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The Graceless Age

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The album was first released in Australia in September 2012. It is now also availbale in NZ, US and Europe.

John Murry began recording The Graceless Age (produced by Murry, Tim Mooney, and Kevin Cubbins) four years ago in San Francisco. From there, he brought the tapes to Memphis and back again, adding layers of sound as thick as, what? San Francisco fog? Mississippi mud? No. That’s fucking ridiculous. As John Murry says, “No matter how many fuzz pedals I use, no matter how many synths, they’re always going to say ‘Mississippi’ and ‘southern rock’”. Of course territory figures into the songs of The Graceless Age, but good luck pigeonholing.

It’s a big sound at times – backup singers, panoramic guitar noise, sweet piano melodies, an orchestra of strings, bells, horns… – but no matter how ethereal or expansive, at the heart of each song is something simple maybe written on an acoustic guitar or upright piano about loss and solitude and bad fucking-up, not always with a guilty conscience. Listen to “California” with its mechanical loops over a constant, hypnotic guitar line. It’s pretty. It’s also easy to imagine riding alone over the Bay Bridge from San Francisco to Oakland, generally disgusted with the scenery, as though it’s the scenery’s fault. Listen to “Little Colored Balloons” – sparse with piano, cello, mournful backup singing, and John Murry’s hoarse voice protesting too much. Drugs, bad choices, melody and countermelody.

John Murry knows what it sounds like to be Elvis, alone in Memphis, bloated with pills and mistakes, about to hit the floor. There’s a gospel choir and backwards guitar.

Track Listing:

Disc 1:
  1. The Ballad Of The Pajama Kid
  2. California
  3. Little Colored Balloons
  4. Penny Nails
  5. Photograph
  6. Things We Lost In The Fire
  7. No Te da Ganas de Reir, Sènor Malverde-
  8. Southern Sky
  9. If I'm to Blame
  10. Thorn Tree in the Garden
Release date NZ
June 7th, 2013
Manufacturer code:
URA405
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Brand
Album Length (Minutes)
52.11
Label
Evangeline
Number of Discs
1
Original Release Year
2013
Box Dimensions (mm)
142x125x10
UPC
00602537169276
Product ID
21449939

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