Back To Nature
* Dawn McCarthy & Bonny Billy: Then The Letting Go (6.5 mb) | God Is Love (6.5 mb) | I Called You Back (7.5 mb) |
From Wai Notes : Sea Note : SN14
Long one of my favorite performers, Bonny Billy (aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Palace Brothers, Palace Music, etc…) has been taking an increasingly polished studio approach with his latest releases. And while the results have still been amazing, I’ve still longed for the stripped down efforts of his earlier albums. Luckily, I happened to go to the local record mart shortly after this limited edition release on Bonny Billy’s imprint, Sea Note, that completely satisfies my jones for old school Bonny Billy.
Released as a kind of companion album to his last release, The Letting Go, these are some “warts and all” demos of the songs that would later be fleshed out. While I made the mistake of saying earlier that The Letting Go benefited from the cleaner production (look here), I’m willing to admit that I was wrong. Weirdly enough, along with first name billing on this album, Dawn McCarthy’s beautiful vocals are, to great effect, featured much more prominently as well. These songs, in all of their stripped down glory, are absolutely amazing.
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