Red vinyl with 4 page lyric booklet

Tracy Wilson's old band, Dahlia Seed, had a hardbut melodic instrumentation that mixed so well with Tracy's sweetand fiery vocals. Dahlia Seed broke up in 1996 and it all becamerather quiet around Tracy Wilson. In 2007 a cdR album was releasedwith her new band Ringfinger. An album that would be released as avinyl edition the year after. Tracy Wilson also made a pressrelease that explained her stretch of heartache and trauma, itseemed clear that Decimal had been the record that saved her life.Let's face it—anything that has this kind of weight riding on it isscary. How can you place judgment on another person's pain? Butwhat if the therapeutic process of making a record to save yourselfdoesn't translate? I guess, in the end, I came out feeling a littlebit of both, that it did and didn't transpose. A few listens later,as the record started to sink in, a tinge of "excited" ran throughme as Wilson belted out, "What am I doing, missing a stranger?"Catchy melodies like this continue to decorate the record alongwith secretly trippy sounds and depressing undertones. It's clearthis is the same Tracy from the Dahlia Seed days, only she'sswapped a bit of her badass edginess for a sadder, wimpier model.Her voice is still lovely—you can certainly tell—but her whispery,cat-like cries left me a bit nostalgic for some of that strong,independent bite that made me idolize her in the first place. Therecord definitely has its ups and downs. And sometimes, I'm sorryto say, she just gets it all wrong, like on "Landing Strip," whereshe moans, "You are a spoon/I am a mouth, so feed me." This bringsto mind the image of that creepy plant from Little Shop of Horrors,which pretty much speaks for itself. There are more trackshere that doesnt suite my taste but thats also songs I reallyliked. Stephen Brodsky became a new favourite with his catchy,quirky "Pin Me Down," the only song not sung by Tracy and alsofeaturing his brother on drums in their debut performance as a duo.His sing-song, rhyme melodies brightened up the whole record,despite their lyrical downer-ness, "She tries to pin me down justlike a hand me down/She tried to pin me down, but I came undone bydesign." The slinky "aahs" and sighs in the background give it anold-timey quality I can never resist. On "Four Misused Letters,"Cam DiNunzio's soothing voice joins Tracy's breathy vocals, andtogether they sing you to sleep with their lullaby sounds. Whatthey're singing about (the title gives it away) sounds like trueheartbreak, but with the two of them together by your side, you canbe sure you'll sleep like a baby and dream of lambs and tea partiesno matter what they're saying. And it was the titillating sound of"Elegant Excuse" where I imagined a choir swaying from side toside, stomping their feet and clapping their hands to thebackground "oohs," the click-clacking of the drums, and thetweaking sound of guitar while it crawled alongside the vocals,building up like a cliffhanger in a novel and bursting out into thefierce sound of tinny magic. Overall, this is not as hard as DahliaSeed but it still has that familiar feeling to the record. Its atrip-hop, ambient, drone, experimental, mellow-electronic, BlackBox Recorder meets Tracy And The Plastics (and occasionally bumpsinto Bjork) kind of way. Sometimes it gives you the feeling thatyou should be listening to this all alone in a dark attic with onlycandlelight. But maybe this romantic bleakness is part of thecharm, eh?

Track list:
1. Typewriter Tourist
2. Waving Goodbye
3. Joy Lingers
4. Viking Funeral
5. Landing Strip
6. Pin Me Down
7. Miss Me
8. Elegant Excuse
9. AWOL W/ Adore
10. Mining For Diamonds
11. Four Misused Letters
12. Death Star

Condition cover:vg+

Condition vinyl:nm

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