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Twilight
Handsome Family
Twilight
Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock
 
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Welcome to a half-lit world of golden street lights, haunted parking lots, & invisible birds. In part, a farewell to Chicago where The Handsome Family lived for the previous twelve years. Recalls the near-darkness of n...  more »

     
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All Artists: Handsome Family
Title: Twilight
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Carrot Top Records
Release Date: 10/2/2001
Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock
Styles: Americana, Indie & Lo-Fi, Contemporary Folk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 789397002728

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Welcome to a half-lit world of golden street lights, haunted parking lots, & invisible birds. In part, a farewell to Chicago where The Handsome Family lived for the previous twelve years. Recalls the near-darkness of night in the city where the flickering TVs & traffic lights hide the sky above. They write some of the most gripping songs in recent memory, with Rennie supplying the hypnotic lyrics and Brett the slightly quirky, classic country music. You hear guitar, banjo, piano, musical saw, accordion, Autoharp, and melodica as well as a mismatched array of mostly live cymbals and drums. Most combine beautiful, almost lilting melodies with lyrics that often paint modern fairy tales full of fright, despair, death, & alienation. While their trademarks are still intact, there is actually a glimmer of light in the darkness this time around. Perhaps the saddest song ever written, "Passenger Pigeons," is now offset by songs with small rays of hope & happy nostalgia

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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."