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(2017) Shenandoah Davis - Souvenirs [FLAC,Tracks]
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Review: Most love songs are about one of two stages in the life of a relationship: the beginning or the end. Either you’re meeting someone’s eyes across a crowded dance floor, or you’re watching them pack their stuff into cardboard boxes before closing your apartment door behind them. On the surface, Souvenirs, the third album by Seattle-based singer-songwriter , is all about breakups — certainly, the love affairs chronicled on these 10 chamber pop songs are behind her. But Souvenirs doesn’t dwell on the bitterness, remorse, or even sadness conveyed by the typical breakup album. Instead, it focuses on the moments in relationships that are often overshadowed by the more dramatic episodes — the daily minutiae, the memories that fall between the cracks until they are retrieved, years later, like coins between the cushions of a beat-up couch. Davis seeks to serve those memories justice, and demonstrate that even when everything goes wrong, there can still be beauty that may alleviate the heartache, if only for the duration of a song.
Beyond its emotional dexterity, the sound of Souvenirs is astoundingly well-rounded, as Davis’ wise-beyond-her-years lyrics mesh seamlessly with lush orchestral instrumentation and a strikingly high-pitched, classically-trained voice that lies somewhere between Joanna Newsom, Joni Mitchell, and some shivering lovelorn aria (Davis graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a degree in operatic performance). From the opening windswept strings of “The Wings,” Davis imprints every note of Souvenirs with a sense of deep purpose.
Her lyrics evoke detailed tableaus, stories within stories, and when she sings lines like “Sleep under the piano in your grandfather’s house/On the braided rug and lay his best suit out,” you can almost feel the carpet scratch against your cheek. Despite the violins, violas, oboes, horns, pianos, and multitudes of other instruments on these tracks, they don’t come off as heavy-handed, or trying to fill the songs with false importance. In their grandiose narrative songwriting, these could be songs by Petula Clark, or Ronnie Spector, or Françoise Hardy, and their pitch-perfect nod to the symphonic pop artists of the mid-20th century adds yet another meaty dimension to the album.
But the moments of romantic introspection end up taking center stage. On the highlight “East-Facing Window,” Davis visits a lover in New York City, unsure of how the trip will end or where she stands in the relationship. “Let’s hang up our artwork/In a borrowed apartment,” she suggests, “I mean all our friends have done it/And it’s not like they’re geniuses or anything.” Meanwhile, the person across from her has a simple question: “What did you come here for?” “East-Facing Window” begins with a simple arpeggiated piano melody, but as the song continues and Davis becomes more and more wrapped up in doubt and confusion, the music becomes stormier, the piano becoming faster and faster as violins whirl around. It’s a great example of how Davis can take one day out of her life and create a sonic narrative that transports you to its exact place and time.
There are other magical moments on Souvenirs: the piano ballad “Gold Coast,” which evokes the simple melodies and self-deprecating humor of Randy Newman; “Orbit,” which begins like a 1960s girl group waltz; and the lead single “Supernatural Powers,” which is perhaps the only song on Souvenirs that depicts the explosive passion of the beginning of a relationship. Each song on the album features some kind of window into Davis’ past, and each lyrical flourish, or well-placed baroque instrument, is a key to that remembrance. The record’s title serves it well: If life amounts to a collection of memories, the majority sitting idle on a shelf in our minds, Davis’ talent is in taking hers down, dusting them off, and presenting them to us as universal experiences. She learns from them, and so can we.
Tracklist: 01 - The Wings.flac
02 - Supernatural Powers.flac
03 - Seventeen.flac
04 - Gold Coast.flac
05 - Orbit.flac
06 - East-Facing Window.flac
07 - Tilden.flac
08 - Curtain Call.flac
09 - A Ride That Never Came.flac
10 - The Future.flac
Summary: Country: USA
Genre: chamber pop, indie-pop
Media Report: Source : CD
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : ~702-972 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
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