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- Date Released: April 19, 2005
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: Locust Music / IODA
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We Say...
With a quivering soprano that effortlessly evokes the sacred peace-folk triumvirate (Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez and Shirley Collins), Josephine Foster's high, tiny warble lends her records an otherworldly elegance, all rising spirits and blossoming snapdragons. Hazel Eyes... is Foster's solo debut, following a slot on the Banhart-curated Golden Apples of the Sun compilation and collaborations with her bands, Born Heller and the Supposed. Unsurprisingly, Foster's pretty pipes can be sinister and foreboding, whistling warnings over a haze of flute and strum or re-tooling nursery rhymes with vaguely menacing aplomb: "Shush little baby, you be cool!/ Or you're gonna grow into a crackerjack fool!/ Caw caw caw caw..."
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They Say...
On Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You, Josephine Foster trades the rangy psych-folk of her 2004 album with the Supposed for the lonesome chill of an empty studio. She handles everything on Hazel Eyes, from layering her vibrating saw blade of a voice to accompanying it with kazoo, dulcimer, harp, homemade percussion, and, at the center, her dry and spindly acoustic guitar. Foster's singing often consists of a wordless, moody sigh. But she also fills the corners of her lilting, swaying songs with talk of bones, treasure, and hominy grits. Her antiquated enunciation can be little trying -- she's from Chicago, not Kisimul Castle. But the style works if you let yourself believe that Hazel Eyes is a crazy old 78 you found in an attic. (Its runic, earth mother cover art helps.) Alongside the album's more esoteric material -- including "Pruner's Pair" and the raga-like "Celebrant's Song" -- are pieces with an at least an element of easygoing fun, like the casual, old-timey flair of "Good News," or "Golden Wooden Tone," which with its kazoos, harmonies, and tumbling jacks percussion is downright gleeful. Gleeful like the final song of Puritan girls condemned for witchery, but gleeful nevertheless. For fans of Espers, Joanna Newsom, and Foster's own work in the comparatively less strange Born Heller.
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| 01. |  |
The Siren's Admonition |
4:24 |
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| 02. | |
Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You |
3:26 |
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| 03. | |
By The Shape Of Your Pearls |
1:22 |
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| 04. | |
Stones Throw From Heaven |
3:18 |
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| 05. | |
Where There Are Trees |
1:22 |
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| 06. | |
The Golden Wooden Tone |
3:01 |
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| 07. | |
There Are Eyes Above |
3:50 |
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| 08. | |
Celebrant's Song |
3:41 |
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| 09. | |
Good News |
3:07 |
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| 10. | |
Trees Lay By |
2:59 |
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| 11. | |
The Pruner's Pair |
3:10 |
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| 12. | |
Crackerjack Fool |
2:40 |
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| 13. | |
The Way Is Sweetly Mown |
4:44 |
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| 14. | |
Hominy Grits |
2:21 |
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14 Total Tracks, 43:25 Total Length
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Credits
- Jeff Mann - Engineer // Jeff Mann - Mixing // Jeff Mann - Audio Engineer // Brock Manke - Layout Design // Josephine Foster - Flute // Josephine Foster - Flute // Josephine Foster - Guitar // Josephine Foster - Guitar // Josephine Foster - Castanets // Josephine Foster - Castanets // Josephine Foster - Harp // Josephine Foster - Harp // Josephine Foster - Kazoo // Josephine Foster - Kazoo // Josephine Foster - Sitar // Josephine Foster - Sitar // Josephine Foster - Tambourine // Josephine Foster - Tambourine // Josephine Foster - Ukulele // Josephine Foster - Ukulele // Josephine Foster - Vocals // Josephine Foster - Vocals // Josephine Foster - Bells // Josephine Foster - Bells // Josephine Foster - Spoons // Josephine Foster - Spoons // Josephine Foster - Producer // Josephine Foster - Producer // Josephine Foster - Tin Whistle // Josephine Foster - Tin Whistle // Josephine Foster - Design // Josephine Foster - Design // Josephine Foster - Blocks // Josephine Foster - Blocks // Josephine Foster - Audio Production // Josephine Foster - Audio Production // Josephine Foster - Accompaniment // Josephine Foster - Accompaniment // Josephine Foster - Cover Art // Josephine Foster - Cover Art // Ernst Karel - Mastering // Clay Ruby - Engineer // Clay Ruby - Audio Engineer
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