Cerys Matthews-Never Said Goodbye-CD-FLAC-2006-401

     Artist......: Cerys Matthews
     Album.......: Never Said Goodbye
     Source......: CD
     Label.......: Rough Trade
     Genre.......: Indie
     Tracks......: 13
     Bitrate.....: 797 kbps avg
     Playtime....: 00:39:09  (236.MB)
     Rls date....: 2021-07-05
     Store date..: 2006-08-21
     Encoder.....: FLAC 1.3.1
     Url.........: http://www.cerysmatthews.co.uk/
     01 Streets Of New York                                              2:58
     02 A Bird In Hand                                                   3:15
     03 Oxygen                                                           3:18
     04 Open Roads                                                       1:54
     05 This Endless Rain                                                2:28
     06 Blue Light Alarm                                                 3:30
     07 Morning Sunshine                                                 3:50
     08 Seed Song                                                        3:12
     09 What Kind Of Man                                                 2:28
     10 Ruby                                                             3:16
     11 Soul Love                                                        3:28
     12 Grace Cathedral Hill                                             2:19
     13 Elen                                                             3:13
     The former singer with Catatonia, Cerys Matthews released her second solo
     album Never Said Goodbye on the Rough Trade label in 2006 with a backing
     band featuring Ben Elkins on keyboards, Jeremy Lutito on drums, and Kevin
     Teel and Jeff Irwin on guitars. Cerys Matthews had one of those voices that
     had been described as innocent and childlike, and even during her Catatonia
     days, there had always been the problem that people did not take her
     seriously. On this album the tracks moved slowly along, pleasant folky
     numbers with that distinctive voice, but by the end of track three,
     "Oxygen," she wanted to make sure nobody was falling asleep and begins to
     scream as if the element was in short supply during the recording.
     Sometimes however, the songs were just too slow, for example "Blue Light
     Alarm," which was a pleasant little trippy number and woke up almost near
     the end when the rest of the band joined her on a chanted chorus. "Morning
     Sunshine" had elements of the '60s Mamas & the Papas era and although the
     album was recorded in her new home of Nashville, she never forgot her
     Cardiff roots as the album ended with the ballad "Elen" sung in Welsh.

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18M	02-cerys_matthews-a_bird_in_hand.flac
22M	03-cerys_matthews-oxygen.flac
11M	04-cerys_matthews-open_roads.flac
13M	05-cerys_matthews-this_endless_rain.flac
21M	06-cerys_matthews-blue_light_alarm.flac
24M	07-cerys_matthews-morning_sunshine.flac
19M	08-cerys_matthews-seed_song.flac
14M	09-cerys_matthews-what_kind_of_man.flac
18M	10-cerys_matthews-ruby.flac
25M	11-cerys_matthews-soul_love.flac
14M	12-cerys_matthews-grace_cathedral_hill.flac
15M	13-cerys_matthews-elen.flac
228M	total