New Arrivals/Restock

Title: Golden Sings That Have Been Sung
Artist: Ryley Walker
Label: Dead Oceans
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 656605142111
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2016-08-19
Number of Discs: 1

The preceding years have been extraordinary for Ryley Walker. In March, his second album, Primrose Green, emerged to critical hosannas from the likes of NPR, Village Voice, Uncut, and Mojo - in the process, earning admiration of musicians who had chalked up no shortage of turntable miles in Walker's life. Robert Plant declared himself a fan - as did double-bass legend Danny Thompson, with whom Ryley would later embark on a British tour. A sprawling tour of the USA around Primrose Green presented a perfect chance to workshop ideas for what would eventually become his third studio album, Golden Sings That Have Been Sung. On the album, "The Roundabout" represents a symbolic return to Chicago, while other songs are directly wedded to Ryley's actual return there. Perhaps more than any other song on the record, the somnambulant sun-dappled intimacies of opening track "The Halfwit In Me" most audibly bear the imprint of Ryley's improvisational sessions with Wilco multi-instrumentalist, Chicagoan and producer Leroy Bach, while "Funny Thing She Said" is an unflinching study of separation set to a shimmeringly supple ensemble performance.

Tracks:
1.1 The Halfwit in Me
1.2 A Choir Apart
1.3 Funny Thing She Said
1.4 Sullen Mind
1.5 I Will Ask You Twice
1.6 The Roundabout
1.7 The Great and Undecided
1.8 Age Old Tale