: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Andy Shauf : Album.......: The Neon Skyline : : Label.......: Anti- .. .:.. . Genre.......: Indie : Catnr.......: 7475-2 . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2020-01-31 Str.date....: 2020-01-24 Quality.....: 231kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://www.andyshauf.com/ ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Neon Skyline 3:38 2. Where Are You Judy 3:21 3. Clove Cigarette 2:55 4. Thireen Hours 2:58 5. Things I Do 2:27 6. Living Room 3:05 7. Dust Kids 2:40 8. The Moon 3:36 9. Try Again 3:48 10. Fire Truck 3:21 11. Changer 3:02 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 34:51 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 60.94 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: The Canadian singer-songwriter uses the concept album to :, : recreate the quietly stirring scenes of a dead romance. The Neon : :' Skyline unfolds into a wistful, funny, and heartbreaking world ': ,: of its own. :, : : :' Andy Shauf writes songs full of drinking and dancing, deep ': ,: conversation and inside jokes, close friends and old flamesùand :, : heÆs having a miserable time. Since his 2009 debut, the : :' soft-spoken singer-songwriter has grown increasingly adept at ': ,: telling stories from the vantage of the next morningÆs hangover: :, : plagued by regret, lingering on moments of unease stitched : :' through an otherwise pleasant evening. Like Phoebe Bridgers, he ': ,: incorporates bits of dialogue into his lyrics that illustrate :, : not just how his characters speak but also how they really feel : :' about each other. Like Jens Lekman, he accompanies himself with ': ,: hushed, breezy soft-rock that can betray the intensity of his :, : thoughts. Some of his best choruses are wordless refrains, the : :' sound of singing along without knowing what to say. ': ,: :, : ShaufÆs new concept album The Neon Skyline takes place over the : :' span of one night, as did his last solo record, 2016Æs The ': ,: Party. The story goes like this: Our narrator heads to a bar :, : where he hears that his ex is back in town. From there, he : :' spirals through the course of their relationship from young ': ,: love to jealous arguments to dreams of starting over. He :, : eventually runs into her and they go their separate ways. But by : :' this point, late in the album, youÆve learned that ': ,: reconciliation was never the point. In the climactic ôThirteen :, : Hours,ö Shauf drifts through a flashback that doesnÆt focus on : :' the fight that brought out their true nature, or the injury ': ,: that landed one of them in the hospital. Instead, the key lyric :, : is about a simple facial expression that suggested how things : :' could never be the same again. ': ,: :, : These are subtle scenes to hinge a narrative on, especially one : :' as simple as this. Deeply earnest but wary of dipping into ': ,: melodrama, Shauf gravitates toward the quietly stirring :, : realizations youÆd find in a Raymond Carver story. There is no : :' irony, little closure, and often no moral at the end. HeÆs now ': ,: in his early 30s, more than a decade removed from an early :, : adulthood spent playing Christian pop-punk, and he has updated : :' his songwriting to reflect precisely the kinds of social ': ,: situations that keep polite, seemingly well-adjusted adults :, : awake at night. The moodùwistfulness giving way to : :' self-deprecation, deep insight cut with awful punsùis both ': ,: familiar and endearing. :, : : :' The most affecting songs arrive during the albumÆs mid-section, ': ,: when a polite question about a friendÆs kid in ôLiving Roomö :, : turns into a hallucinogenic vision quest about death and : :' reincarnation and living out our parentsÆ mistakes. The ambling ': ,: folk musicùwhich Shauf plays entirely by himself on piano, :, : guitar, woodwinds, and beyondùdims and intensifies to suggest a : :' change in setting. When he sings about an intimate story ': ,: transporting him into someone elseÆs home, you feel like youÆre :, : there with him. : :' ': ,: For all ShaufÆs expertise as a writer and arranger, the quality :, : of his music that stands out is his gentle, fluttering vocal : :' affectation. Upon first listen, I was certain he was Scottish. ': ,: HeÆs actually from Regina, Saskatchewan and just so happens to :, : pronounce the name ôCharlieö in a way that sounds closer to : :' ôshoreline.ö He cracks a good joke about this in the jaunty ': ,: ôTry Again,ö where his narrator approximates a British accent to :, : a response of bewilderment: ôWhat was that supposed to be?ö Like : :' any good storyteller, he knows when to punch things upùyou ': ,: could play a drinking game with the number of times he mentions :, : characters laughing at each other. But he also sounds a good : :' deal lighter than he did on The Party, as the story of The Neon ': ,: Skyline calls for a voice that can drift from bar to bar, mood :, : to mood. How sad can you be when the bartender knows what you : :' want without asking and the jukebox has your favorite song? ': ,: :, : The Neon Skyline doesnÆt require deep investment in its : :' narrative to enjoy. Still, the closer you listen, the more ': ,: rewarding it becomes. Shauf is growing increasingly masterful at :, : casting a spotlight on tiny moments that tend to get overlooked : :' in stories about relationships. In ôTry Again,ö a loaded ': ,: misunderstanding provides one of the albumÆs best scenes: ôI :, : miss this,ö she says, touching his coat; ôI miss you too,ö he : :' responds; ôI was talking about the coat,ö she clarifies. The ': ,: record ends with a similarly subdued revelation, as the narrator :, : allows himself a brief fantasy about how things could have : :' played out differently between them. The thought is momentarily ': ,: thrilling, and the music is equally smokey and romantic, until :, : he cuts himself off: ôOh, IÆm already bored.ö HeÆs learning that : :' thereÆs a whole world out thereùnew people to meet, other ': ,: stories to tell, more nights to regret. :, : : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 2 0 \/