" crawls out of the desert like a lost track from Nick Cave’s No More Shall We Part; and gorgeous closer “Ghost of a Horse” feels oddly triumphant, despite the fact that the brokenhearted narrator’s “chest wants to cave in.”
Review by James Christopher Monger, Allmusic.com
Emily Jane White is a singer/songwriter from California who released her debut album in 2007. Influenced by American blues and folk music tradition along with contemporary female singer/songwriters such as PJ Harvey and Kate Bush, she has been compared to Chan Marshall of Cat Power and Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star. While studying at the University of California Santa Cruz during the early 2000s, White fronted a band called the Diamond Star Halos and began developing her craft as a singer/songwriter. After college she moved to France for a while and established herself as a solo artist. Upon returning to California in 2006 and basing herself in San Francisco, she collaborated with producer Wainwright Hewlett on her full-length album debut, Dark Undercoat (2007). Released initially on the Oakland, CA-based label Double Negative Records, Dark Undercoat was subsequently licensed for international release by the label Talitres in 2008 and reached number 143 on the French albums chart. Her sophomore effort, Victorian American, was released on Talitres in France in 2009, and on Milan in the United States in early 2010.

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Tracklist:


1. Never Dead - 3:30
2. Stairs- 6:03
3. Victorian America - 4:20
4. Baby - 4:53
5. Frozen Heart - 5:36
6. The Country Life - 4:11
7. Liza - 3:58
8. The Ravens - 7:11
9. Red Serpent - 3:44
10. Red Dress - 6:49
11. A Short Rang Out - 4:36
12. Ghost Of A Horse - 5:54


Personnel:

Josh Fossgreen - bass (upright)
Jennifer Grady - arranger, cello, vocals
Ross Harris - arranger, drums, mixing
Wainwright Hewlett - producer, engineer, mixing
Carey Lamprecht - violin, arranger, vocals
Jake Mann - arranger, bass (electric)
Henry Nagle - pedal steel, arranger, guitar (electric)
Emily Jane White - organ, guitar, percussion, piano, arranger, composer, vocals, producer



Emily Jane White – Victorian America (2009)

Emily Jane White – Victorian America (2009)

Emily Jane White – Victorian America (2009)