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BAND/ARTIST: Shiloh Hill
- Title: Wildflower
- Year Of Release: 2016
- Label: Shiloh Hill
- Genre: Folk Rock
- Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/96kHz FLAC
- Total Time: 47:27
- Total Size: 484; 848 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Trying to define the essence of an album is often unfair, never easy and is complicated by the fact that all experience the music differently. Some may strain to understand every lyric while others are comfortable floating on the tonal tides created when banjo meshes with trumpet, for example. So this review will attempt to express how “Wildflower” by Nick Wes and Shiloh Hill manages to deliver something for every listener.
The album kicks off with “The Artist,” a song setting a tone with an overall wall of warmth punctuated with pain. The fiddle rounds out a sound that stands out as clean, balanced and effortless. “That kind of power is never for good…” What power can be? Is life ever? Maybe love?
Once that question is left hanging out there, we are more fully introduced to the sound with “Better Fool.” The first chord passage immediately brings the Indigo Girls to mind but fortunately the trumpet and lyrics wash away the comparison 30 seconds in. The chords become second fiddle to the comfort of the music’s charm. The second twist of the chorus: large and full throated with the banjo along with drums and horn is able to somehow make a hopeless realization (“I don’t need you and you don’t want me”) seem happy. Our hero hangs on…
“Mama’s Boy” is really set off by the horn harmony and brought to mind John Mayer. Another shining example of the delicate phrasing where every note is delivered with the precision of a scalpel. “You’re wrong about me…” is the plea and the ghostly Mamie, like a welcomed apparition, brushes the dust off the antique furniture, adding a layer of additional muted, pale colors.
The signature song starts off the hero’s journey and “Wildflower” delivers the dual vocals to full impact on this piece. With this fourth song, the palate is completed and the banjo settles in with the horn like an old friend on a country porch. Striking out on their own at this point, Shiloh Hill enters the blinding sun with shades and shadows: a tip of the hat to Americana and the seasons to come.
And they come with a childish charm: the use of bells is particularly effective on “Seasons” as leaves, snow, rain and sun beckon a rise of hope. The mandolin, horns and bells all feel like a summer of love has been reborn. The song begs you to step out and take the risk because it’s worth it.
“Dust” leads us into “Box of Pine.” A darker turn for the album and for some reason Eric Clapton singing, “It’s getting dark, too dark to see” from “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” hovered in the back of my mind. Also this song, although nothing like it musically, reminded me of the lyrical intent of Neil Young’s “Tonight’s the Night period. Drugs are bad, MMMkay? And the piano transition reminded me of the melancholy “I can’t make you love me…” These aren’t bad things…they simply suggest the timeless nature of the topic and the composition. Again a full chorus of sadness and ghosts, along with the ethereal fiddle, adds to the overall haunting impact of the pieces. There is an excellent use of the change out of the dank dark hole, again offering the slimmest of rays of hope. But the reprise says, “no.” Accept what the banjo says…this is one last hoedown. Love is like a ghost…confirming its importance from a afe distance. The question is presented, “what do YOU wish for?”
“Stale” brings us again to the ghosts vs. banjo. The lyrics suggest that our hero is willing to suffer rather than compromise. It’s time to wake up. To accept it is ok to accept help. The stale cigarette offers the best analogy: it was a killer from the start, from the first taste. Yet it was snuffed out and relit time and time again to extend the pain as much as possible. There are 20 in a pack…
“6 months” reminds us that some souls don’t come back. Some stories don’t conclude cheerily and it is best to let that perfect night go. Just ask the banjo and the fiddle: they know.
“Riverstone” kind of starts to clear the clouds up, returning the friendly bells and hearkening back the seasons we explored earlier. Our hero is deciding to go it alone…lonely but ok in that space. Until…
“Oh my Love, My Sweet” closes this chapter on hope and utilizes the best combined vocals of the bunch. It’s a mystery for sure and yes, as old as time. Maybe the angels have been hovering all along and are guiding and directing to the final resting place. Seeing them and accepting a partner on the journey is a huge step.
All in all this album sets tones, tells stories and at time reminds us that while we are born to leave our mothers and fathers, we are also guided by angels to find the partner that can roll through life with until the moment that box of pine is prepared. ~Louis Panzer
Tracklist:
1.01 - Shiloh Hill - The Artist (3:32)
1.02 - Shiloh Hill - Better Fool (4:25)
1.03 - Shiloh Hill - Mama's Boy (4:29)
1.04 - Shiloh Hill - Wildflower (3:51)
1.05 - Shiloh Hill - Seasons (3:37)
1.06 - Shiloh Hill - Dust (4:41)
1.07 - Shiloh Hill - Box of Pine (3:56)
1.08 - Shiloh Hill - Stale (5:03)
1.09 - Shiloh Hill - Six Months (4:54)
1.10 - Shiloh Hill - Riverstone (5:11)
1.11 - Shiloh Hill - Oh My Love, Oh My Sweet (3:47)
The album kicks off with “The Artist,” a song setting a tone with an overall wall of warmth punctuated with pain. The fiddle rounds out a sound that stands out as clean, balanced and effortless. “That kind of power is never for good…” What power can be? Is life ever? Maybe love?
Once that question is left hanging out there, we are more fully introduced to the sound with “Better Fool.” The first chord passage immediately brings the Indigo Girls to mind but fortunately the trumpet and lyrics wash away the comparison 30 seconds in. The chords become second fiddle to the comfort of the music’s charm. The second twist of the chorus: large and full throated with the banjo along with drums and horn is able to somehow make a hopeless realization (“I don’t need you and you don’t want me”) seem happy. Our hero hangs on…
“Mama’s Boy” is really set off by the horn harmony and brought to mind John Mayer. Another shining example of the delicate phrasing where every note is delivered with the precision of a scalpel. “You’re wrong about me…” is the plea and the ghostly Mamie, like a welcomed apparition, brushes the dust off the antique furniture, adding a layer of additional muted, pale colors.
The signature song starts off the hero’s journey and “Wildflower” delivers the dual vocals to full impact on this piece. With this fourth song, the palate is completed and the banjo settles in with the horn like an old friend on a country porch. Striking out on their own at this point, Shiloh Hill enters the blinding sun with shades and shadows: a tip of the hat to Americana and the seasons to come.
And they come with a childish charm: the use of bells is particularly effective on “Seasons” as leaves, snow, rain and sun beckon a rise of hope. The mandolin, horns and bells all feel like a summer of love has been reborn. The song begs you to step out and take the risk because it’s worth it.
“Dust” leads us into “Box of Pine.” A darker turn for the album and for some reason Eric Clapton singing, “It’s getting dark, too dark to see” from “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” hovered in the back of my mind. Also this song, although nothing like it musically, reminded me of the lyrical intent of Neil Young’s “Tonight’s the Night period. Drugs are bad, MMMkay? And the piano transition reminded me of the melancholy “I can’t make you love me…” These aren’t bad things…they simply suggest the timeless nature of the topic and the composition. Again a full chorus of sadness and ghosts, along with the ethereal fiddle, adds to the overall haunting impact of the pieces. There is an excellent use of the change out of the dank dark hole, again offering the slimmest of rays of hope. But the reprise says, “no.” Accept what the banjo says…this is one last hoedown. Love is like a ghost…confirming its importance from a afe distance. The question is presented, “what do YOU wish for?”
“Stale” brings us again to the ghosts vs. banjo. The lyrics suggest that our hero is willing to suffer rather than compromise. It’s time to wake up. To accept it is ok to accept help. The stale cigarette offers the best analogy: it was a killer from the start, from the first taste. Yet it was snuffed out and relit time and time again to extend the pain as much as possible. There are 20 in a pack…
“6 months” reminds us that some souls don’t come back. Some stories don’t conclude cheerily and it is best to let that perfect night go. Just ask the banjo and the fiddle: they know.
“Riverstone” kind of starts to clear the clouds up, returning the friendly bells and hearkening back the seasons we explored earlier. Our hero is deciding to go it alone…lonely but ok in that space. Until…
“Oh my Love, My Sweet” closes this chapter on hope and utilizes the best combined vocals of the bunch. It’s a mystery for sure and yes, as old as time. Maybe the angels have been hovering all along and are guiding and directing to the final resting place. Seeing them and accepting a partner on the journey is a huge step.
All in all this album sets tones, tells stories and at time reminds us that while we are born to leave our mothers and fathers, we are also guided by angels to find the partner that can roll through life with until the moment that box of pine is prepared. ~Louis Panzer
Tracklist:
1.01 - Shiloh Hill - The Artist (3:32)
1.02 - Shiloh Hill - Better Fool (4:25)
1.03 - Shiloh Hill - Mama's Boy (4:29)
1.04 - Shiloh Hill - Wildflower (3:51)
1.05 - Shiloh Hill - Seasons (3:37)
1.06 - Shiloh Hill - Dust (4:41)
1.07 - Shiloh Hill - Box of Pine (3:56)
1.08 - Shiloh Hill - Stale (5:03)
1.09 - Shiloh Hill - Six Months (4:54)
1.10 - Shiloh Hill - Riverstone (5:11)
1.11 - Shiloh Hill - Oh My Love, Oh My Sweet (3:47)
Year 2016 | Folk | Electronic | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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