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Michael Chapman: True North – "Truck Song" (2019, PoB-044)
Michael Chapman's "True North" (PoB-044) is out on Paradise of Bachelors Feb. 8, 2019.
Buy from label: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-044
Buy/stream elsewhere: http://lnk.to/PoB44
The masterful follow-up to his universally celebrated 2017 album 50, Michael Chapman’s True North finds the elder statesman of British songwriting and guitar plumbing an even deeper deep and honing an ever keener edge to his iconic writing. This authoritative set of predominantly new, and utterly devastating, songs hews to a more intimate sonic signature—more atmospheric, textural, and minimalist than 50, stately and melancholy in equal measure. Recorded in rural West Wales, True North unflinchingly surveys home and horizon, traveling from the Bahamas to Texas to the Leeds of Chapman’s childhood, haunted by the mirages of memory and intimations of mortality. Joining him on this introspective journey is a cast of old friends and new disciples: once again Steve Gunn produces and plays guitar, and fellow UK songwriting hero Bridget St John sings, collaborating with cellist Sarah Smout and legendary pedal steel player BJ Cole, who has accompanied everyone from John Cale to Scott Walker, Elton John to Terry Allen, Felt to Björk to Brian Eno.
Mesmeric. Even in the midst of the dark night of the soul he conjures up, Chapman remains defiant and unapologetic. –NPR Music
A rich, haunting, collection of forlorn love songs, apocalyptic picaresques, and bewitching instrumentals that marks the latest stage in a remarkable career renaissance … by the godfather of new cosmic Americana. – The Guardian
Beatific. Haunted by memories and auguries, and communicating something of their uncanny twilight power. – MOJO
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By The BachelorsMichael Chapman's "True North" (PoB-044) is out on Paradise of Bachelors Feb. 8, 2019.
Buy from label: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-044
Buy/stream elsewhere: http://lnk.to/PoB44
The masterful follow-up to his universally celebrated 2017 album 50, Michael Chapman’s True North finds the elder statesman of British songwriting and guitar plumbing an even deeper deep and honing an ever keener edge to his iconic writing. This authoritative set of predominantly new, and utterly devastating, songs hews to a more intimate sonic signature—more atmospheric, textural, and minimalist than 50, stately and melancholy in equal measure. Recorded in rural West Wales, True North unflinchingly surveys home and horizon, traveling from the Bahamas to Texas to the Leeds of Chapman’s childhood, haunted by the mirages of memory and intimations of mortality. Joining him on this introspective journey is a cast of old friends and new disciples: once again Steve Gunn produces and plays guitar, and fellow UK songwriting hero Bridget St John sings, collaborating with cellist Sarah Smout and legendary pedal steel player BJ Cole, who has accompanied everyone from John Cale to Scott Walker, Elton John to Terry Allen, Felt to Björk to Brian Eno.
Mesmeric. Even in the midst of the dark night of the soul he conjures up, Chapman remains defiant and unapologetic. –NPR Music
A rich, haunting, collection of forlorn love songs, apocalyptic picaresques, and bewitching instrumentals that marks the latest stage in a remarkable career renaissance … by the godfather of new cosmic Americana. – The Guardian
Beatific. Haunted by memories and auguries, and communicating something of their uncanny twilight power. – MOJO