Label Fantasy
Distributing label Concord Records (In the US), Universal Music Group
Release Date Jun 01, 2010
Myspace Artist Site
01. Mixtape
02. Engine To Turn
03. The Things That Everybody Does
04. Six More Days Of Rain
05. Feel Of The World
06. Never Talk About It
07. All The Reasons We Dont Have To Fight
08. Live Till You Die
09. Papercut
10. See You On The Moon
11. Dannys Song
12. After Today
Recording information: Avast Recording Company, Seattle, WA; Overdub Lane Studio, Durham, NC.
Photographer: Jason Frank Rothenberg.
Personnel: Tift Merritt (vocals, guitar, piano); Scott McCall, Greg Leisz (guitar); Eyvid Kang (violin, viola); Gretchen Yanover (cello); Hans Teuber (flute, clarinet, saxophone); Thomas Marriott (trumpet); Greg Readling (piano, Hammond b-3 organ); Zeke Hutchins (drums).
Audio Mixer: Tucker Martine.
Uncut (magazine) (p.95) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "She has a lovely, fragile voice. She writes tender, well-observed songs, sentimental without being cloying..."
Grammy-nominated alt-country/Americana songstress Tift Merritt returned to her Carolina roots this past year with her band and producer Tucker Martine (Decemberists, Laura Veirs), emerging with her fourth studio album See You On the Moon arriving June 1 via Fantasy. "I wanted to take everything to a place that was less labored, of more depth," she says. "Open space, real strength. There was a certain feeling of inevitability about it. Like I found these songs whole." Less thematic than her last studio effort, 2008's fine, autobiographical Another Country, Merritt's new project finds her forcefully pushing musical boundaries, trying a variety of new instruments and tone and ending up with a dozen songs for what she describes as "a really direct record."
Songs such as the dramatically swelling "Engine To Turn" and the magnificent centerpiece "Feel of the World" (featuring My Morning Jacket's Jim James) maintain what Newsweek has described as Merritt's "magical combination of cool reserve and effortless warmth". Creating simple folk melodies and fleshing them out with stripped and staggered rhythms, See You On the Moon is awash with ringing guitars, the occasional tender twang of a pedal steel and densely layered vocal harmonies. As with the alluring ballad "Things That Everybody Does", Merritt and Martine bring bold and bright brushstrokes to Moon's expansive musical canvas, lending the sessions a distinct and organic live feel. Ethereal impressionism is out, clear-eyed realism is in. Highly recommended. Merritt is previewing a new song from Moon on her website every week until the album's release.
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