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Artist:	THROSBY, HOLLY
Title:	On Night
Label:	WOO ME (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WOOME 003CD

"The album is licensed from Australia's biggest independent label Spunk, home to Antony & The Johnsons, The Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Alasdair Roberts, M Ward and more. On Night is a collection of eleven songs (one exclusive to this European release) which Holly wrote, sang, and played on guitar. Holly has played a ton of shows with such luminaries as Devendra Banhart and Micah P Hinson, and toured nationally with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Mark Kozelek, New Buffalo and Hayden. The Australian said 'Lyrics resonating like the economic precision of a poem. Beautiful, fragile...a real pleasure, while the Herald Sun in Melbourne said 'Picked guitar, wistful brass, strings and lilting piano. The album is a gem'".

Artist:	THROSBY, HOLLY
Title:	Under The Town
Label:	WOO ME (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	WOOME 006CD

"Like her first collection of songs, On Night, Holly made Under The Town with producer Tony Dupe at his house on Saddleback Mountain on the New South Wales south coast of Australia over the summer. But other things are different. The songs still come from a thoughtful and quiet place, but on Under The Town they are orchestrated with richer detail and more colors. Holly (guitars) was helped in this by Tony (piano, bouzouki, clarinet, trumpet), Jens Birchall (cello, double bass), label mate Jack Ladder (bass) and Bree van Reyk (drums). And this time, Tony and Holly closed the cottage windows so you can't hear the birds and insects outside. The songs on Under The Town are strong and clear, alive with crisp detail and carefully wrought melodies. Holly is a songwriter who selects her words with a poet's precision; and conjures her imagery with a painterly eye. The words are sparse and well chosen, but build rich little worlds. There's darkness here, and images in sharp focus: dim things in a pond, crows in a bed, a heart like an apple (red round and shot), kids in the dust. But there's also humour and playfulness in the instrumentation and the intricate arrangements: from toy piano ('The Shoulders and Bends') to chopsticks drumming on a window sill ('Making A Fire'), to beautiful string flourishes ('If We Go Easy'). These are songs by an artist in sure command of her delicate craft, an artistic leap forward from her highly praised debut."

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