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Hope (EP) (CD)

By: Palace Songs (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Hope (EP) (CD) Album By Palace Songs (Artist)
1   Agnes, Queen Of Sorrows
2   Untitled
3   Winter Lady
4   Christmastime In The Mountains
5   All Gone, All Gone
6   Werner's Last Blues To Blokbuster
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (2/9/95, pp.58-59) - 3 Stars - Good - "...HOPE augments its arrangements with piano, organ, bass, drums and electric guitar. The clarity and fullness of sound create a less intimate recording....but that doesn't stop the mournful procession of tunes..."
Spin (3/95, p.96) - 8 - Highly Recommended - "...Like its predecessors, HOPE is achingly beautiful, homespun, honest....Palace songs...are simple plaintive pieces that sound for all the world as if they emerged whole from an obscure Kentucky mountain town..."
Option (3-4/95, p.125) - "...Will Oldham (Palace, Palace Brothers) sings of loneliness, alienation, and the sad search for redemption like someone in a backwoods version of WAITING FOR GODOT....Like an old western landscape, it's stark, desolate and deeply poetic..."
NME (Magazine) (12/17/94, p.31) - 6 - Good - "...The mood here is still miserable, certainly, but the starkness is warmed through with the rattles of a detuned piano, slinking slide guitar and high-reaching harmonies..."

Title Note

Palace Songs: Will "Push" Oldham (vocals, guitar, bass); Liam Hayes (electric guitar, piano, organ); Sean O'Hagan (piano, background vocals); Rian Murphy (drums, background vocals); Rob Allum (drums); Briana Corrigan (background vocals).

Producers include: Rian Murphy.

Engineers: Konrad Strauss, Reza Ebrahimi, Charlie Francis.

Recorded in Chicago, Illinois and London, England.

1994 was a productive year for the Palace camp, with the release of an excellent sophomore effort (DAYS IN THE WAKE) and two strong EPs (the import AN ARROW THROUGH THE BITCH and the domestic HOPE) that exist at opposite ends of the Palace spectrum. Where ARROW contains dark, weird songs full of death imagery and strange sounds, HOPE is the sprightliest and most sunny of all Will Oldham's recordings.

The sound is filled out considerably by piano and organ (courtesy of High Llamas' Sean O'Hagan among others), and the overall tone more upbeat, even when things inevitably turn introspective. An effective cover of the pretty, romantic Leonard Cohen ballad "Winter Lady" indicates the direction of HOPE. The lyrics are often full of the loopy non-sequitirs that were becoming a large part of Oldham's modus operandi. HOPE is an effective marriage of off-kilter romance and lo-fi folk-rock.

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