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- Date Released: March 3, 2009
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative, Rock
- Label: Second Motion / Redeye
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In 2009, on the threshold of making another album with his former band, the Church, Marty Willson-Piper created a slightly flawed jangle pop masterpiece, one that finds him consolidating his position as both the most melodically sophisticated and, too frequently, the most pretentious of the band's songwriting members. His strengths and weaknesses are nicely summed up on Nightjar's third track: "More Is Less" is built on a beautiful fingerpicked acoustic guitar part and a delicately lovely sung melody that alternates subtly between diatonic and modal settings to dreamily lovely effect. At the same time, its lyrics are self-righteous and the arrangement is too precious by half. But as he's gotten older he's become more willing to temper his tendency toward self-indulgence in the interest of popcraft, resulting in such utter gems of hookwise jangle pop as "Lullabye for the Lonely"; a slow, rich, and gorgeous rocker called "The Sniper"; and the brilliantly shimmering and swooningly tuneful "High Down Below." The album's end is inexplicable: after the conceptually bloated twaddle of "Song for Victor Jara" (minimalist arrangement, cookie-cutter politics, Dylanesque vocalisms, bamboo whistle), the program ends with a dragging, weepy waltz. You learn to take the worst with the best when it comes to Marty Willson-Piper's solo work, and it's just lucky that his best is so very, very good.
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| 01. |  |
No One There |
5:37 |
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| 02. | |
More Is Less |
4:47 |
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| 03. | |
Lullaby For The Lonely |
4:13 |
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| 04. | |
The Sniper |
6:17 |
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| 05. | |
Feed Your Mind |
5:20 |
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| 06. | |
High Down Below |
3:27 |
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| 07. | |
I Must Have Fallen |
7:17 |
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| 08. | |
The Love You Never Had |
4:22 |
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| 09. | |
Song For Victor Jara |
5:35 |
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| 10. | |
A Game For Losers |
5:00 |
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10 Total Tracks, 51:55 Total Length
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Credits
- Danny Grigsby - Mastering // Tony King - Trombone // Tony King - Trumpet // Graham Lee - Pedal Steel // Marty Willson-Piper - Guitar (Acoustic) // Marty Willson-Piper - Bass // Marty Willson-Piper - Guitar // Marty Willson-Piper - Drums // Marty Willson-Piper - Vocals // Marty Willson-Piper - Lyricist // Marty Willson-Piper - Bazouki // Marty Willson-Piper - String Arrangements // Marty Willson-Piper - 6-String Bass // Marty Willson-Piper - Cover Design // Marty Willson-Piper - Guitar (12 String Acoustic) // Dare Mason - Organ // Dare Mason - Piano // Dare Mason - Strings // Dare Mason - Vocals (Background) // Dare Mason - Producer // Dare Mason - Engineer // Dare Mason - Sleigh Bells // Dare Mason - Vocal Arrangement // Dare Mason - String Arrangements // Dare Mason - Mixing // Rachel Gutek - Design // Rachel Gutek - Layout Design // John Bickerstethe - Piano // Allen Samuel - Violin // Mike Majik Boyd - Piano // Jeremy Boyd - Piano Engineer // Stephen Judge - Promoter // Catrina Davies - Cello // Julie Elwin - Vocals (Background) // Julie Elwin - Piano-Accordian // Julie Elwin - Bamboo Whistle // Tiare Helberg - Vocals // Tiare Helberg - Vocals (Background) // Tiare Helberg - Art Direction // Tiare Helberg - Photography // Tiare Helberg - Concept Design // Nick McLeod - Drums
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