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ARTIST: Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
TITLE: Knives Don't Have Your Back
LABEL: Last Gang Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 187kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 45m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-09-26
RIP DATE: 2006-09-07
Track List
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1. Our Hell 4:09
2. Doctor Blind 3:57
3. Crowd Surf Off A Cliff 5:56
4. Detective Daughter 5:10
5. The Lottery 3:45
6. The Maid Needs A Maid 3:21
7. Mostly Waving 3:12
8. Reading In Bed 2:49
9. Nothing & Nowhere 3:24
10. The Last Page 4:49
11. Winning 5:08
Release Notes:
http://www.emilyhaines.com/
http://www.myspace.com/emilyhaines
http://www.lastgangrecords.com/
Four years and four cities later, Metric's Emily Haines is finally (almost)
ready to release her debut solo effort.
On September 26, Last Gang Records will release Knives Don't Have Your Back,
which was written and recorded in Los Angeles, Montreal, Toronto, and New York
over the last four years, and features contributors including Sparklehorse's
Scott Minor, Broken Social Scene's Justin Peroff, Stars' Evan Cranley, and
Metric's Jimmy Shaw.
Though it took Haines four years to complete the album, the singer says she'd
been plotting this for years. "When I was a little kid," she said in a
statement, "I would creep downstairs to the piano and write rudimentary songs
about imaginary places. I'm told the first song I ever wrote was a love song to
a cranberry tree. I always used the mute pedal. I hated the idea of anybody
hearing me.
"Everywhere I've lived while working with Metric, I've written songs on the
piano and played them for no one," she continued. "On the advice of a friend, I
decided I'd better start recording them before they were forgotten."
Among those songs are a track that was written while Haines was studying
electroacoustics in Montreal, while some were recorded in Toronto in the winter
of 2002, shortly after the death of Haines' father. According to the label, the
album is intimate and mellow, featuring piano-driven tracks with string and horn
arrangements.
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