Spectators, by Amelia Curran

Spectators

by Amelia Curran

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1.	Years 03:57	buy track
2.	What Will You Be Building 02:55	buy track
3.	The Modern Man 03:57	buy track
4.	Blackbird on Fire 02:46	buy track
5.	The Great Escape 03:33	buy track
6.	Strangers 03:29	buy track
7.	Soft Wooden Towers 03:46	buy track
8.	San Andreas Fault 03:04	buy track
9.	In A Town (200 Days) 04:05	buy track
10.	Face On The News 03:09	buy track

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From the fathoms, the dark solitary deeps, comes Amelia Curran’s Spectators, a new album set for release on October 2, 2012 on Six Shooter Records. A meditation on frailty, restlessness, time and its finitudes, Spectators is both storm and harbour.

The Juno winning artist has charted a course through longing and loss with lyrics that face life’s beauties and terrors with disconsolate urgency. With Spectators, Curran returns to the scene with ten tracks that yet raise the bar on her signature lyricism, but push beyond the folk boundaries that have defined her previous releases.

Produced by John Critchley, Spectators brings surprises, including brass, strings, piano, and rumbling percussion. “What Will You Be Building,” a downtrodden Dixieland dirge, distills existence into one essential question. “The Modern Man” is another standout track – Curran’s stark vision stands sharply against a dark, tense, shivering backdrop. Even, or perhaps especially, the love songs, cut through the bone. In particular, the earthquake heartache of “San Andreas Fault,” is as graceful as it is devastating.

The opening track, “Years,” strides forward with a dynamic deliberation undercut by repeated speculation about all the trouble’s worth. Ever cautious in her optimism, “Years” introduces the record’s measured truths in fine fashion.

Guest musicians and arrangers are a collection of Toronto and St. John’s notables, including The Once, Todor Kobakov, Bryden Baird, Selina Martin, Oh Susanna, and Martin Tielli.

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released October 3, 2012

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Amelia Curran St. John'S, Newfoundland and Labrador

Amelia Curran is a Juno-Award winning songwriter, activist and mental health advocate from St . John’s, Newfoundland.

Curran’s music is distinguished by her intricate and elliptical lyrics, geologic in their resilience and oceanic in their depths . ... more

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