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Track List
01) Be Here Now
02) Empty
03) Barfly
04) Three More Days
05) Can I Stay
06) You Can Bring Me Flowers
07) Gone Away From Me
08) Lesson Learned
09) Truly, Madly, Deeply
10) Till the Sun Turns Black
11) Within You
01) Be Here Now
02) Empty
03) Barfly
04) Three More Days
05) Can I Stay
06) You Can Bring Me Flowers
07) Gone Away From Me
08) Lesson Learned
09) Truly, Madly, Deeply
10) Till the Sun Turns Black
11) Within You
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First Released
2006
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Till The Sun Turns Black is singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne's second full-length release, which was released on August 29, 2006. The album was produced by Ethan Johns and recorded at Allaire Studios in Shokan, New York. The album was a commercial success, becoming a top 40 album, selling 28,000 copies in its first week of release. The album was released in the UK on June 18, 2007, where it peaked at #35 on the UK Albums Chart.
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For a man who likes to pose as an idiosyncratic loner, Ray LaMontagne has a lot of musical friends. On Till The Sun Turns Black, the follow-up to the much acclaimed 2004 album, Trouble, are echoes of David Bowie ca. Space Oddity, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and even Miles Davis. All these influences are carefully worked into LaMontagne’s own particular world-view and suggest too this brooding cowboy might want a bigger audience.
The New Hampshire-born singer delivers a stirring cycle of songs that summon us to hope while never quite shedding their melancholy burden. The opening track, "Be Here Now", fades into existence gently, coming out of some inner silence to settle and brood – throughout the album we return to these silent spaces of reflection and regret. "Barfly" is a bittersweet round-the-fire guitar song, which finds the singer on familiar territory: America, nowhere special, all alone, contemplating his fate. "Three More Days" reminds us that he can do the blues as well as sound just plain blue.
Noted alt-country producer Ethan Johns (who has also worked with Ryan Adams and the Kings of Leon) was criticised for smoothing down some of the rough edges on Trouble and once again his hand in honing the overall feel of songs is evident. LaMontagne has said he chose songs that “ate away” at him for Till The Sun…, but sometimes the raw emotion of his voice is woven into an overly polished treatment. The horns on "Gone Away from Me" and "Within You" don’t embellish so much as clutter those tracks. In contrast, the lean strings on "Empty" work beautifully with the understated mood and whispering vocals.
He’s not a great writer, but he excels at imbuing simple lyrics with portentous significance. LaMontagne loves the second person singular – not necessarily the ideal folk-song voice – but he addresses his subjects with real pain and occasional anger - and it works.
The best songs on the album, "Lesson Learned" and "Empty", are probably neither as convincing nor as complex as "Jolene" on Trouble. In some ways that song remains a benchmark, for achieving the perfect balance of thought and feeling that keeps LaMontagne from falling too far into the sensitive-songwriter mode. Till the Sun Turns Black is a quite beautiful record. Somewhere to rest on the journey between a contemporary American culture he clearly loathes and the Great Diner in the Sky that awaits us all.
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Till The Sun Turns Black is singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne's second full-length release, which was released on August 29, 2006. The album was produced by Ethan Johns and recorded at Allaire Studios in Shokan, New York. The album was a commercial success, becoming a top 40 album, selling 28,000 copies in its first week of release. The album was released in the UK on June 18, 2007, where it peaked at #35 on the UK Albums Chart.
User Album Review
For a man who likes to pose as an idiosyncratic loner, Ray LaMontagne has a lot of musical friends. On Till The Sun Turns Black, the follow-up to the much acclaimed 2004 album, Trouble, are echoes of David Bowie ca. Space Oddity, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and even Miles Davis. All these influences are carefully worked into LaMontagne’s own particular world-view and suggest too this brooding cowboy might want a bigger audience.
The New Hampshire-born singer delivers a stirring cycle of songs that summon us to hope while never quite shedding their melancholy burden. The opening track, "Be Here Now", fades into existence gently, coming out of some inner silence to settle and brood – throughout the album we return to these silent spaces of reflection and regret. "Barfly" is a bittersweet round-the-fire guitar song, which finds the singer on familiar territory: America, nowhere special, all alone, contemplating his fate. "Three More Days" reminds us that he can do the blues as well as sound just plain blue.
Noted alt-country producer Ethan Johns (who has also worked with Ryan Adams and the Kings of Leon) was criticised for smoothing down some of the rough edges on Trouble and once again his hand in honing the overall feel of songs is evident. LaMontagne has said he chose songs that “ate away” at him for Till The Sun…, but sometimes the raw emotion of his voice is woven into an overly polished treatment. The horns on "Gone Away from Me" and "Within You" don’t embellish so much as clutter those tracks. In contrast, the lean strings on "Empty" work beautifully with the understated mood and whispering vocals.
He’s not a great writer, but he excels at imbuing simple lyrics with portentous significance. LaMontagne loves the second person singular – not necessarily the ideal folk-song voice – but he addresses his subjects with real pain and occasional anger - and it works.
The best songs on the album, "Lesson Learned" and "Empty", are probably neither as convincing nor as complex as "Jolene" on Trouble. In some ways that song remains a benchmark, for achieving the perfect balance of thought and feeling that keeps LaMontagne from falling too far into the sensitive-songwriter mode. Till the Sun Turns Black is a quite beautiful record. Somewhere to rest on the journey between a contemporary American culture he clearly loathes and the Great Diner in the Sky that awaits us all.
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