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...And welcome to this page dedicated to bringing you any neus on the details of Twlight, the fifth Handsome Family family, to be realeased on the 24th of September. Being honest,i have no information about the album which is why i'm gonna post the latest from other sources here. Hope it's of interest!! :
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From www.carrottoprecords.com
saki 027 Handsome Family Twilight CD
Welcome to The Handsome Family's fifth CD “Twilight”—a half-lit world of golden street lights, haunted parking lots, and invisible birds. “Twilight,” is, in part, a farewell to Chicago where The Handsome Family have lived for the last twelve years. The CD recalls the near-darkness of night in the city where the flickering TVs and traffic lights hide the sky above.
The Handsome Family is a husband-and-wife songwriting team. Brett and Rennie Sparks have been married for thirteen years, but have only collaborated musically for the last seven. While managing to stay married and play together in a band, they also manage to compose some of the most gripping songs in recent memory, with Rennie supplying the hypnotic lyrics and Brett the slightly quirky, classic country music. On their latest album, you will hear guitar, banjo, piano, musical saw, accordion, Autoharp, and melodica as well as a mismatched array of mostly live cymbals and drums.
Most Handsome Family songs combine beautiful, almost lilting melodies with lyrics that often paint modern fairy tales full of fright, despair, death, & alienation. While their trademarks are still intact, there is actually a glimmer of light in the darkness this time around. Perhaps the saddest song ever written, "Passenger Pigeons", is now offset by songs like the hopeful "Birds You Cannot See", the nostalgic "I Know You Are There", and "Peace in the Valley Once Again", a story of natural rebirth after modern society finally crumbles and stumbles to halt. Not to be overlooked, their new live favorite, "So Long", says final good-byes with winks and smiles to all of creatures great and small who have left their lives by natural and unnatural means.
As soon as the record was completed, The Handsome Family fled Chicago in the dead of night and have now taken up residence in an old stucco house in Albuquerque, New Mexico where they hope to train rattlesnakes to be world class pickpockets.
“Twilight,” like their last CD, was recorded at home using a Macintosh G3, Pro Tools and a lot of wires and blinking LCD's.
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From Q Magazine
The Handsome Family - Twilight (loose vjcd 126) : fifth album of gothic alt-country from New Mexico-based duo
New York Jewish acid casualty Rennie Sparks (words) and her husband Brett, a Texan academic (music, deadpan baritone), write timeless country folk songs that set the sparse yet striking detail of a good short story to sneakily tenacious melodies. What makes them so memroable is the mixture of the weird and the evryday, and the balance of a genuinely poetic melancholy beauty with a strain of black humour (death is never very far away). Twilight sees them moving on again - most of it deals with the uneasy co-existance of city and nature - and though it's occasionally self indulgent (and his vocal style remains a mixed blessing), repeating listening is amply repaid. 4/5. Ian Cranna.