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Track Listings
| 1. Sweet Light |
| 2. I Can feel |
| 3. Paradise |
| 4. Digging a Hole |
| 5. Palm Tree |
| 6. Boo Hoo |
| 7. Birds in My Garden |
| 8. Roses in Winter |
| 9. Left All Alone |
| 10. Trouble |
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is my review number two of The Chapin Sisters' second album, and oddly enough it's for an album titled "Two."
I gushed about their debut release (reviewed here on Amazon), and in the last two years I've seen their inventive videos and live performances on YouTube and online streamings in concert, so it's important to understand they are not fooling when it comes to their talent - they can sing and on this album they prove it.
With the "taking a break for my new baby" departure earlier in 2010 of the third founding member, Jessica Craven, the Sisters are now a duet & sister act - two to the power of two. This album has also taken a kind of 180 degree turnaround from their initial more playful pessimistic tones which was evident in some of their early music, which also proves to me that they can mature as artists. Granted, there are still glimpses of their quirky and dark humor injected in with their lush tones, but it's worth it when you find it and are somehow in on the subtle joke.
10 songs move over less than an hour, so you'd better sit down somewhere, because once you start this album up to listen, you won't want to get up:
1. Sweet Light - The harmonies, the quiet guitars, and their songwriting once again take you in to shower you with their stories, and the opening track is no exception. Their lyrics are earthy here, and they miss you, and they want you to know that their memories of you are part of the sun, and the trees, and the wind. It's fantastic that they can paint a picture with words so well.
2. I Can Feel - She's in love with her lover, or at least the love she's feeling is coming from storm clouds, and in the rain, and the coming night, and it's all around her. And there's no reciprocation, which makes it sad and she's trying to get you to see how she's feeling...
3. Paradise - Just a song about how she's feeling, and you're part of the equation, but are you also the solution?
4. Digging a Hole - I was exposed to this song first, as it was a YouTube release. It is a haunting, hypnotic, wonderfully crafted song, and the music video is a partner in its crime. It has shades of The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy Foe The Devil," as the song swirls and dances around you like a lick of fire, bringing you closer to Abigail and Lily's laments.
5. Palm Tree - the most polished song on the album, and the most radio-friendly. It's like a ballad, a slow dancing song, written in an even slower country style, and it's as if the 70's were back for a minute, with longing for love hanging, oddly, like leaves from the old palm tree.
6. Boo Hoo - She doesn't want to let you back in, but she loves you, and even the weather tells her it's right to love you for some reason. This has a slow Doors vibe to it, and makes it even more wonderful in that the song is a bit sad but positive, in a Carly Simon "Jesse" kind of way.
7. Birds in my Garden - One of the darkest feeling songs here, it's actually a leftover song from their first album, but was set aside. It now jumps out of the speakers and grabs you in the way their first album did for me. Their harmonies are wrapped tightly around the music (is that a melodica or harmonium and flute I hear?) and lifts you away from the dark situation it presents to you. It's haunting, but definitely keep looking back.
8. Roses in Winter - This left me feeling relaxed yet horrible, and I mean this in the best way possible. This song has the power to make me not want to fight her when she says in her (once again) hypnotic and earthy lyrics:
"Take it easy, baby... take it easy, baby
Take it easy, take it easy... cause all I wanted was
Roses in the winter..."
It's one of the best songs on the album.
9. Left All Alone - This is song is what makes the Chapin Sisters sound so unique - it's peppy and almost upbeat, but the lyrics, about being abandoned and left thinking about what might have been, bring the song right back down to earth, the way only these girls can sing it.
10. Trouble - this song is the most "folksy" as it has the essentials for a folk song - a banjo keeping time, wonderful harmony (once again), and they painted a final picture of a lazy barefoot walk in the summer rain as their troubles are nowhere to be seen.
All in all this album has had to have been a labor of love, because it has a real wonderful feeling of purpose to it, and I'm glad to have heard it.
Yes, I'm a fan of theirs, I won't lie, but their music transcends what people probably expect of them when they hear the word Chapin, especially the legacy they have had to shoulder ever since they first began singing.
I give this album, because of the inventiveness and the wonderful music and the quirky yet diverse lyrics accompanying it, 5 stars.
Give it a shot, purchase it now, and let their mood become part of yours, because yes they may be part of that whole new post-2005 L.A. pop scene, but they have staying power, at least I think so.
(Thanks for reading, and check out my other reviews here online.)
I gushed about their debut release (reviewed here on Amazon), and in the last two years I've seen their inventive videos and live performances on YouTube and online streamings in concert, so it's important to understand they are not fooling when it comes to their talent - they can sing and on this album they prove it.
With the "taking a break for my new baby" departure earlier in 2010 of the third founding member, Jessica Craven, the Sisters are now a duet & sister act - two to the power of two. This album has also taken a kind of 180 degree turnaround from their initial more playful pessimistic tones which was evident in some of their early music, which also proves to me that they can mature as artists. Granted, there are still glimpses of their quirky and dark humor injected in with their lush tones, but it's worth it when you find it and are somehow in on the subtle joke.
10 songs move over less than an hour, so you'd better sit down somewhere, because once you start this album up to listen, you won't want to get up:
1. Sweet Light - The harmonies, the quiet guitars, and their songwriting once again take you in to shower you with their stories, and the opening track is no exception. Their lyrics are earthy here, and they miss you, and they want you to know that their memories of you are part of the sun, and the trees, and the wind. It's fantastic that they can paint a picture with words so well.
2. I Can Feel - She's in love with her lover, or at least the love she's feeling is coming from storm clouds, and in the rain, and the coming night, and it's all around her. And there's no reciprocation, which makes it sad and she's trying to get you to see how she's feeling...
3. Paradise - Just a song about how she's feeling, and you're part of the equation, but are you also the solution?
4. Digging a Hole - I was exposed to this song first, as it was a YouTube release. It is a haunting, hypnotic, wonderfully crafted song, and the music video is a partner in its crime. It has shades of The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy Foe The Devil," as the song swirls and dances around you like a lick of fire, bringing you closer to Abigail and Lily's laments.
5. Palm Tree - the most polished song on the album, and the most radio-friendly. It's like a ballad, a slow dancing song, written in an even slower country style, and it's as if the 70's were back for a minute, with longing for love hanging, oddly, like leaves from the old palm tree.
6. Boo Hoo - She doesn't want to let you back in, but she loves you, and even the weather tells her it's right to love you for some reason. This has a slow Doors vibe to it, and makes it even more wonderful in that the song is a bit sad but positive, in a Carly Simon "Jesse" kind of way.
7. Birds in my Garden - One of the darkest feeling songs here, it's actually a leftover song from their first album, but was set aside. It now jumps out of the speakers and grabs you in the way their first album did for me. Their harmonies are wrapped tightly around the music (is that a melodica or harmonium and flute I hear?) and lifts you away from the dark situation it presents to you. It's haunting, but definitely keep looking back.
8. Roses in Winter - This left me feeling relaxed yet horrible, and I mean this in the best way possible. This song has the power to make me not want to fight her when she says in her (once again) hypnotic and earthy lyrics:
"Take it easy, baby... take it easy, baby
Take it easy, take it easy... cause all I wanted was
Roses in the winter..."
It's one of the best songs on the album.
9. Left All Alone - This is song is what makes the Chapin Sisters sound so unique - it's peppy and almost upbeat, but the lyrics, about being abandoned and left thinking about what might have been, bring the song right back down to earth, the way only these girls can sing it.
10. Trouble - this song is the most "folksy" as it has the essentials for a folk song - a banjo keeping time, wonderful harmony (once again), and they painted a final picture of a lazy barefoot walk in the summer rain as their troubles are nowhere to be seen.
All in all this album has had to have been a labor of love, because it has a real wonderful feeling of purpose to it, and I'm glad to have heard it.
Yes, I'm a fan of theirs, I won't lie, but their music transcends what people probably expect of them when they hear the word Chapin, especially the legacy they have had to shoulder ever since they first began singing.
I give this album, because of the inventiveness and the wonderful music and the quirky yet diverse lyrics accompanying it, 5 stars.
Give it a shot, purchase it now, and let their mood become part of yours, because yes they may be part of that whole new post-2005 L.A. pop scene, but they have staying power, at least I think so.
(Thanks for reading, and check out my other reviews here online.)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By roseanna
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Beautiful voices, tight harmonies and interesting cuts. A bit of lazy enunciation, but that fits the genre. This one is fine for a lazy afternoon.
