The Weakness is an Alt/Indie album by Ruston Kelly, originally released in 2023. On Gatefold: 9 pressings tracked.
About
Ruston Kelly wrote “Mending Song,” the beating heart of his third studio album, <i>The Weakness</i>, in a moment of quiet, painful reflection. The Nashville-based singer-songwriter had decamped a little ways outside of town to live by himself in an old Victorian fixer-upper in nearby Portland, Tennessee, in hopes of healing from and processing what became a very public divorce from fellow musician Kacey Musgrave. The plaintive ballad about forgiveness came to Kelly in that time of solitude, uncorking an outpouring of insight and emotion that he would gradually form into an LP to follow 2020’s <i>Shape & Destroy</i>. Appropriately, the vocal on the album version of “Mending Song” is Kelly’s original demo, capturing the crackling energy and painful vulnerability of trying to grapple with grief through song. .
via Apple Music
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Tracklist
- 1The Weakness3:27
- 2Hellfire4:02
- 3St. Jupiter2:21
- 4Let Only Love Remain3:50
- 5Michael Keaton3:19
- 6Mending Song3:49
- 7Dive2:15
- 8Breakdown3:03
- 9Holy Shit3:27
- 10Better Now3:07
- 11Wicked Hands4:36
- 12Cold Black Mile3:30
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Emo
- stripped-back
- melancholic
- heartland
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Jarrad KritzsteinVOCALS
- Nate MercereauDRUMS, BASS, FRENCH HORN, MELLOTRON, GUITAR SYNTHESIZER DRUMS, BASS, GUITAR, GUITAR SYNTHESIZER, SYNTHESIZER GUITAR SYNTHESIZER, SYNTHESIZER , DRUM PROGRAMMING
- Ruston KellyGUITAR, BARITONE GUITAR, VOCALS GUITAR, VOCALS UKULELE , GUITAR, VOCALS
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 9 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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