Widowspeak - Expect the Best (2017)
Widowspeak - Expect the Best (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +cue, log, m3u - 214 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 83 MB | 00:35:32
Dream Pop, Indie Rock, Female Vocals | Label: Captured Tracks
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +cue, log, m3u - 214 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 83 MB | 00:35:32
Dream Pop, Indie Rock, Female Vocals | Label: Captured Tracks
Seven years in, Widowspeak remain purveyors of mood. Existing in a sonic overlap of indie rock, dream pop, downtrodden shoegaze, slow-core and invented "cowboy grunge", Widowspeak use familiar aesthetics as a narrative device, a purposeful nostalgic backdrop for songs that ask, "How did we get here?" Expect the Best, their fourth for Brooklyn's Captured Tracks, sees Widowspeak finding balance between opposing forces: darkness / light, quiet / loud, tension / calm. Moving around specifically the move back to the place where Hamilton grew up was the catalyst for a record concerned with self-examination and the sense of dread that comes from feeling adrift ("Dog"). Whether navigating anxieties in the digital age ("Expect the Best"), struggling for motivation ("When I Tried") or critiquing wanderlust and aspiration ("The Dream"), the songs here recognize you can't go back in time. The band navigates dynamic changes with subtlety and restraint; the nine tracks brim with both wide-eyed optimism and resigned melancholy. Their usual palette of dusty guitars and angular twang are still front and center, but now with a 90s homage, even if abstractly. It's perhaps their heaviest record to date, but never loses the sense of intimacy Widowspeak is known for.
TRACKLIST
01. The Dream
02. When I Tried
03. Dog
04. Warmer
05. Good Sport
06. Let Me
07. Right On
08. Expect the Best
09. Fly on the Wall
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Widowspeak / Expect The Best
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EAC extraction logfile from 19. August 2017, 10:40
Widowspeak / Expect The Best
Used drive : MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ8A0A Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 102
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo
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1 | 0:00.00 | 4:21.67 | 0 | 19641
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4 | 12:58.17 | 3:52.30 | 58367 | 75796
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6 | 18:38.25 | 3:45.61 | 83875 | 100810
7 | 22:24.11 | 2:53.03 | 100811 | 113788
8 | 25:17.14 | 3:36.48 | 113789 | 130036
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