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(2016) The Yearning - Evening Souvenirs
Review:
A recording project of British producer/songwriter Joe Moore, The Yearning released its debut LP in 2014. For those unfamiliar with prior EPs, Dreamboats & Lemonade introduced the outfit’s nostalgic chamber pop, written and recorded using the Beach Boys, Burt Bacharach, and especially ’60s girl groups as templates, and sung by — in tribute to the era — teenager Maddie Dobie.
Two years later, the follow-up, Evening Souvenirs, concentrates on the more melancholy shades of Bacharach. To set the stage, the album opens with a one-minute instrumental prelude that begins with a single repeated note on piano and develops into arpeggiated keys with strings. Soon, the record’s first words are: “Why do the raindrops keep on falling/Fall down my window like they do?/Why does the second hand keep moving on/If life ended here when I lost you?” The heartbreak swells with woodwinds, brass, and reinforcement from the Cotswold Voices choir, who return later on select tracks. Song titles like “When You Look at Her” and “Fools Fall in Love” correctly predict that the album continues in kind. The more seductive “Fall in Love with Me” is a bossa nova with guitar, rhythm section, flute, strings, and a husky saxophone solo. Also offering a slight change of pace, “Nightingale” is a duet with Moore and Dobie, and “Ava” is a short but sweet acoustic guitar solo by Mark Kiff, who plays throughout the album.
While Evening Souvenirs plays as a novelty due to its really spot-on retro arrangements, performances, and production, it should delight fans of Baroque pop, as well as those in the mood for dramatic, brokenhearted indie pop.
Tracklist:
01 - Evening Souvenirs (Instrumental).flac
02 - When I Lost You.flac
03 - Don't Know What I'm Doing.flac
04 - Fall in Love with Me.flac
05 - When You Look at Her.flac
06 - Nightingale.flac
07 - Ava (Instrumental).flac
08 - The Moment Your Heart Would Say Goodbye.flac
09 - You Stopped the World.flac
10 - Not That Type of Girl.flac
11 - Fools Fall in Love.flac
12 - Sometimes.flac
Summary:
Country: UK
Genre: chamber pop, indie-pop
Media Report:
Source : CD
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : ~ 594-935 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits |
