Counting Crows - 2014 - Somewhere Under Wonderland (Deluxe Edition) [EAC FLAC]
Artist: Counting Crows
Title: Somewhere Under Wonderland (Deluxe Edition)
Format: CD, Album, Deluxe Edition
Producer: Brian Deck
Country: Europe
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Recorded: December 2013 and February 2014 at Fantasy Recording Studios in Berkeley
Label: Capitol Records
Catalog: 0602537919635
Barcode: 6 02537 91963 5
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, Roots Rock, Folk Rock
Duration: 49:09
Art: Front
Counting Crows:
Wikipedia:
Counting Crows is an American rock band from Berkeley, California, formed in 1991. The band consists of Adam Duritz (lead vocals, piano), David Bryson (guitar), Charlie Gillingham (keyboards, piano, accordion), Dan Vickrey (lead guitar), David Immerglück (guitar, pedal steel, mandolin, bass guitar), Jim Bogios (drums, percussion) and Millard Powers (bass guitar, piano, guitar).
Counting Crows gained popularity following the release of its debut album, August and Everything After (1993), which featured the hit single "Mr. Jones". They have sold more than 20 million albums worldwide and received a 2004 Academy Award nomination for their song "Accidentally in Love", which was included in the film Shrek 2.
The band's influences include Van Morrison, R.E.M., Bob Dylan, and The Band.
Somewhere Under Wonderland:
Wikipedia:
Somewhere Under Wonderland is the seventh studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released on September 2, 2014 in the United States through Capitol Records, and on September 15, 2014 in the UK, through Virgin EMI. It is available on CD, vinyl and as a digital download. The album is the band's first album of original material in six years since 2008's Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings.
The album marks the band's first release on Capitol Records. After parting with original label Geffen Records of 18 years in 2009, the band released two live albums and a studio album of cover songs independently. While touring in the "Outlaw Roadshow," a traveling festival show sponsored by the band in part with the music blog Ryan's Smashing Life, the band began to write new material. After recording independently, they shopped the album around to eight or nine labels and finally signed with Capitol.
AllMusic Review by Fred Thomas:
By the time of Somewhere Under Wonderland, it had been a long, rocky road between albums for alternative folk-rock superstars Counting Crows. Plenty of music had come and gone since 2008’s emotionally divided concept album Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings -- a few live albums, a record of covers, and countless shows on multiple tours. These recordings all fell short of presenting that much in the way of new original music from the band, possibly due in part to the turbulent years that followed Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, an album that would be their last for long-time label Geffen and immediately precede a stretch of personal loss and struggle for Crows singer/songwriter Adam Duritz. Despite a long period of upheaval and heavy changes, the nine songs that make up Somewhere Under Wonderland find the band sounding relaxed, optimistic, and even somewhat giddy at times. The record eases into being with the eight-minute long first single “Palisades Park,” a suite that glides through different atmospheres, lingering with the same dreamlike fluidity and colorful observational storytelling that Joni Mitchell displayed on The Hissing of Summer Lawns. The lengthy tune breezes by, shifting through Beatles-esqe organ tones, tempo changes, and Duritz’s signature characters and poetic scenes. The largely acoustic “Earthquake Driver” sounds stuck somewhere between Thin Lizzy's energetic juvenilia and Paul Simon's soul-searching wordplay circa Graceland. The band doesn’t stick with one mood for too long over the course of the album, offering Neil Young-inspired guitar rootsiness on standout track “Scarecrow,” gentle acoustic meandering and folksy vocal harmonies on “God of Ocean Tides,” and an upbeat country-rock ramble on “Cover Up the Sun.” All these stylistic detours fall under a very wide umbrella that makes Somewhere Under Wonderland distinctively Counting Crows. Duritz's raspy voice and lucid, lyrical stories always hold just a hint of desperation, and even decades into a staggered career, these new tunes can’t help but feel like part of a larger narrative that began during the band’s '90s glory days but finds further, greater refinement here.
Tracklist:
01. Palisades Park - 8:18
02. Earthquake Driver - 3:28
03. Dislocation - 4:55
04. God Of Ocean Tides - 3:08
05. Scarecrow - 4:46
06. Elvis Went To Hollywood - 3:55
07. Cover Up The Sun - 3:45
08. John Appleseed's Lament - 4:39
09. Possibility Days - 3:57
Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks:
10. Earthquake Driver (Demo) - 3:30
11. Scarecrow (Demo) - 4:10
Personnel:
Counting Crows:
Jim Bogios – drums, percussion, harmony vocals, hand claps on "Earthquake Driver"
David Bryson – guitar, acoustic guitar, harmony vocals
Adam Duritz – lead vocals, piano, harmony vocals
Charlie Gillingham – keyboards, piano, Hammond B3 organ, Mellotron, harmony vocals
David Immerglück – guitar, pedal steel guitar, mandolin, vocals, harmony vocals
Millard Powers – bass guitar, harmony vocals
Dan Vickrey – guitar, 12-string guitar, harmony vocals
Additional Musicians:
Brian Deck – glockenspiel on "Palisades Park" and "God of Ocean Tides", hand claps on "Earthquake Driver", production, mixing at The Magic Shop in New York City in April 2014
Eric Hillman – Backing vocals on "Cover Up the Sun"
Brian Holl – backing vocals on "Cover Up the Sun"
John Paul Roney – backing vocals
Chris Watson – trumpet on "Palisades Park"
Technical Personnel:
Shawn Dealey – engineering
Jason Butler – assistant engineering
Greg Calbi – mastering at Sterling Sound in New York City
Kabir Hermon – assistant engineering, engineering
Albert Hernandez – assistant engineering
Eric Hillman – vocal engineering
Felipe Molina – art conception, paintings
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