M. WARD "TRANSISTOR RADIO" OOP, MINT CONDITION, SEALED

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no wear on LP jacket, sealed and in mint condition.

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Track listing 1. You Still Believe in Me
2. One Life Away
3. Sweethearts On Parade
4. Hi-Fi
5. Fuel for Fire
6. Four Hours in Washington
7. Regeneration No. 1
8. Big Boat
9. Paul's Song
10. Radio Campaign
11. Here Comes the Sun Again
12. Deep Dark Well
13. Oh, Take Me Back
14. I'll Be Yr Bird
15. Lullaby + Exile
16. Well-Tempered Clavier

Details Distributor: Alternative Dis. Alliance Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a
Album notes Personnel: Jenny Lewis (vocals); Old Joe Clarks (whistle, bass instrument, percussion); Jordan Hudson (drums); Jim James (vocals, guitar); Vic Chesnutt (vocals); Howe Gelb (piano); John Parish, Rachel Blumberg (drums).
Audio Mixers: Adam Selzer ; Larry Crane .
Recording information: Jackpot!; Mike Coyendall's Attic, Portland, Jamaica; Type Fondry!; Wavelab!.
Photographer: Zak Riles.
On his second album for Merge Records, M. Ward refines his inventive indie-folk sound, opting for a pleasantly laid-back mood. The record opens with a beautiful instrumental reading of Brian Wilson's "You Still Believe in Me," a song so marked by Ward's distinctive acoustic-guitar phrasing that it's easy to forget it's a classic Beach Boys tune. Throughout TRANSISTOR RADIO, Ward is an idiosyncratic wonder--he sounds like he's been recorded at a turn-of-the-20th-century tavern on "One Life Away," while "Big Boat" conjures up the atmosphere of a 1950s Sun Records studio rehearsal. Despite this anachronistic quality, the record is remarkably cohesive, with each track confidently flowing into the next like a decades-spanning Americana broadcast. With his uniquely raspy voice and his wonderfully whimsical storytelling, Ward is shaping up to be one of the finest singer/songwriters of his generation, and TRANSISTOR RADIO makes that notion abundantly clear.

Editorial reviews 4 stars out of 5 - This is uncluttered, radiant music with the lightest touch and muggiest of voices...
Uncut  

3 stars out of 5 - [T]here's a quality of remembrance about the album - haunted in 'Sweethearts On Parade', warm in 'I'll Be Yr Bird' - which recalls the gnawing ambiguity of Twin Peaks.
Mojo  

3 stars out of 5 - [Ward] has imbibed a sense of remorse and cold-eyed mortality from country blues and Appalachian mountain music, and incorporates them into his own decidedly modern songwriting...
Rolling Stone  

Ranked #8 in Magnet's The 20 Best Albums Of 2005 - [It's] akin to extraterrestrial border radio, bouncing through time, space and memory.
Magnet  

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