Mandolin Orange - Haste Make | Hard Hearted Stranger (2011)
BAND/ARTIST: Mandolin Orange
- Title: Haste Make | Hard Hearted Stranger
- Year Of Release: 2011
- Label: Mandolin Orange LLC
- Genre: Folk, Americana, Alt-Country
- Quality: mp3 320 kbps / flac lossless
- Total Time: 01:08:20
- Total Size: 164 / 342 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
CD1
01. Haste Make
02. No Weight
03. Lines on the Floor
04. Wake Me
05. Runnin' Red
06. Not a Word
07. Slither
08. Ships Sail Away
09. Angel
CD2
01. Big Men in the Sky
02. Never Die
03. Clover Tune
04. Killer
05. Hard Hearted Stranger
06. Next to Nothing
07. Train Song
08. Darling Girl
09. Birds of a Feather
The music critic cliché about double albums is that they'd often be better if they were boiled down to single album size, but that's not the case with the second release from North Carolina duo Mandolin Orange. Besides the consistent quality of the material, the thing that keeps this two-CD set from falling into the aforementioned category is the fact that it's really two separate albums packaged together, rather than one double-length slab of songs. Haste Make and Hard Hearted Stranger were each recorded at different studios during different periods of time; each has different guest players and its own distinct sonic identity. Naturally, both discs find singers/multi-instrumentalists Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz delivering graceful, organic-sounding vocal harmonies and supporting their songs with deft acoustic instrumentation, including guitars, mandolin (of course), fiddle, and viola, all employed in a low-key folk setting. But Haste Make is a rather more full-bodied set, achieving a bit of a folk-rock sound, while Hard Hearted Stranger is a much more sparsely arranged, fragile-sounding collection of tunes. Still, it's not as though the first disc gets into gritty, Crazy Horse-style territory or anything - it's still a relatively laid-back affair, but the minimalist settings of Hard Hearted Stranger are such that even the subtlest of musical additions seems striking in contrast. In the end, though, the true measure of this outing's success is the fact that each disc works equally well on its own terms.
CD1
01. Haste Make
02. No Weight
03. Lines on the Floor
04. Wake Me
05. Runnin' Red
06. Not a Word
07. Slither
08. Ships Sail Away
09. Angel
CD2
01. Big Men in the Sky
02. Never Die
03. Clover Tune
04. Killer
05. Hard Hearted Stranger
06. Next to Nothing
07. Train Song
08. Darling Girl
09. Birds of a Feather
The music critic cliché about double albums is that they'd often be better if they were boiled down to single album size, but that's not the case with the second release from North Carolina duo Mandolin Orange. Besides the consistent quality of the material, the thing that keeps this two-CD set from falling into the aforementioned category is the fact that it's really two separate albums packaged together, rather than one double-length slab of songs. Haste Make and Hard Hearted Stranger were each recorded at different studios during different periods of time; each has different guest players and its own distinct sonic identity. Naturally, both discs find singers/multi-instrumentalists Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz delivering graceful, organic-sounding vocal harmonies and supporting their songs with deft acoustic instrumentation, including guitars, mandolin (of course), fiddle, and viola, all employed in a low-key folk setting. But Haste Make is a rather more full-bodied set, achieving a bit of a folk-rock sound, while Hard Hearted Stranger is a much more sparsely arranged, fragile-sounding collection of tunes. Still, it's not as though the first disc gets into gritty, Crazy Horse-style territory or anything - it's still a relatively laid-back affair, but the minimalist settings of Hard Hearted Stranger are such that even the subtlest of musical additions seems striking in contrast. In the end, though, the true measure of this outing's success is the fact that each disc works equally well on its own terms.
Country | Folk | FLAC / APE | Mp3
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