Product Description After a couple of highly successful albums that Jeffrey Foucault did not really consider his own (the "Cold Satellite" project, "Shoot The Moon Right Between The Eyes" with John Prine songs and "Seven Curses", a collaboration with Mark Erelli presenting a collection of murder ballads) he now returns with his first studio album in 5 years. Longtime disciple of the rich and strange music that sings behind the American veil, Jeffrey Foucault has spent the last decade mining the darker seams of country and blues, producing a string of spare and elemental albums of rare power while garnering accolades across the United States and overseas for a tersely elegant brand of songwriting set apart by its haunting imagery and weather-beaten cool. He lives in Western Massachusetts. The new album Horse Latitudes features Eric Heywood (Pretenders, Ray Lamontagne) on pedal steel and electric guitars, Jennifer Condos (Ray Lamontagne, Sam Phillips) on electric bass, Billy Conway (Morphine, Twinemen) on drums, and Van Dyke Parks (Ry Cooder, Lowell George, Brian Wilson) on keys.
B**T
Singing like the spark on a mile of coiled wire
Although far from a household name, Jeffrey Foucault has released seven albums of fine music across a ten-year recording career, plus two collaborative albums of stripped-down material under the Redbird moniker. All of them showcase a brand of melancholic folky Americana, with sparse, mainly accoustic instrumentation and sharp lyrics, and Horse Latitudes is no exception.Typical of Foucault's style is the lovely 'Starlight And Static', in which he sings of seeing someone 'singing like the spark on a mile of coiled wire', or the equally spare and beautiful 'Goner's Most' in which he talks of 'making love with the volume down in the blue light falling from an LED'. When he turns the volume up, as in 'Everybody's Famous', the deft poeticism remains; 'everybody's broken heart is shining like a new TV, on the walls of a dark room where the world used to be'. While many of the songs on Horse Latitudes have a mournful edge, Foucault's lovely warm and expressive voice softly caresses each of them into life. There is an honesty and simplicity which underlies much of the material here, most obviously illustrated on the final track, the almost lullaby-like 'Tea And Tobacco'. But there is a darkness and a loneliness here too, 'Worn out and wondering, traveling unraveling, wearing out my heart, in little towns'. For those not yet seduced by Jeffrey Foucault's quiet and unassuming style, Horse Latitudes is as strong and varied a set of material as he has produced. As Matt Dellinger says on the CD sleeve, Foucault's songwriting is simple and true, and you get the sense that he is in it for the long haul.
T**R
Needs a few more listens
Not as good as Miles from the Lighthouse or Stripping Cane, but then it always takes me a little while to really start appreciating his stuff.
E**C
Five Stars
My partner think this is really good, I have not listene to it yet
A**R
Excellent.
Absolute classic. Work of genius.
I**N
King of Americana
New record from Jeffrey Foucault and new slant to his music, after 3 records which were either collaberations,(with Mark Erelli) tributes (Shoot the Moon) or band records (Cold Satellite) we have a solo project. I seem to notice a darker side to his sound this time, his vocals are of the highest standard as always, but this is not a easy record ot get into not a instant hit but as with all of his albums it just grows and grows. Best Album since "Ghost Repeater" and up there in places. So for the standout tracks, for me it's the title track,Last Night I Dreamed of Television and Starlight and Static but on the whole a well balanced record with no tracks to skip.
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