ARTiST: William Fitzsimmons
ALBUM: Gold In The Shadow
BiTRATE: 168kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Gronland
GENRE: Indie
SiZE: 89.32 megs
PLAYTiME: 1h 10min 24sec total
RiP DATE: 2011-03-26
STORE DATE: 2011-03-25
Track List: Disc #1/2
01. The Tide Pulls From The Moon 3:40
02. Beautiful Girl 2:39
03. The Winter From Her Leaving 3:26
04. Fade And Then Return 4:42
05. Psychasthenia 4:15
06. Bird Of Winter Prey 4:02
07. Let You Break (Feat. Julia 3:23
Stone)
08. Wounded Head 2:59
09. Tied To Me 4:30
10. What Hold 4:05
Track List: Disc #2/2
01. Bird Of Winter Prey (Acoustic 3:34
Version)
02. Ever Could 3:52
03. The Tide Pulls From The Moon 3:20
Acoustic Version
04. From The Water 2:38
05. Blood And Bones 2:47
06. Fade And Then Return (Acoustic 3:38
Version)
07. Psychasthenia (Acoustic 3:27
Version)
08. Tied To Me (Acoustic Version) 3:27
09. By My Side 2:45
10. Gold In The Shadow 3:15
Release Notes:
There's always a worry that something will be lost when a previously brilliantly
bleak singer songwriter starts to cheer up. Yet it's heartening to hear
Pennsylvanian songwriter William Fitzsimmons shifting to a more optimistic
worldview than the one which consumed his divorce-themed 2008 release The
Sparrow And The Crow.
Comparisons to Iron & Wine and Sufjan Stevens are still in the right ballpark,
yet he possesses an Eels-like knack of wrapping intimate confessional lyrics in
bright and sparkly textured arrangements, something which has no doubt helped
him to get songs placed in Gray's Anatomy and One Tree Hill.
Born to two blind parents who used music as a way of connecting with their fully
sighted child, its intriguing how Fitzsimmons creates an almost multisensory
feel in these layered tapestries of folk instruments blended with subtle
electronic touches. His hushed vocals and golden melodies bring to mind Simon &
Garfunkel, particularly when married to lavish unfurling strings on Bird Of
Winter Prey. While the upbeat skipping guitars and shuffling drums of The Winter
From Her Leaving and melancholic sway of opener The Tide Pulls From The Moon are
further highlights.
The only track that seems a little undersold and lightweight is Let You Break,
an admittedly charming and very sweet duet with Sixpence None The Richer singer
Leigh Nash. Elsewhere the balance between his former pessimist and this new
demon free Fitzsimmons seems pitch perfect. Introspective lyrics such as "cut me
open please", repeated over and over between the glitchy rhythms of
Psychasthenia, are not surprising from a man who worked for several years as a
therapist.
Overall however there's a feeling of escape from the heaviness of depression, a
lifting of the dark clouds, particularly as the light lullaby-tinged plucked
acoustics of closing track What Hold drift away to the refrain "you will see
sunrise again". A lovely and timely album to accompany these first days of
Spring.
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