Tracy Bonham - Masts Of Manhatta

Catalogue No:

ERR021

Label:

Engine Room Recordings

Release Date:

20/08/10

Format:

CD

Track Listing

1. Devil’s Got Your Boyfriend
2. Your Sight Is Wide Open
3. Big Red Heart
4. Josephine
5. When You Laugh The World Laughs With You
6. We Moved Our City To The Country
7. Reciprocal Feelings
8. In the Moonlight
9. You’re My Is-ness
10. Angel, Won’t You Come Down?
11. I Love You Today

Info

‘Masts of Manhatta’ is Tracy Bonham’s best and most personal record to date, and reflects the singer’s peripatetic lifestyle, moving between tango-influenced rhythms, Tom Waits-inspired Klezmer folkpunk and pastoral country with multiple pit stops in between.

Produced by Tchad Blake (Elvis Costello, Bernard Fanning) and featuring Smokey Hormel (Beck, Johnny Cash). Romance, love and heartache make their appearance, but where Bonham’s early vocal efforts displayed a rebellious snarl, the singer nowadays takes a softer, if no less direct, approach.

On her 1996 debut ‘The Burdens of Being Upright’, Bonham established herself as a brash rocker. With blunt, direct observations on love and loss, the album went gold and earned the multiple singer. Grammy nominations, also yielding the worldwide hit single “Mother Mother”.

“A pastoral, jazzy pulse… full of crafty details… Bonham has definitely hit her groove” – ROLLING STONE

“A brilliant blend of contrasting emotional pulls” – THE INDEPENDENT