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Indigo Girls' eighth studio album, released 15 years after their first, finds the duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers in a sense starting over. Using their regular backup band of keyboardist Carol Isaacs, bassist Claire Kenny, and drummer Brady Blade, but only a couple of guest musicians -- in contrast to albums that featured lots more players, many of them well known -- and returning to producer Peter Collins, who worked with them on their second, fourth, and fifth albums, they have stripped down their approach to something approaching the folk-rock style with which they began. The restrained instrumentation and arrangements focus attention on the songs themselves, and Ray and Saliers, as usual writing separately and alternating tracks, have similar things to say. Eleven of the 12 songs are addressed by an "I" to a "you" (the exception, "She's Saving Me," might as well be), and for the most part they deal in romantic complications, with the "I" looking back on a past romance or detailing the difficulties that may lead to a breakup. In the opening track and first single, Ray's "Moment of Forgiveness," for example, the narrator notes that two years have gone by since her lover left and asks, hopelessly, "When are you gonna come home?" Ray is characteristically more raw in her singing and in her expression; she also provides the album's musical contrasts, whether it's the "Games People Play"-style Southern soul of "Moment of Forgiveness" or the Mexican tone of "Nuevas Senoritas." Saliers is more abstract, titling one of her laments "Deconstruction" and, in "She's Saving Me," even offers a more positive statement. But it is Ray's title track, in which a daughter of the South confronts the region's reprehensible mythology -- not a song of romance -- that is the album's most wrenching and powerful statement.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Amy Ray, Composer - Amy Ray, Guitar - Amy Ray, Lyricist - Amy Ray, Vocal - Bob Clearmountain, Mixing Engineer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer - Brady Blade, Drums - Carol Isaacs, Keyboards - Clare Kenny, Bass - Emily Saliers, Guitar - Emily Saliers, Vocal - Glenn Matullo, Engineer - Indigo Girls, Performer - John Holmes, 2nd Engineer - Kevin Harp, Mixing Engineer - Michelle Malone, Background Vocal - Peter Collins, Producer - Robert Hannon, 2nd Engineer
(P) 2002 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Amy Ray, Guitar - Amy Ray, Vocal - Bob Clearmountain, Mixing Engineer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer - Brady Blade, Drums - Carol Isaacs, Keyboards - Clare Kenny, Bass - Emily Saliers, Composer - Emily Saliers, Guitar - Emily Saliers, Lyricist - Emily Saliers, Vocal - Glenn Matullo, Engineer - Indigo Girls, Performer - John Holmes, 2nd Engineer - Kevin Harp, Mixing Engineer - Peter Collins, Producer - Robert Hannon, 2nd Engineer
(P) 2002 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Amy Ray, Composer - Amy Ray, Guitar - Amy Ray, Lyricist - Amy Ray, Vocal - Bob Clearmountain, Mixing Engineer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer - Brady Blade, Drums - Carol Isaacs, Keyboards - Clare Kenny, Bass - Emily Saliers, Guitar - Emily Saliers, Vocal - Glenn Matullo, Engineer - Indigo Girls, Performer - John Holmes, 2nd Engineer - Kevin Harp, Mixing Engineer - Peter Collins, Producer - Robert Hannon, 2nd Engineer
(P) 2002 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Amy Ray, Guitar - Amy Ray, Vocal - Bob Clearmountain, Mixing Engineer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer - Brady Blade, Drums - Carol Isaacs, Keyboards - Clare Kenny, Bass - Dan Higgins, Saxophone - Emily Saliers, Composer - Emily Saliers, Guitar - Emily Saliers, Lyricist - Emily Saliers, Vocal - Glenn Matullo, Engineer - Indigo Girls, Performer - Jerry Hey, Arranger - John Holmes, 2nd Engineer - Kevin Harp, Mixing Engineer - Peter Collins, Producer - Robert Hannon, 2nd Engineer
(P) 2002 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Amy Ray, Composer - Amy Ray, Guitar - Amy Ray, Lyricist - Amy Ray, Vocal - Bob Clearmountain, Mixing Engineer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer - Brady Blade, Drums - Carol Isaacs, Keyboards - Clare Kenny, Bass - Emily Saliers, Guitar - Emily Saliers, Vocal - Glenn Matullo, Engineer - Indigo Girls, Performer - John Holmes, 2nd Engineer - Kevin Harp, Mixing Engineer - Peter Collins, Producer - Robert Hannon, 2nd Engineer
(P) 2002 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Amy Ray, Guitar - Amy Ray, Vocal - Bob Clearmountain, Mixing Engineer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer - Brady Blade, Drums - Carol Isaacs, Keyboards - Clare Kenny, Bass - Emily Saliers, Composer - Emily Saliers, Guitar - Emily Saliers, Lyricist - Emily Saliers, Vocal - Glenn Matullo, Engineer - Indigo Girls, Performer - John Holmes, 2nd Engineer - Kevin Harp, Mixing Engineer - Peter Collins, Producer - Robert Hannon, 2nd Engineer
(P) 2002 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Amy Ray, Guitar - Amy Ray, Vocal - Annie Roboff, Composer - Annie Roboff, Lyricist - Bob Clearmountain, Mixing Engineer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer - Brady Blade, Drums - Carol Isaacs, Keyboards - Clare Kenny, Bass - Emily Saliers, Composer - Emily Saliers, Guitar - Emily Saliers, Lyricist - Emily Saliers, Vocal - Glenn Matullo, Engineer - Indigo Girls, Performer - John Holmes, 2nd Engineer - Kevin Harp, Mixing Engineer - Michelle Malone, Background Vocal - Peter Collins, Producer - Robert Hannon, 2nd Engineer
(P) 2002 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Amy Ray, Composer - Amy Ray, Guitar - Amy Ray, Lyricist - Amy Ray, Vocal - Bob Clearmountain, Mixing Engineer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer - Brady Blade, Drums - Carol Isaacs, Keyboards - Clare Kenny, Bass - Emily Saliers, Guitar - Emily Saliers, Vocal - Glenn Matullo, Engineer - Indigo Girls, Performer - John Holmes, 2nd Engineer - Kevin Harp, Mixing Engineer - Michelle Malone, Background Vocal - Michelle Malone, Harmonica - Peter Collins, Producer - Robert Hannon, 2nd Engineer
(P) 2002 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Amy Ray, Guitar - Amy Ray, Vocal - Bob Clearmountain, Mixing Engineer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer - Brady Blade, Drums - Carol Isaacs, Keyboards - Clare Kenny, Bass - Emily Saliers, Composer - Emily Saliers, Guitar - Emily Saliers, Lyricist - Emily Saliers, Vocal - Glenn Matullo, Engineer - Indigo Girls, Performer - John Holmes, 2nd Engineer - Kevin Harp, Mixing Engineer - Peter Collins, Producer - Robert Hannon, 2nd Engineer
(P) 2002 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Amy Ray, Composer - Amy Ray, Guitar - Amy Ray, Lyricist - Amy Ray, Vocal - Bob Clearmountain, Mixing Engineer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer - Brady Blade, Drums - Carol Isaacs, Keyboards - Clare Kenny, Bass - Emily Saliers, Guitar - Emily Saliers, Vocal - Glenn Matullo, Engineer - Indigo Girls, Performer - John Holmes, 2nd Engineer - Kevin Harp, Mixing Engineer - Peter Collins, Producer - Robert Hannon, 2nd Engineer
(P) 2002 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Amy Ray, Guitar - Amy Ray, Vocal - Bob Clearmountain, Mixing Engineer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer - Brady Blade, Drums - Carol Isaacs, Keyboards - Clare Kenny, Bass - Emily Saliers, Composer - Emily Saliers, Guitar - Emily Saliers, Lyricist - Emily Saliers, Vocal - Glenn Matullo, Engineer - Indigo Girls, Performer - John Holmes, 2nd Engineer - Kevin Harp, Mixing Engineer - Peter Collins, Producer - Robert Hannon, 2nd Engineer
(P) 2002 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Amy Ray, Composer - Amy Ray, Guitar - Amy Ray, Lyricist - Amy Ray, Vocal - Bob Clearmountain, Mixing Engineer - Bob Ludwig, Mastering Engineer - Brady Blade, Drums - Carol Isaacs, Keyboards - Clare Kenny, Bass - Emily Saliers, Guitar - Emily Saliers, Vocal - Glenn Matullo, Engineer - Indigo Girls, Performer - John Holmes, 2nd Engineer - Kevin Harp, Mixing Engineer - Peter Collins, Producer - Robert Hannon, 2nd Engineer
(P) 2002 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Album review
Indigo Girls' eighth studio album, released 15 years after their first, finds the duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers in a sense starting over. Using their regular backup band of keyboardist Carol Isaacs, bassist Claire Kenny, and drummer Brady Blade, but only a couple of guest musicians -- in contrast to albums that featured lots more players, many of them well known -- and returning to producer Peter Collins, who worked with them on their second, fourth, and fifth albums, they have stripped down their approach to something approaching the folk-rock style with which they began. The restrained instrumentation and arrangements focus attention on the songs themselves, and Ray and Saliers, as usual writing separately and alternating tracks, have similar things to say. Eleven of the 12 songs are addressed by an "I" to a "you" (the exception, "She's Saving Me," might as well be), and for the most part they deal in romantic complications, with the "I" looking back on a past romance or detailing the difficulties that may lead to a breakup. In the opening track and first single, Ray's "Moment of Forgiveness," for example, the narrator notes that two years have gone by since her lover left and asks, hopelessly, "When are you gonna come home?" Ray is characteristically more raw in her singing and in her expression; she also provides the album's musical contrasts, whether it's the "Games People Play"-style Southern soul of "Moment of Forgiveness" or the Mexican tone of "Nuevas Senoritas." Saliers is more abstract, titling one of her laments "Deconstruction" and, in "She's Saving Me," even offers a more positive statement. But it is Ray's title track, in which a daughter of the South confronts the region's reprehensible mythology -- not a song of romance -- that is the album's most wrenching and powerful statement.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:47:46
- Main artists: Indigo Girls
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Epic
- Genre: Pop/Rock
(P) 2002 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
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