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Transistor Radio (Digipak) (CD)

By: M. Ward (Artist)

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M. Ward Artist Snapshot:

Singer/songwriter M. Ward, a protege of Giant Sand leader Howe Gelb, made a splash on the indie-rock scene in the early-to-mid-2000s, despite being closer in spirit to John Fahey (guitar-wise) and Bob Dylan (in songwriting style) than to any alt-rockers. Ward's laconic, blues-and-folk-inflected style offered a slightly more roots-conscious alternative to contemporaneous indie-folk peers like Iron & Wine, and he earned a steady following for his sharply written, modestly presented songs.

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DISC 1 for Transistor Radio (Digipak) (CD) Album By M. Ward (Artist)
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   Lullabye & Exile
16   Well-Tempered Clavier
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.79) - 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..."
Uncut (p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 - "This is uncluttered, radiant music with the lightest touch and muggiest of voices..."
Magnet (p.53) - Ranked #8 in Magnet's "The 20 Best Albums Of 2005" - "[It's] akin to extraterrestrial border radio, bouncing through time, space and memory."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.92) - 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."

Title Note

Personnel include: Jim James (vocals, guitar); Vic Chesnutt (vocals); Old Joe Clarks (whistle, bass instrument, percussion); Howe Gelb (piano); John Parish, Jordan Hudson, Rachel Blumberg (drums).

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.

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