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(2015) Sugarplum Fairies - Sunday, Suddenly
Review:
The folk noir on Sugarplum Fairies’ new album Sunday Suddenly comes with one foot in a European sidewalk café and the other boot on a dusty road in the vast American West. In either locale, Vienna-born, L.A.-based singer-songwriter Silvia Ryder sounds appropriately brooding; espresso in hand, journal at her side, she could be gazing at anonymous passers-by on a Parisian sidewalk nor a cactus-dotted horizon, either one.
Sunday Suddenly is the seventh Sugarplum Fairies full-length, and the second since Ryder and collaborator Ben Bohm split in 2013. Produced by Marlon Rabenreither of Gold Star/the Sister Ruby Band (he produced Lael Neale’s “I’ll Be Your Man”), the album features guest turns from L.A.-based Scotsman Charlie Clark (gently in the background on “Blues Run the Game”), RT Valine of RT N’ the 44s (dueting with True Grit on “Dream Number Three”) and Taylor Borsuk of Skin & Bones (joining in evocatively on the last call-worthy “Blue”). The album’s Fellini-gone-West moment comes on the gauzy “Pale Vellum Dreams,” which recalls Kendra Smith meets the Dandy Warhols.
Rating 9/10
Tracklist:
01. Blues Run the Game (feat. Charlie Clark).flac
02. American Troubadour.flac
03. Pale Vellum Dreams.flac
04. 1996.flac
05. When the Devil's Loose.flac
06. Dead Body.flac
07. Dream Number Three (feat. Rt Valine).flac
08. Levittown.flac
09. Blue (feat. Taylor Borsuk).flac
10. Bonnie Brae.flac
11. Devil's Bones.flac
12. Sunday, Suddenly.flac
Summary:
Country: USA
Genre: Indie-Folk
Media Report:
Source : CD
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : ~688-909 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
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