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Less than a year after the release of his beautiful 3-track album, A Mermaid In Lisbon, Patrick Watson is back with Better In The Shade. This is another short record, with just seven tracks lasting 20 minutes, but since his debut some twenty years ago, the Canadian has got us all accustomed to his brevity. Besides, when his album stops playing, it’s followed by hours of wistful daydreaming which can still be considered the work of Patrick Watson. He’s nested his sound in bedroom folk, and it offers listeners a cosy cocoon high up above the world where it’s always peaceful. The first track on Better In The Shade is familiar territory: the high voice and tender songs caressed by string arrangements make you feel like you’re listening to a singer tightrope walk above a huge, blue void. He then abandons his trusty piano in favour of a synthesiser. But it’s not just any old synthesiser, it’s one that he made himself. Because of this it produces sounds you simply won’t hear anywhere else: a little muffled, a little undefined… like some kind of sonic apparition trapped somewhere in your ear canal. Every song on this album is drenched in mystery. On Blue, a micro-symphony in duet with singer Charlotte Loseh, Watson reaches a whole new level of serene melancholy, which is sustained in the following track (also in duet) La La La La La. As always, he oscillates between an acoustic folk sound and an almost galactic dreaminess, like a craftsman building his spaceship with little pieces of wood he’s gathered in the forest. © Stéphane Deschamps/Qobuz
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Patrick Watson, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Mixer, MainArtist - Mikhail Stein, Composer - Secret City Publishing Inc., MusicPublisher - Montana Martin-Iles, Mixer
2022 Watsonia Productions Inc. under exclusive license to Secret City Records Inc. 2022 Watsonia Productions Inc. under exclusive license to Secret City Records Inc.
Patrick Watson, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Mixer, MainArtist - Mikhail Stein, Composer - Andrew Barr, Composer - Ariel Engle, Lyricist - La Force, MainArtist - Secret City Publishing Inc., MusicPublisher - Montana Martin-Iles, Mixer
2022 Watsonia Productions Inc. under exclusive license to Secret City Records Inc. 2022 Watsonia Productions Inc. under exclusive license to Secret City Records Inc.
Patrick Watson, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Mixer, MainArtist - Secret City Publishing Inc., MusicPublisher - Montana Martin-Iles, Mixer
2022 Watsonia Productions Inc. under exclusive license to Secret City Records Inc. 2022 Watsonia Productions Inc. under exclusive license to Secret City Records Inc.
Patrick Watson, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Mixer, MainArtist - Mikhail Stein, Composer - Andrew Barr, Composer - Secret City Publishing Inc., MusicPublisher - Montana Martin-Iles, Mixer
2022 Watsonia Productions Inc. under exclusive license to Secret City Records Inc. 2022 Watsonia Productions Inc. under exclusive license to Secret City Records Inc.
Patrick Watson, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Mixer, MainArtist - Mikhail Stein, Composer - Andrew Barr, Composer - Ariel Engle, Lyricist - Secret City Publishing Inc., MusicPublisher - Montana Martin-Iles, Mixer
2022 Watsonia Productions Inc. under exclusive license to Secret City Records Inc. 2022 Watsonia Productions Inc. under exclusive license to Secret City Records Inc.
Patrick Watson, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Mixer, MainArtist - Mikhail Stein, Composer - Andrew Barr, Composer - Ariel Engle, Lyricist - La Force, MainArtist - Secret City Publishing Inc., MusicPublisher - Montana Martin-Iles, Mixer
2022 Watsonia Productions Inc. under exclusive license to Secret City Records Inc. 2022 Watsonia Productions Inc. under exclusive license to Secret City Records Inc.
Patrick Watson, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Mixer, MainArtist - Mikhail Stein, Composer - Sea Oleena, MainArtist - Secret City Publishing Inc., MusicPublisher - Sam Woywitka, Composer - Montana Martin-Iles, Mixer
2022 Watsonia Productions Inc. under exclusive license to Secret City Records Inc. 2022 Watsonia Productions Inc. under exclusive license to Secret City Records Inc.
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Less than a year after the release of his beautiful 3-track album, A Mermaid In Lisbon, Patrick Watson is back with Better In The Shade. This is another short record, with just seven tracks lasting 20 minutes, but since his debut some twenty years ago, the Canadian has got us all accustomed to his brevity. Besides, when his album stops playing, it’s followed by hours of wistful daydreaming which can still be considered the work of Patrick Watson. He’s nested his sound in bedroom folk, and it offers listeners a cosy cocoon high up above the world where it’s always peaceful. The first track on Better In The Shade is familiar territory: the high voice and tender songs caressed by string arrangements make you feel like you’re listening to a singer tightrope walk above a huge, blue void. He then abandons his trusty piano in favour of a synthesiser. But it’s not just any old synthesiser, it’s one that he made himself. Because of this it produces sounds you simply won’t hear anywhere else: a little muffled, a little undefined… like some kind of sonic apparition trapped somewhere in your ear canal. Every song on this album is drenched in mystery. On Blue, a micro-symphony in duet with singer Charlotte Loseh, Watson reaches a whole new level of serene melancholy, which is sustained in the following track (also in duet) La La La La La. As always, he oscillates between an acoustic folk sound and an almost galactic dreaminess, like a craftsman building his spaceship with little pieces of wood he’s gathered in the forest. © Stéphane Deschamps/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 7 track(s)
- Total length: 00:21:41
- Main artists: Patrick Watson
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Secret City Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative & Indie
2022 Watsonia Productions Inc. under exclusive license to Secret City Records Inc. 2022 Watsonia Productions Inc. under exclusive license to Secret City Records Inc.
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