• logo

Sean Watkins - Blinders On (2006)

Sean Watkins - Blinders On (2006)

BAND/ARTIST: Sean Watkins

Tracklist

01. Summer's Coming
02. Starve Them To Death
03. I'm Sorry
04. Happy New Year
05. Hello...Goodbye
06. Run Away Girl
07. I Say Nothing
08. Coffee
09. The Sound Of My Crush
10. No Lighted Windows
11. Cammac
12. Roses Never Red
13. They Sail Away
14. Not That Bad/Blinders On
15. Whipping Boy

Nickel Creek guitarist/vocalist Sean Watkins put the Grande Ole Opry behind him with Blinders On, a 15-track foray into pop, rock, and the wonders of digital recording. From the opening Adrian Belew-esque guitar loop on "Summer's Coming" to the angsty, mandolin-led love song "Whipping Boy" -- the latter evolves into a full-on flat-picked guitar and cello jam about five minutes in -- it's clear that the shy, quiet Nickel Creek guitar player is coming out of his shell. Like fellow Creek members Chris Thile and sister Sara Watkins, Sean is a musical sponge filtering whatever genre he comes in contact with through his own unique brand of composition. Sparse and often dissonant band-aids ("Hello...Goodbye" and the Radiohead-tinged "Happy New Year") serve as bridges to full-on new acoustic confections like "Starve Them to Death," "No Lighted Windows," and the mournful "They Sail Away." Blinders On is pure California road pop, and while it occasionally veers into detached Pro Tools trickery, Watkins is an honest enough songwriter that his words peek through the sound waves like shark fins.

As a ISRA.CLOUD's PREMIUM member you will have the following benefits:
  • Unlimited high speed downloads
  • Download directly without waiting time
  • Unlimited parallel downloads
  • Support for download accelerators
  • No advertising
  • Resume broken downloads
  • User offline
  • whiskers
  •  wrote in 13:41
    • Like
    • 1
Many Thanks