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Eric
Bachmann will release To The Races on August 22nd on Saddle
Creek Records. The release marks the first time Bachmann has
chosen to release an album under his own name.
Recording under the moniker Crooked Fingers since 2000, Bachmann
has released four albums of charmingly melancholic music that
have earned him a reputation as arguably one of the finest singer-songwriters
to emerge in recent years.
Markedly different than 2005's highly praised and most immediately
accessible Crooked Fingers' release Dignity and Shame (Merge)
- which received 4-star reviews from Details and Maxim, while
"(giving the) stale singer-songwriter consortium a nice
kick in the pants" (Alternative Press) - To The Races is
as skeletally spare as it is insightful and restrained. It is
fitting that Bachmann chose such an austere album as the first
Eric Bachmann solo release: no pretenses, no pseudonyms, no
ornamentation - qualities that also mirror the album's writing
and recording process: To The Races was mainly written in the
summer of 2005 while Bachmann voluntarily chose to live in the
back of his touring van.
After making the best of the hospitable Northwestern summer
by setting up home and shop in his vehicle, Bachmann waited
until December to record To The Races in only a week's time,
self-recording its entirety in a hotel in the Outer Banks town
of Buxton, NC. Joined on only a few songs by Devotchka's violinist
Tom Hagerman and Austin, TX's Miranda Brown on backing vocals,
To The Races is a stunning collection of songs examining both
self-imposed isolation and the search for human connection. |
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To
The Races
Saddle Creek Records
August 2006 |
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