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01. Jonathan Bree - Happy Daze
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02. Jonathan Bree - Heavenly Vision
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03. Jonathan Bree - Waiting On The Moment
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04. Jonathan Bree - Kiss My Lips
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05. Jonathan Bree - Until We're Done
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06. Jonathan Bree - In The Sunshine
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07. Jonathan Bree - Meadows In Bloom
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08. Jonathan Bree - Cover Your Eyes
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09. Jonathan Bree - Children
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10. Jonathan Bree - 69
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11. Jonathan Bree - No Reminders
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12. Jonathan Bree - After The Curtains Close
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ARTIST
BREE, JONATHAN
TITLE
After The Curtains Close
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
LIL'' CHIEF RECORDS
CATALOG #
LCR 052LP
LCR 052LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
10/23/2020
LP version.
Jonathan Bree
's fourth album
After The Curtains Close
sees the producer's trademark orchestral pop take a few unexpected turns both into the experimental and into kitschy territory populated by some of his French heroes of the 1960s. The end result is an album that retains Bree's musical DNA while being fun and varied. What could be described as Bree's "sleazy" album could also be described as Bree's break-up album. Dealing with the break-down of a major relationship Bree opens up to reveal a year of loneliness and mental trauma while also channeling positive feelings by embracing sex and sleaze in his music, subject material more traditionally reserved for the single man. Bree strikes a great balance here between darkness and silliness and he does this without appearing snide, which is a line some artists can seem all too happy to cross. Bree's vocals are on display in a full range of styles, his baritone croon jumps octaves and everywhere in between across the 12 tracks and he is even present singing his own back-up vocals in child-like falsetto ("Heavenly Vision"). Opening track "Happy Daze" is a ray of heady sunshine and wall of strings celebrating worrying about nothing else while in a lover's arms. First single "Waiting on The Moment" has been accurately described as a celebratory break-up song, with cynical and slightly mean lyrics set to a grand and danceable '80s pop arrangement. Bree celebrates new romantic encounters with fun orchestral pop songs full of double entendres and his talent for writing for the female lead vocal has not been so obviously on display since his work with
The Brunettes
.
Britta Phillips
(
Luna
) takes lead vocal duties on "Meadows in Bloom", a tragic
Shangri-La's
inspired narrative about the pitfalls of sleeping with the drummer. "Until We're Done" is maybe the world's first "orchestral pop club banger" with sexualized modern chart-pop lyrics set to an arrangement that sounds like a strange psychedelic nightclub from a film noir horror. "Children" has Bree feeling obsolete and old at a night-club surrounded by the younger generation. Album highlight "In The Sunshine" has Bree sounding his most vulnerable yet on record, suspicious about a lovers reconciliation over a mid-tempo groove of '70s synths, Omnichords, and a haunting string arrangement. Album closer "After The Curtains Close" discusses the loneliness of an artist who has sacrificed love for the narcissism of a career, adored by sycophants. Also features
Princess Chelsea
and
Crystal Choi
.
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