ARTIST.....: 100 Mile House TITLE......: Love and Leave You LABEL......: Fallen Tree Records GENRE......: Folk RIP DATE...: 2020-04-01 RETAIL DATE: 2020-03-27 RUNTIME....: 41:18 SIZE.......: 96,89 MB QUALITY....: 320Kbps 44.1kHz ENCODER/CODEC: LAME - MP3 (MPEG-2 AUDIO LAYER 3) URL........: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/100_mile_house_Love_and_Leave_You?id=Buh4qetn4lhvol265zlwlyohj5u Track List: 01. River 2:12 02. Love And Leave You 3:51 03. Test The Timber 3:59 04. Grateful 3:46 05. Worth The Wait 3:36 06. Light Goes Out 5:18 07. Losing You 3:02 08. Run 4:14 09. Like Each Day 6:00 10. Lucky To Be Loved 3:00 11. Good Old Days 2:20 Release Notes: Love And Leave You is the newest album from Edmonton based band, 100 Mile House. 100 Mile House is headed by the married couple, Peter Stone and Denise McKay, who have been together and playing music with each other for almost two decades. Love and Leave You has an inviting warmth that makes you feel as if youÆre sitting in front of 100 Mile HouseÆs hearth while they play music for you. Using primarily male lead vocals and female backing, the album makes sparse but effective, use of the violin, classic guitar, piano, and cello. There is also a distinct lack of any percussion instruments on the album, similar to the works of Simon and Garfunkel. This is as by design by 100 Mile House who says the intent was to use backing instrumentals sparingly to ôforce the songwriting and lyrics to the forefront.ö As for the lyrics, they feature a noticeable amount of domestic imagery to bring you into the 100 Mile HouseÆs home such as dogs, kettles, perfume, tables, cats, bridal gowns, six-string guitars. Once youÆre in their home, though, 100 Mile House pulls you into an intimate portrait of their family life. However, whatever struggle a track presents, each song also stresses the endurance their love (and music) gives them. The impression æLove and Leave YouÆ is that this is a family that can and will endure any storm. Standout tracks to me were ôLosing Youö and ôLucky to be Lovedö. ôLosing Youö has a relatively upbeat backing, but with profound sadness to it. The song even starts with the heartbreaking lyrics: ôwe sleep alone, but side by side.ö As the song goes on, though, the lyrics shift to remind both Denise and Peter of the bond they used to have in a desperate plea to win them back, even if they are technically sharing the same bed. The optimism of the instrumentals betrays somewhat that this is not a fight that will be lost, just one that needs some extra effort. ôLucky to be Lovedö is equally jaunty, but focuses on someone who is presumably DeniseÆs absentee father. The song details the absence of this figure in DeniseÆs life and how heartbreaking that was for her ù but Peter reiterates over and over in the song, how this figure, and everyone who knows her, is very lucky to be loved by her: a beautifully romantic sentiment that highlights how deeply they care for each other.