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The Ballad Of Peter J. And Other Songs

by We Are The Wooden Houses

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The Ballad Of Peter J. 03:40
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Thanksgiving And Five Red Apples 04:40
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13th Apostle - Part I 03:26
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13th Apostle - Part II 10:55
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Ludmilla (Feel So Sad) 03:11
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Zaire's Sister 05:26
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Ghost Head 04:08
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Don't Look Now/Lost Cosmonaut 12:47
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Twilight, druggy downer folk and drone. Made at home.

"A gentle acoustic strum breaks through the silence, a call for honesty and understanding in the midst of a relationship's dying embers or its bright new flame, which we can't be sure, hope and doubt pull us one way, then the other.

Ambiguity, beauty, and space create a world set apart at the beginning of the third We are the Wooden Houses album the 'Ballad of Peter J and Other Songs'. As we meander through the albums eight songs this world is maintained and nurtured, as we join characters cast adrift, whether it be the '13th Apostle' looking for "A new town or new day", or the protagonist in 'Zaire's Sister' running from "The Warsaw Pact on his tail". These are songs moving away from controlling shadows and searching for some meaning in the physical and spiritual world. What that meaning is we don't know.

Musically, the DNA of the first two Wooden Houses releases can be felt strongly, plucked strings, hypnotic drones, moments of quiet alchemy, yet added to this are traditional song structures closer to folk and country, sung with gentle grace. In 'Ludmilla (feel so sad)' the line "Floating right above your heart, and I feel so sad" is devastating, as we are reminded of the loneliness of space and our internal struggles with the world that holds us from it. In 'Don't look Now/Lost Cosmonaut' the album's final track, our characters are finally cut adrift in twelve minutes of soft piano, violin, lapping water, industrial interference, samples, and drone, the structure of their old world is gone now, they are floating in the great cosmos with 'Ludmilla' hoping to find somewhere new." - Marc Gillen.

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released February 1, 2011

Stephen Benson : Acoustic & Electric Guitar, 12 String, Bass, Violin, Drums, Xylophone, Percussion, Harmonica, Flute, Banjo, Ukelele & Vocal.

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Marc Gillen : Additional Drums on '13th Apostle - Part II'
Alastair Popple : Additional drones, programming & Electronics.

Produced by Stephen Benson & Alastair Popple.

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