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- Date Released: August 17, 2009
- Genre: Country/Folk
- Style: Alt-Country
- Label: Matador
The indie-folk trio beefs up their sound
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We Say...
Singer Peter Quirk's wounded, nasal whine characterized the Cave Singers' meditative debut, Invitation Songs. He came off like Gordon Gano on tension-filled tracks like "New Monuments" and Dan Stuart of Green on Red in the spare beauty "Cold Eye." On Welcome Joy, the Seattle indie-folk trio has beefed up its sound, adding electric guitars and crafting, on the whole, more accessible songs. Quirk trades his high-lonesome moan for a lower, Ryan Adams growl in the country-rock of "Leap," although the band's haunting drone is still present (most notably on the haunting "Shrine"). There's more going on in this mix: a marshal beat and breezy harmonies fuel "Leap," thumping bass and distorted guitars power "At the Cut," and a rolling, car-engine rumble drives "I Don't Mind." Welcome Joy seems to be a document of a road trip. "Listen to the radio as we drive on," Quirk sings in opener "Summer Light," and then later references beach houses, long nights, wide days and birds that "answer to the sky." If the Cave Singers invited us into their rich, brooding musical world on Invitation Songs, they're taking us on a journey with Welcome Joy. Who knows where we'll end up?
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| 01. |  |
Summer Light |
4:07 |
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| 02. | |
Leap |
3:50 |
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| 03. | |
At The Cut |
3:02 |
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| 04. | |
Shrine |
4:40 |
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| 05. | |
Hen Of The Woods |
3:29 |
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| 06. | |
Beach House |
3:43 |
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| 07. | |
VV |
2:57 |
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| 08. | |
I Don’t Mind |
3:45 |
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| 09. | |
Townships |
3:09 |
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| 10. | |
Bramble |
2:55 |
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10 Total Tracks, 35:37 Total Length
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