Monday Morning Cold

Erin McKeown

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Artist: Erin McKeown (See All Albums by Erin McKeown)
Genre: Rock/Pop
Label: The Orchard

Total Tracks: 11 Total Length: 60:14

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Amelia Raitt

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Amelia Raitt is a former writer for the television program Mr. Belvedere and has been writing about pop music of all colors and stripes for eMusic since 2005. S...more »

04.22.11

Erin McKeown, Monday Morning Cold

Label: The Orchard

A unique snapshot of McKeown's early days, Monday Morning Cold shows the singer working to discover her unique voice. Opener "Fast As I Can" is sweet and soothing, McKeown's coy vocals creeping across clattering percussion and clotheslines of guitar. "My Hips" is loose an ragged, a cat's cradle of guitar arpeggios, criss-crossing and knotting up. "How to Open My Heart in 4 Easy Steps" is bare and aching, on par with the early, haunted work of Cat Power. Monday Morning may predate McKeown's signature sound, but it's not without its many charms.

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Bad bitrates

ColtraneWasGod

The music is not essential, but it would still be worth downloading if the bitrates were remotely adequate. However, they range from 98 to 150, with most tracks below the barely adequate 128.

For Erin Fans only

Proxy

If you're a big fan of this fantastic singer/ songwriter than these are an interesting listen. If you're new to her than try Grand or Distillation first. One huge niggle is that the encoding is at really low bit-rates (128Kb and lower). Come on emusic.. 192Kb should be the minimum.

a weak early effort

BarmyFotheringayPhipps

This album is an amalgam of live tracks and solo demos that predates McKeown's "real" debut album by a couple years. It's basically juvenalia, a bunch of fairly weak singer-songwriter tunes by a very young songwriter who would later become really really good but at this time was just kind of flailing. Even if -- like me -- you're a huge Erin McKeown fan, be warned that this album just isn't really very good.