Wood/Water * by The Promise Ring (CD, Oct-2004, Anti-) new sealed

Detailed item info
Album Features
UPC:    045778661725
Artist:    The Promise Ring
Format:    CD
Release Year:    2004
Record Label:    Anti-
Genre:    Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Size of Your Life
2. Stop Playing Guitar
3. Suffer Never
4. Become One Anything One Time
5. Wake Up April
6. Get on the Floor
7. Half Year Sun
8. My Life Is at Home
9. Letters to the Far Reaches
10. Bread and Coffee
11. Say Goodbye Good
12. Feed the Night

Details
Playing Time:    52 min.
Distributor:    Alternative Dis. Alliance
Recording Type:    Studio
Recording Mode:    Stereo
SPAR Code:    n/a

Album Notes
The Promise Ring: Davey Von Bohlen (vocals, guitar); Jason Gnewikow (guitar, keyboards, percussion); Ryan Weber (guitar, bass); Dan Didier (keyboards, drums, percussion).Additional personnel includes: Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (keyboards); Scott Schoenbeck (bass); Shalott Hazzard (background vocals).Producers: Stephen Street, Mario Caldato Jr.Engineers: Stephen Street, Cenzo Caldato, Jr., Robert Carranza.Recorded at Jacobs Studios, Farnham, England; Sonora, MCJ, Los Angeles, California; Polish Moon, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Personnel: Davey vonBohlen (vocals, guitar); Jason Gnewikow (guitar, keyboards, percussion); Dan Didier (keyboards, drums, percussion).Audio Mixers: Mario Caldato, Jr.; Stephen Street.Recording information: Jacobs Studios, Farnham, England; MCJ Sound, Los Angeles, CA; Polish Moon, Milwaulkee, WI; Sonora Studios, Los Angeles, CA.Photographer: Chris Strong.By the late 1990's The Promise Ring had propelled themselves to nearly the top rung of the ferociously melodic brand of music loosely labeled emocore. However, by 2002's WOOD/WATER, the Milwaukee-based quartet completed a transformation of sound begun on 1999's VERY EMERGENCY, an unabashedly poppy and breezy album, yet still unmistakably in the realm of irony-laden indie rock. The opening bars of WOOD/WATER's Wilcoesque, pensive "Get On The Floor" sees the more sedate band asserting "no more guitar songs, it's just nervous energy you're selling to me."Gone are most of the fire and the sardonic energy of earlier releases, replaced by what practically amounts to an album of modern cowboy ballads, introspective and reflective, with hummable melodies. Far from being dilettantes or bandwagon-jumpers, the foursome led by the high, dulcet tones of Davey von Bohlen proves that it has the innate talent to capably reinvent its sound while retaining sincerity. And on tracks like the adorably self-deprecating "Stop Playing Guitar" and the dreamlike "Become One Anything One Time" with its mournful refrain "I'm just happy you stuck around," the sincerity gives way to sheer beauty.