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jackhammer · 10-26-2008, 02:57 PM

Carissa's Wierd - Songs About Leaving (2002)

'Songs About Leaving' is one of the most depressingly uplifting albums I have ever heard. The beautifully produced combo of simple acoustic guitars backed by exquisite strings and understated piano work will melt the hardest heart. Lay some perfectly timbred male and female over the top and you have
something achingly beautiful.

The album was produced within a week and is the more remarkable for it. Perhaps this intense work period benefits the melancholia with the band capturing their bittersweet mood perfectly.

It's the little things in this album that gives it an elegance. A perfectly placed use of strings here or a simply laid down drum track there add a resonance that pushes the compositions up another notch again.

Bleeding hearts acoustic Pop is not really my thing but this is so effortless and because it never strays into being one long depressing love letter, it always pulls me in.

MySpace.com - Carissa's Wierd - SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - Folk / Indie / Indie - www.myspace.com/carissaswierd

10-26-2008, 02:57 PM	#33 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Carissa's Wierd - Songs About Leaving (2002) 'Songs About Leaving' is one of the most depressingly uplifting albums I have ever heard. The beautifully produced combo of simple acoustic guitars backed by exquisite strings and understated piano work will melt the hardest heart. Lay some perfectly timbred male and female over the top and you have something achingly beautiful. The album was produced within a week and is the more remarkable for it. Perhaps this intense work period benefits the melancholia with the band capturing their bittersweet mood perfectly. It's the little things in this album that gives it an elegance. A perfectly placed use of strings here or a simply laid down drum track there add a resonance that pushes the compositions up another notch again. Bleeding hearts acoustic Pop is not really my thing but this is so effortless and because it never strays into being one long depressing love letter, it always pulls me in. MySpace.com - Carissa's Wierd - SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - Folk / Indie / Indie - www.myspace.com/carissaswierd __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”