City Morning Song (Dig)

Sarah Shannon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 6, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Minty Fresh
• ASIN: B000M06K8E
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #217,730 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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For all its hearkening back to the sounds of classic pop records, Sarah Shannon's second solo album remains a wholly original affair. A lovely panoply of orchestral touches, particularly precocious strings ("Near and Far," "Postwar Hope") and muted trumpet ("On and On," "Salton Sea"), adorns these songs and helps distance Shannon from her continuing association as a (if not "the") former Velocity Girl. But for all the songs--"Along the Way," "On and On," and the title track--that suggest a breezy walk in the park, both lyrically and compositionally, even precious-sounding numbers like "Shiny Little Song" betray a seriously maturing songwriter whose poetics and craft have grown beyond anything suggested by her first, eponymous solo outing. The five-year interim has done wonders for Shannon's voice as well. Never before has it sounded so pure, without losing the distinctiveness that devoted VG fans have adored since 1993's jet-setting Copacetic. Credit budding producer extraordinaire Martin Feveyear for elevating much of this record from teasingly pleasant in theory to lushly realized in the event. Regardless, if City Morning Song is any indication, Shannon's potential for lasting pop relevance seems all but assured. --Jason Kirk

Product Description

Lead singer of 90s indie-rock darlings, Velocity Girl, releases her second solo album further marking her departure from the guitar driven noise pop of her former band. Although her new release provides love songs in spades reminiscent of Burt Bacharach and Carole King, Shannon doesn't shy away from exploring darker subject matter. Groovy laid back beats, warm piano, sweeping strings and stately horns give these songs a timeless classic pop feel with the central feature of Shannon's solo work, her voice, showing strong as ever.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sarah Shannon City Morning Song, May 11, 2007

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Martha Morris (Dickerson, Md USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: City Morning Song (Dig) (Audio CD)

SARAH SHANNON "City Morning Song"

The wonderful almost swing based-even--jazz-based bounce to this collection, is a perfect merge with Sarah's lilting, lively and lovely voice. She has designed the melodies and lyrics to embrace the great range and emotions of her singing: searching, hoping, finding-sometimes rejoicing and loving-but, some do darken "slow down...look around..." then brighten "universe found...along the way." She poetically touches the immense and complicated search of life-the joy and sadness. Her voice can be breathy and urgent, then almost classically soaring, always backed by this wonderful orchestration. The moving chorus: "On and on...On and on!" Well-that's life. What songs and rhythms! Right, the bounce! It makes us "Boomers" want to jitterbug!