Pop & Miscellaneous

Vanessa Carlton - Best of Vanessa Carlton (2011)

2011-01-13T19:56:56Z

Vanessa Carlton - Icon: Best of Vanessa Carlton (2011)


01. A Thousand Miles 
02. Ordinary Day 
03. White Houses 
04. Heroes & Thieves 
05. Nolita Fairytale 
06. Who’s to Say 
07. Home 
08. San Francisco 
09. Pretty Baby         play
10. Hands On Me

There are a lot of people who have read what I have said about the career of Vanessa Carlton and thought that I was not fond of her music. This is not quite true. This album represents probably the best possible sort of place to find Vanessa Carlton’s work, which has been nothing if not uneven. Vanessa Carlton has made some fantastic music–some of it, like her singles from Rabbits On The Run, are not even included here–but she has never made an album that can be enjoyed thoroughly all the way through. So, since she has made some great singles, it would make sense that her major label would release this best of collection for those who are fans of her more familiar work and not necessarily fans of her deeper album tracks. In short, this album was made with people like me in mind, for whom most of the songs are familiar and remembered fondly. ---edgeinducedcohesion.blog

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Vanessa Carlton – Liberman (2015)

2016-04-05T16:00:05Z

Vanessa Carlton – Liberman (2015)


01 – Take It Easy
02 – Willows
03 – House of Seven Swords
04 – Operator
05 – Blue Pool
06 – Nothing Where Something Used to Be
07 – Matter of Time
08 – Unlock The Lock
09 – River
10 – Ascension

Deluxe Edition:

1. Vanessa Carlton - Blue Pool - Live Living Room Session [02:39]
2. Vanessa Carlton - River - Live Living Room Session [02:47]
3. Vanessa Carlton - Take it Easy - Live Living Room Session[04:27]
4. Vanessa Carlton - Willows - Live Living Room Session [02:49]
5. Vanessa Carlton - House of the Seven Swords - Original Demo[02:57]
6. Vanessa Carlton - Operator - Live Living Room Session [03:12]
7. Vanessa Carlton - Unlock the Lock - Live Living Room Session[03:09]
8. Vanessa Carlton - Nothing Where Something Used to Be - Live Living Room Session[03:49]

Vanessa Carlton - Composer, Keyboards, Organ, Piano, Primary Artist, Tambourine, Vocals
Adam Landry - Drums, Guitars, Programming, Synthesizer
John J. McCauley III - Drums, Guitar, Guitar (Bass), Guitar (Electric)
Steve Osborne 	- Drums, Guitars, Keyboards, Mixing, Synthesizer
Skye Steele - String Arrangements, Violin
Craig Alvin - Mixing

Continuing with the austere sincerity she carved out on 2011's Rabbits on the Run, Vanessa Carlton nevertheless opens up a bit on 2015's Liberman, an album named after her grandfather and written in the years after the singer/songwriter married and started a family. Carlton doesn't directly reference her lineage anywhere on Liberman, but with its ghostly music box pianos, electronic watercolors, staccato strings, and elliptical melodies, the album feels simultaneously elusive and introspective. While Carlton rarely quickens her pulse here -- at best, the record achieves a gentle simmer, never a boil -- all the slyly shifting sonics enveloping the songs give Liberman a painterly feel, a shift that comes as a welcome tonic to its predecessor. Where Rabbits on the Run often felt insular, Liberman seems to float above the fray, achieving a delicacy that's reflective while skillfully avoiding solipsism. Sometimes, the songs feel like sketches -- certainly, they're lacking direct hooks or anything designed to pull a listener within her world; she demands engagement on her own terms -- but the cumulative effect is greater than the sum of the parts. It's an album that plays as a piece, not as individual songs. Carlton may be avoiding any of the grand gestures that defined her earliest work but at this point, this quietly meditative pop feels like a truer reflection of her intentions than "A Thousand Miles." She's not a mainstream singer/songwriter relying on colorful productions and direct melody, she's happy to exist just on the edge of the fringe, finding sustenance in risk. --- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

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Vanessa Carlton – Rabbits On The Run (2011)

2011-08-21T15:19:21Z

Vanessa Carlton – Rabbits On The Run (2011)


01 – Carousel
02 – I Don’t Want to Be A Bride
03 – London
04 – Fairweather Friend
05 – Hear The Bells
06 – Dear California
07 – Tall Tales For Spring
08 – Get Good
09 – The Marching Line
10 – In the End					play				
Bonus Tracks:
11 – Tall Tales for Spring (Live Acoustic)
12 – Carousel (Live Acoustic)			play
13 – London (Live Acoustic)

Shifting to indie Razor & Tie after a four-year hiatus following her 2007 album, Heroes & Thieves, Vanessa Carlton turns inward on her fourth album, Rabbits on the Run. Embracing all the spectral elements that ran underneath the surface of her music, Carlton avoids any of the surging orchestrations or any suggestions of cheer, spending long stretches of the album alone with her piano, and when the arrangements are fleshed-out, they’re done so subtly that it often seems as if she’s singing alone in the studio. Even if it has the effect of turning Rabbits on the Run into something of an unintentional Tori Amos homage, it’s an appropriately austere setting for Carlton’s melancholy introspections, ruminations that don’t offer any easy way inside. Unlike “A Thousand Miles” or the two albums that dealt with the repercussions of her initial success, this is music made with no audience in mind: it is strikingly personal, to the extent that it suggests that Carlton needs to get this soul-searching out of her system in order to move forward. --- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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