Anaïs Mitchell - Brightness
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Track List: Brightness
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- Your Fonder Heart - Anais Mitchell
- Of A Friday Night - Anais Mitchell
- Namesake - Anais Mitchell
- Shenandoah - Anais Mitchell
- Changer - Anais Mitchell
- Song Of The Magi - Anais Mitchell
- Santa Fe Dream - Anais Mitchell
- Hobo's Lullaby - Anais Mitchell
- Old-Fashioned Hat - Anais Mitchell
- Hades & Persephone - Anais Mitchell
- Out Of Pawn - Anais Mitchell
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Album Details: Brightness
- Release Date:
- 02/13/2007
- Label:
- Righteous Babe
- UPC:
- 748731705329
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| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Anaïs Mitchell is a bundle of contradictions. She has the earthiness of Shawn Colvin, the childlike bite of Joanna Newsom, and the urban jumpiness of Ani DiFranco. Her lyrics are sprinkled with rosy similes ("you roll like the rolling waters/you rise like the bright morning stars") while they simultaneously touch on everything from politics ("Hobo's Lullaby") to literature ("Namesake," a reference to Mitchell's namesake, Anais Nin) to mythology ("Hades Persephone"). These elements, as disparate as they might seem, come together as nicely as cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, and from the sound of it Mitchell is poised to live up to her new record label, Righteous Babe, on The Brightness. This is a decidedly, ahem, brighter album than her previous effort, opening with a joyful summons ("Come out, come on, come outside"). The Brightness finds Mitchell with a newfound confidence. Not that she skirts pain or sadness on this outing; songs like "Of a Friday Night," a meditation on a departed poet, and "Shenandoah," a ballad about the loss of a friend, dip into isolation and loss. On Hymns for the Exiled, Mitchell might have approached these songs with a helping of selfconsciousness and timidity, but on The Brightness they're approached with a kind of sympathetic energy that lifts them nearly to the level of exaltation. This is, granted, incredibly earnest music, but it's hard to hold that against Mitchell given how well she writes, how honest she is, and how far she's come in such a short period of time. - Margaret Reges, All Music Guide |
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Anaïs Mitchell Biography
Heavily influenced by the confessional alternative folk stylings of Ani DiFranco, Anaïs Mitchell began writing songs when she was 17. Born in Vermont, she attended Middlebury College and traveled throughout the Middle East, Latin America, and Europe...Full Anaïs Mitchell Biography
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-- ©2008 All Media Guide, LLC
Pros: Some novel interpretive tales and twists to emotional attachment, sensitive feelings, and even controversial political issues
Cons: With similar tempos and melodies, Mitchell
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