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Lanterns On The Lake - Gracious Tide, Take Me Home (2011)
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Artist: Lanterns On The Lake Title Of Album: Gracious Tide, Take Me Home Year Of Release: 19 Sep 2011 Label: Co-operative Music Genre: Indie, Folk, Pop Quality: Mp3 Bitrate: 320 kbps Total Time: 63:21 Min Total Size: 152 Mb Tracklist: CD1: 01.Lungs Quicken 02.If I've Been Unkind 03.Keep On Trying 04.Ships In The Rain 05.A Kingdom 06.The Places We Call Home 07.Blanket Of Leaves 08.Tricks 09.You're Almost There 10.I Love You, Sleepyhead 11.Not Going Back To The Harbour CD2: 12.The Watch House And The Daughter 13.Father's Song 14.Not Going Back To The Harbour (High Tide Version) 15.Ships In The Rain (Dustin O'halloran Remix) Hoping
to restore some cultural pride to Newcastle following the rather
unflattering portrayal of their hometown on MTV reality show Geordie
Shore, "folktronica” sextet Lanterns on the Lake couldn’t be further
removed from the loud perma-tanned wannabes who have given the city a
rather derisory name. Subtlety may be an alien concept to their
fame-hungry neighbors, but the collective’s debut album, Gracious Tide,
Take Me Home, positively revels in it, as Hazel Wilde‘s gorgeously
hushed vocals whisper an array of slow-burning melodies on 11
atmospheric tracks spaciously filled with gentle acoustics, softly
brushed percussion, and soothing ambient electronica. Indeed, you could
hear a pin drop on the sparse 73-second closer, "Not Going Back to the
Harbour,” the echo-laden Americana of "You’re Almost There,” and the
mournful sea shanty "Ships in the Rain,” a heartbreaking lament to a
local fisherman who went missing at sea, all of which bear the hallmarks
of the album’s isolated Northumberland recording surroundings. But
guitarist Paul Gregory’s ethereal production ensures that the nocturnal
vibes never become snooze-inducing. Opener "Lungs Quicken” starts out as
a trippy fusion of shimmering guitars, gentle piano hooks, and twitchy
percussion before bursting into life with a stunning Sigur Rós-esque
cinematic chamber pop finale, a trick that is also repeated on the
sparse minimal folk of "I Love You, Sleepyhead;” there are echoes of the
enchanting late-’80s jangly indie pop of the Sundays on the mournful
Celtic-tinged "If I’ve Been Unkind” (featuring a rare lead vocal from
guitarist Adam Sykes) and the haunting strings and looped claustrophobic
beats of "Keep on Trying;” while "Tricks” combines twinkling
glockenspiels, pounding organ chords, and alt-country violins with a
hypnotic tribal beat. A misguided re-recording of "A Kingdom” (one of
three reworkings of tracks taken from previously released EPs), which
turns the fragile shoegazing ballad into a rather frenetic slice of
nu-folk, suggests the bandmembers were wise to avoid any more excursions
into uptempo territory. But luckily, the majority of Gracious Tide,
Take Me Home plays to the band’s beautifully swooning strengths, and in
doing so, produces one of the most majestic debuts from a British act
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