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Since New West released Photographs in 2011, Robert Ellis' reputation has spread internationally. These days he plays European festivals as well as Texas honky tonks. He moved to Nashville from Houston in 2012. Given the growth in his songwriting on The Lights from the Chemical Plant, it was the right choice. The album is exquisitely produced and mixed by Jacquire King; it's refined, not slick. He illustrates Ellis' elusive, emotionally evocative songs, expanding their sonic reach to blur genre boundaries. Though he and Ellis embrace the sounds of Nashville's and Americana's pasts, they look forward, making use of rock and pop wherever it makes sense. "TV Song" may be a novelty tune, but it recalls the savvy of Roger Miller and Tom T. Hall. "Chemical Plant" narrates a story of young lovers who cling together as life changes around them and years pass; but there is no escaping death. Electric guitars, tom-toms, and strings elevate the song to near cinematic proportions, but never indulges them. The melody in "Steady as the Rising Sun" suggests Harlan Howard. A tender, almost melancholy love song, the rhythm section's syncopated backbeat on the coda introduces a whining pedal steel, sweeping strings and a backing chorus by Dawes' Goldsmith Brothers. "Bottle of Wine" paraphrases Billy Joel's "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant." Fueled by a reverbed, slightly out of tune piano, the protagonist sings to an absent other in an empty room, accompanied only by a beverage and a bag of cocaine. Paul Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years" is poignantly and darkly rendered with a killer guitar break. "Pride," "Only Lies," and "Houston" (the last with a knotty, screaming, extended prog rock outro!) make use of country and blues in the same way Danny O'Keefe did on his first two albums, tangentially; they are integral parts of a larger musical palette. (Ellis' voice also bears a spooky resemblance to O'Keefe's.) Narratively, these songs paint haunted silhouettes of emptiness, loneliness and desolation. "Tour Song," the sparse acoustic closer, features a traveling musician as its protagonist. He confesses paranoia and fear, speculating about possible infidelity from his wife while he's away. He's ultimately resigned to it as the cost of his chosen profession, but deals with it by way of nightly oblivion. The Lights from the Chemical Plant is an inspired, mercurial record, by an artist who cares deeply for tradition, but refuses to be bound by it.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
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ROBERT ELLIS, Composer, MainArtist - New West Records, LLC, MusicPublisher
2013 New West Records, LLC 2013 New West Records, LLC
ROBERT ELLIS, Composer, MainArtist - New West Records, LLC, MusicPublisher
2013 New West Records, LLC 2013 New West Records, LLC
ROBERT ELLIS, Composer, MainArtist - New West Records, LLC, MusicPublisher
2013 New West Records, LLC 2013 New West Records, LLC
ROBERT ELLIS, Composer, MainArtist - New West Records, LLC, MusicPublisher
2013 New West Records, LLC 2013 New West Records, LLC
ROBERT ELLIS, Composer, MainArtist - New West Records, LLC, MusicPublisher
2013 New West Records, LLC 2013 New West Records, LLC
ROBERT ELLIS, Composer, MainArtist - New West Records, LLC, MusicPublisher
2013 New West Records, LLC 2013 New West Records, LLC
ROBERT ELLIS, Composer, MainArtist - New West Records, LLC, MusicPublisher
2013 New West Records, LLC 2013 New West Records, LLC
ROBERT ELLIS, Composer, MainArtist - New West Records, LLC, MusicPublisher
2013 New West Records, LLC 2013 New West Records, LLC
ROBERT ELLIS, Composer, MainArtist - New West Records, LLC, MusicPublisher
2013 New West Records, LLC 2013 New West Records, LLC
ROBERT ELLIS, Composer, MainArtist - New West Records, LLC, MusicPublisher
2013 New West Records, LLC 2013 New West Records, LLC
ROBERT ELLIS, Composer, MainArtist - New West Records, LLC, MusicPublisher
2013 New West Records, LLC 2013 New West Records, LLC
ROBERT ELLIS, Composer, MainArtist - New West Records, LLC, MusicPublisher
2013 New West Records, LLC 2015 New West Records, LLC
ROBERT ELLIS, Composer, MainArtist - New West Records, LLC, MusicPublisher
2013 New West Records, LLC 2015 New West Records, LLC
ROBERT ELLIS, Composer, MainArtist - New West Records, LLC, MusicPublisher
2013 New West Records, LLC 2015 New West Records, LLC
ROBERT ELLIS, Composer, MainArtist - New West Records, LLC, MusicPublisher
2013 New West Records, LLC 2015 New West Records, LLC
ROBERT ELLIS, Composer, MainArtist - New West Records, LLC, MusicPublisher
2013 New West Records, LLC 2015 New West Records, LLC
ROBERT ELLIS, Composer, MainArtist - New West Records, LLC, MusicPublisher
2013 New West Records, LLC 2015 New West Records, LLC
ROBERT ELLIS, Composer, MainArtist - New West Records, LLC, MusicPublisher
2013 New West Records, LLC 2015 New West Records, LLC
Approfondimenti
Since New West released Photographs in 2011, Robert Ellis' reputation has spread internationally. These days he plays European festivals as well as Texas honky tonks. He moved to Nashville from Houston in 2012. Given the growth in his songwriting on The Lights from the Chemical Plant, it was the right choice. The album is exquisitely produced and mixed by Jacquire King; it's refined, not slick. He illustrates Ellis' elusive, emotionally evocative songs, expanding their sonic reach to blur genre boundaries. Though he and Ellis embrace the sounds of Nashville's and Americana's pasts, they look forward, making use of rock and pop wherever it makes sense. "TV Song" may be a novelty tune, but it recalls the savvy of Roger Miller and Tom T. Hall. "Chemical Plant" narrates a story of young lovers who cling together as life changes around them and years pass; but there is no escaping death. Electric guitars, tom-toms, and strings elevate the song to near cinematic proportions, but never indulges them. The melody in "Steady as the Rising Sun" suggests Harlan Howard. A tender, almost melancholy love song, the rhythm section's syncopated backbeat on the coda introduces a whining pedal steel, sweeping strings and a backing chorus by Dawes' Goldsmith Brothers. "Bottle of Wine" paraphrases Billy Joel's "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant." Fueled by a reverbed, slightly out of tune piano, the protagonist sings to an absent other in an empty room, accompanied only by a beverage and a bag of cocaine. Paul Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years" is poignantly and darkly rendered with a killer guitar break. "Pride," "Only Lies," and "Houston" (the last with a knotty, screaming, extended prog rock outro!) make use of country and blues in the same way Danny O'Keefe did on his first two albums, tangentially; they are integral parts of a larger musical palette. (Ellis' voice also bears a spooky resemblance to O'Keefe's.) Narratively, these songs paint haunted silhouettes of emptiness, loneliness and desolation. "Tour Song," the sparse acoustic closer, features a traveling musician as its protagonist. He confesses paranoia and fear, speculating about possible infidelity from his wife while he's away. He's ultimately resigned to it as the cost of his chosen profession, but deals with it by way of nightly oblivion. The Lights from the Chemical Plant is an inspired, mercurial record, by an artist who cares deeply for tradition, but refuses to be bound by it.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
A proposito dell'album
- 1 disco(i) - 18 traccia(e)
- Durata totale: 01:31:43
- Artisti principali: Robert Ellis
- Compositore: Robert Ellis
- Etichetta: New West Records
- Genere: Blues/Country/Folk Folk
2013 New West Records, LLC 2013 New West Records, LLC
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