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AMANDA SHIRES – ” Harmless “

Posted: August 26, 2017 in MUSIC
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If you haven’t listened to Amanda Shires My Piece Of Land in a while, it’s worth a revisit. “Shires traces the heart’s nearly imperceptible shifts,“Harmless” is particularly devastating in its self-revelation, a chance encounter in a bar that questions her emotional infidelity. “Everything’s a sign if you want it to be,” she sings with a nervous trill over trembling tremolo guitar. “And you want it to be.”

Joshua Britt and Nelson Hubbard from Neighborhood’s take “Harmless” out of the bar and out to Loch Ness, so a dive tryst turns into an unexpected love story with a lake monster in a beautifully animated video.

“We actually built parts of each scene and composited many different types of things together,” Britt  says “We made about ten different aluminum foil versions of the monster to cover all the angles and perspectives — lots of compositing, hand-made together with computer-made and putting everything into motion. We wanted to get the water right so sometimes it is paper, some of it is slow motion video we shot during a full moon or rain, lots of it is stuff we shot underwater. It’s just a giant mix… anything we loved we put in. “My Piece Of Land” is out now.

AMANDA SHIRES – ” My Piece Of Land “

Posted: December 2, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Amanda Shires: <i>My Piece of Land</i> Review

Amanda Shires – My Pieces Of Land CD/LP+MP3 (BMG Rights Management)
My Piece Of Land is Amanda’s third record and follows up 2013′s Down Fell The Doves and was primarily written while pregnant with her and husband Jason Isbell’s first child. “Shires is a virtuoso, and anyone who’s seen her front her own band or play in Isbell’s knows she can cultivate musical drama.

One of Amanda Shires’ best assets as a songwriter is the vivid way she has with off-kilter imagery. It’s a lure into her songs that has worked to excellent effect on “When You Need a Train It Never Comes,” from her 2010 album Carrying Lightning, or “Bulletproof” on the 2013 follow-up, Down Fell the Doves.

A few tracks on My Piece Of Land (which was produced by Dave Cobb, who loves nuance and rocking out in equal measure) build to big climaxes: ‘My Love – The Storm’ is the classic Garth Brooks-style stomper its title implies, while ‘You Are My Home’ builds to a grand finale that recalls the mid-1970s sound of Warren Zevon. ” Many of these tunes contain an undercurrent of disquiet, though it’s never less than artfully expressed. Her unease is especially conspicuous on “Slippin,” as she imagines a lover out on the town giving in to temptations that spell their end: “Tonight could be the night you go slippin’ away,” she sings, her voice subdued over a mix of acoustic guitars. There’s a subtler regret on opener “The Way It Dimmed,” a lean country number with jaunty electric guitar licks snaking around her vocals as she uses the past-tense to describe passion she (or her narrator) wants and can’t help but pull away from. A road trip goes wrong on the cinematic “Pale Fire,” which features a beautifully mournful fiddle line after the refrain (and harmony vocals from Jason Isbell, Shires’ husband, who also plays guitar on the album); and she blurs boundaries on the spare “Harmless”—“It might have been cheating/ Where exactly is the line?” she murmurs—just to see how far she can go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88a5PcZuEk4

Amanda Shires can command a spotlight. But My Piece Of Land really shines in subtle gradations, in the natural environment where the voice warbles and catches, and the mind adjusts, opens up and leans toward love.”