Album

The Letting Go

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

2006 · Rock

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The Letting Go by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

The Letting Go is a Rock album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, originally released in 2006. On Gatefold: 12 pressings tracked, owned by 4 collectors.

About

Decamped to Iceland, Will Oldham, a.k.a. Bonnie “Prince” Billy, doubles down on his usual idiosyncrasies for this beguiling 2006 album. For all the stately romance of opener “Love Comes to Me” and the soft-stepping intimacy of “I Called You Back,” between those bookends lies a truly unpredictable journey. Nico Muhly’s burnished string arrangements and Dawn McCarthy’s pleading vocal harmonies both adapt to match Oldham’s free-flowing mood swings, graduating from wispy softness to sloshing volatility for the darkly delivered “The Seedling.”

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Tracklist

  1. 1Love Comes To Me4:31
  2. 2Strange Form Of Life3:46
  3. 3Wai3:37
  4. 4Cursed Sleep5:35
  5. 5No Bad News4:45
  6. 6Cold & Wet2:21
  7. 7Big Friday2:43
  8. 8Lay And Love3:50
  9. 9The Seedling4:36
  10. 10Then The Letting Go5:19
  11. 11God's Small Song4:03
  12. 12I Called You Back7:51
  13. 13Ebb Tide5:12

Sound DNA

  • Rock
  • Folk Rock
  • cavernous
  • brooding
  • poetic

Album notes

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Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.

Packaging: 4-panel digisleeve (gatefold). Includes multi fold insert.
Recorded at the Greenhouse in Reykjavik.
Dawn McCarthy wrote her lines in "Then The Letting Go" and constructed her arrangements.
"The Seedling" owes its name to Thomas Campbell's movie.
"God's Small Song" owes its existence to the music of Baby Dee
"This is the Hour of Lead--
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow--
First--Chill--then Stupor--then the letting go--"
"Ebb Tide" is not mentioned in the albums tracklisting or credits.

Credits

The people behind it.

Performers

  • Bonnie "Prince" BillyELECTRIC PIANO ELECTRIC PIANO, WRITTEN-BY VOCALS
  • Dawn McCarthyVOCALS ARRANGED BY LYRICS BY , ARRANGED BY
  • Emmett KellyELECTRIC PIANO GUITAR GUITAR, ELECTRIC PIANO
  • Greta GuðnadóttirVIOLIN
  • Hrafnkell Orri EgilssonCELLO
  • Jim WhiteDRUMS DRUMS, ELECTRIC PIANO ELECTRIC PIANO
  • Nico MuhlyARRANGED BY
  • Paul OldhamBASS BASS, ELECTRIC PIANO ELECTRIC PIANO
  • Ryder McNairARRANGED BY
  • Una SveinbjarnardóttirVIOLIN
  • Valgeir SigurðssonELECTRIC PIANO
  • Will OldhamPERFORMER, ELECTRIC PIANO PERFORMER, VOCALS ELECTRIC PIANO
  • Þórunn Ósk MarinósdóttirVIOLA
  • Alan Licht
  • Aram Stith
  • Bobby Birdman
  • Bryan Rich
  • Colin Gagon

4 collectors on Gatefold own this · 12 pressings tracked on Gatefold

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