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Handsome Family
Twilight
Genres: Country, Alternative Rock

Track Listings (13) - Disc #1
1. Snow White Diner
2. Passenger Pigeons
3. A Dark Eye
4. There Is a Sound
5. All the TVs in Town
6. Gravity
7. Cold, Cold, Cold
8. No One Fell Asleep Alone
9. I Know You Are There
10. Birds You Cannot See
11. The White Dog
12. So Long
13. Peace in the Valley Once Again

CD Details

All Artists: Handsome Family
Title: Twilight
Members Wishing: 4
Total Copies: 0
Release Date: 9/25/2001
Genres: Country, Alternative Rock
Styles: Americana, Indie & Lo-Fi
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1

Synopsis

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Set in a shadowy netherworld, Twilight reasserts the Handsome Family's position as modern-day descendants of the ancient country-folk surrealists gathered on Harry Smith's celebrated Anthology of American Folk Music. Rennie Sparks's songs are filled with animals ("Birds You Cannot See" and "White Dog") and natural images that are both carefree ("Peace in the Valley Once Again") and unnerving ("Snow White Diner"). The lyrics masterfully blend compassionate insight and a real sense of drama and tragedy with an eye for detail and humorous asides. Brett's vocal croon and his background in both experimental avant-garde and Texas rockabilly insures that the duo's music continues to grow far beyond its country roots. The Handsome Family happily flout convention but their stark beauty still shines through--these are some of the strangest and most compelling songs in the warped but wonderful world of alternative country. --Gavin Martin

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CD Reviews

Jawdropping Beautiful Record

P. Rosenzweig | Los Angeles, CA | 10/05/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Handsome Family has succeeded again in improving on their enchanted craft. Rennie Sparks pens gorgeous poems filled with characters and situations as real and lonely as I've ever known. Husband Brett Sparks sings them with a warm, deep, baritone voice that would make George Jones blush. The beautiful irony of this warm/cold complement lingers with me long, long after each listen. The instrumentation on this record is spare and (again) warm, with precious little departure from their past triumphs. I suppose these words could be said of truly ANY Handsome Family record. As one who's familiar with them all I can say, with total astonishment, that this is a new height."

The hits just keep on comming!

andrew johnstone | Morrinsville, New Zealand | 06/12/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Brett and Rennie understand that darkness dosen't need to be all dark, nor strangeness wierd. These tunefull songs are clever, funny, and catchy, all the while hinting at the mysteries that lurk behind the ordinariness of day to day existance. Nothing like it. This is our third Handsome Family album, we love them all, glorying in the eccentricity. Besides, my wife goes all weak at the knees under the power of Brett's awesome baritone."

The Sadness Is Deliscous

Gregor | New Albion | 07/11/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Simple,stark,sad and lonesome...that's the feel all the way through. Death, despair and darkness...made so real it hurts and gives pleasure at the same time."