M. Ward - Transistor Radio
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Artist: M. WardEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-02-22
Music Label: Merge Records
Soundtracks:
- You Still Believe In Me
- One Life Away
- Sweethearts On Parade
- Hi-Fi
- Fuel For Fire
- Four Hours In Washington
- Regeneration No. 1
- Big Boat
- Paul's Song
- Radio Campaign
- Here Comes The Sun Again
- Deep Dark Well
- Oh Take Me Back
- I'll Be Yr Bird
- Lullabye & Exile
- Well Tempered Clavier
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Free Music Review: This one has got it all
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD is one of my all time favorites. It has all the elements of music that I love - beautiful sounds, soul-provoking smart lyrics, some rhythm, and variety.
Transistor Radio Poster
From a half-named troubadour with an otherworldly voice and an old time sensibility comes this fourth full-length, a collection of songs "about childhood memories of a utopian radio power", dedicated to "the last of the remaining independent radio stations." With songs normally associated with the front porches of Louisiana, back when families gathered around the radio instead of the TV, "Transistor Radio" fits somewhere between your great-grandfather's collection of 78 rpm records and current and timeless artists such as Iron & Wine, Gram Parsons, and Tom Waits. Guests include Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley), Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), and Jordan Hudson (The Thermals).Transistor Radio may be bookmarked by instrumentals, but M. Ward's cracked, jazzy croon is the true star of all his work. The sixteen tunes here all sound like sketches that became songs on the spot, and we all know the well-crafted illusion of spontaneity is a very difficult thing to pull off repeatedly. His most consistently enjoyable album to date, Transistor offers breezy, smart, poppy music very much in the American folk tradition, from country blues to bleary-eyed bedroom strums. This is the soundtrack to a lazy Sunday when you sleep in, read the Times in bed, cuddle with a friend, then finally leave the house for cheese grits. "I'll Be Yr Bird" sounds like the Fruit Bats collaborating with Vic Chesnutt, while Ward recalls Stew on "Hi Fi," the deadpan lyrics over lazy, lovely sounds: "Why burn your bridges when you can blow your bridges up?" The laudanum-like charms of Ward's music are tough to resist. --Mike McGonigal
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