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Shawn Mullins - Light You Up [New Vinyl LP]
Виконавець: Шон Маллінз
Назва: Light You Up
Формат: Вініл
Жанр: Alt-Country & Americana
СКП: 015707811217
стан: Нові
Дата виходу: 2010
Лейбл: Vanguard Records
Доріжки альбомів
ДИСК 1:
1. Каліфорнія
2. Light You Up
3. Murphy's Song
4. No Blue Sky
5. The Ghost of Johnny Cash
ДИСК 2:
1. Мішурне місто
2. I Knew a Girl
3. Катушський повіт
4. You Make It Better
5. Can not Remember Summer
6. Любов знайде шлях
The album opens with the devastating one-two punch of the cinematic California "-which instantly takes it's place alongside such latter-day Cali classics as Tom Petty's" Free Fallin ', "David & David's" Welcome to the Boomtown, "Beck's" Earthquake Weather "and Mullins 'own chart-topper" Lullaby "-and the smoldering, zeitgeist-capturing title track. In terms of their dramatic payloads, these two songs are of a piece, delving into the tattered yet resilient heart of the American Dream. The California setting, to which Mullins returns on "Tinseltown," functions as a microcosm of our collective journey from wide-eyed innocence through bitter experience to the possibility of personal and collective renewal. The thematic thread runs seamlessly into "Light You Up," with it's unsettling spoken verses- "Everybody wants the real deal / Everybody wants to cop a good feel / Everybody wants more money / Everybody wants a taste of your honey" -and intense choruses , as scorching as the San Fernando Valley in August, as Mullins reaches upward to break into his thrilling falsetto: "I just want to light you up / Light you up like a fire / I just want to turn you on / Turn you on and take you higher. " Here, as elsewhere, a deeper perspective is embedded in the song's bridge, as Mullins sings, "Yeah this old world can bring you down / Turn your smile into a frown / Break your heart and make you sad / Drive you stark raving mad. " Finally, the narrative drops away as the band launches into a surging extended rave-up, further deepening the song's emotional resonance.
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