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I just got into her and within a few days realized I needed to hear everything she's done. Does anyone know if she's going to be in nyc anytime soon, if she's even touring?

― vic isthmus (isthmus), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

i like her, but she's definitely best experienced live.

other shannon wright threads here and here.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Interesting coinicidence, I just aquired a copy of Over the Sun the other day. First time I've heard anything by her, but I do like it.

― paid in cigarettes (paid in cigarettes), Thursday, 17 August 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

To anyone interested in Shannon Wright and hasn't heard her cover of The Bee Gees' "I Started A Joke" from the chickfactor compilation, do search it immediately!

― blood bitch (blood bitch), Thursday, 17 August 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

Try the song "Method of Sleeping." Beautiful.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Friday, 18 August 2006 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

Her gloom and rage can be nearly inpenetrable, but she's pretty good. The last two albums especially, although I find Over The Sun a bit too monolithic and bleak (AMG totally off the mark in saying it has an "autumnal atmosphere".) Her collaboration with Yann Tiersen yielded some good tracks too.

It does seems like she has sort of vanished in the past two years. I bet she'd gain a whole bunch of fans opening for Fiona Apple though.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 18 August 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

fuck i drunkenly clicked here and thought this was about shannon knoll and then i remembered shannon knolls name is shannon knoll not shannon wright.

and hes A GUY. alpurpose name then.

― alicer (alicereed), Friday, 18 August 2006 06:52 (nineteen years ago)

thanks people for all the info.

Shannon knoll's record is pretty damn good too.

re her "gloom and rage" being impenetrable ... I find parts of Flightsafety meditative, softer. Certainly "Maps of Tacit" can be a raw listening experience, but for me, not impenetrable ... I feel invited in by her emotional outpourings. Her lyrics can be a bit inscrutable, but always delivered with feeling, and in an impressionistic way, many of them make sense and contribute to the mood.

I have maps of tacit and flightsafety... can anyone recommend the next record to try?

Actually yeah, fiona would be good for her to open up with. maybe too obvious though.. maybe she should try something like new pornos just for the contrast factor.

― vic isthmus (isthmus), Saturday, 19 August 2006 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't hold your breath for a tour, I don't think she is supposed to be doing anything very soon. Saw her in january 2005 and I would guess that might have been the last time she played out. But yeah you are missing out on the full experience unfortunately.

I own just about everything she has released and I have never listened to Over The Sun all the way through. It isn't bad, I just can't handle that much of... whatever it is, in one sitting. It does its job a little too well. I don't find it impenetrable, but maybe too penetrable for me personally?

For the next album go for Dyed in the Wool? YMMV but I usually recommend them in chronological order because they progress in intensity and direction. DITW has interesting varied texture too. If you can find any, search some live recordings, some of the live versions defeat the studio tracks pretty brutally.

also a lovely person, despite what some might pick up from the tone of the music.

(I never got the Fiona Apple comparision but then I'm not partial to her stuff really)

― Flossie McGraw (Flossie McGraw), Saturday, 19 August 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

"Black Little Stray" is devastating and brilliant.

The Crowsdell albums are a little too edge-less indie-pop for me. Need more fuzz.

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 19 August 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

Crowsdell S/D
search: Floridian Lamb, Trunk, Sad Eyes, You Want Me Dead
destroy: Popsick (destroy again for good measure)

― Flossie McGraw (Flossie McGraw), Saturday, 19 August 2006 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

I find her impenetrable due to the fact that her records often paint a person with no possibility of hope. You're up against this consistent, relentless wall of gloom with no chance of redemption or resolution.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 19 August 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

re: impenetrability of shannonwright

It's funny, her records to me are uplifting, they get my blood racing, and I feel like I'm hearing an artist exploring pain in a struggling against/fighting-with way, looking for the "redemption"/"resolution". When I think of impenetrable bleakness, I think of early Swans records for instance -- the dark is so thick you feel oppressed.

But all of us have different thresholds for and responses to these sorts of things.

I heard the crowsdell stuff was sorta tame. Heard malkmus produced one of the records.

ordered dyed in the wool, thanks flossie

waiting for a tour...
-v

― vic isthmus (isthmus), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

seventeen years pass...

where has she gone?

― mookieproof, Friday, 22 March 2024 06:32 (one year ago)

She put out a good piano-based album in 2019. Don’t know since then.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 22 March 2024 13:16 (one year ago)

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