180g Vinyl Double LP!
Includes 4 Previously Unreleased Bonus Tracks!
At the time, you could count on two things with Vic Chesnutt: he would approach any topic from the delicate to the mundane and he would take an unexpected angle. With an incisive eye and razor wit, he would always cut straight to the heart of the matter. He did so to great effect on Silver Lake, giving equal weight to the tender affirmation of "In My Way, Yes" and the scathing self-critique of "Styrofoam," and applying his delightfully odd spin to the standard love story on both "Band Camp" (a funny, nostalgic tale of romance in the high school horn section) and the Brian Wilson homage "Fa-La-La" (a saga of unanswered longing thats set in a hospital).
Chesnutts idiosyncratic quaver and nylon-string strum are abetted throughout by generous rock and soul arrangements, all of which were pristinely recorded by Daniel Lanois protege Mark Howard (who also produced Lucinda Williamss World Without Tears).
"Vic Chesnutt might never be famous, but his songs touch on inner truths that lurk around us. They strike something deep inside their listeners beings." Pop Matters
"...The best thing about a Vic Chesnutt album is always the songs, and that's certainly the case here; in Chesnutt's world, life-changing romance can be found at band camp, the gulf between the sexes is at once funny and tragic, a eunuch can understand the love of both body and spirit better than the sultan he serves, and love can wound and soothe given the circumstances -- Chesnutt's stories always strike an honest and recognizable emotional chord, no matter how oddball the situations that surround them. You're not going to hear an evocation of love like "Sharing breakfast from one plate/Holding hands over loved ones' graves/Do you think I deserve it?/I say yes in my way yes" from anyone else, and the curious but heart-tugging beauty of lines like this are all the reason you need to give Vic Chesnutt and Silver Lake an honored space in your record collection." - Mark Deming, allmusic.com
Features:
180g Vinyl
Double LP
Limited Time HD download
Four previously unreleased bonus tracks from a Silver Lake demo disc
Selections:
Side A:
1. Im Through
2. Stay Inside
3. Band Camp
4. Girls Say
Side B:
1. 2nd Floor
2. Styrofoam
3. Zippy Morocco
4. Sultan, So Mighty
Side C:
1. Wrens Nest
2. Fa-La-La
3. In My Way, Yes
Side D:
1. Stay Inside (Demo)*
2. Girls Say (Demo)*
3. Band Camp (Demo)*
4. Aunt Avis (Demo)*
*Bonus Tracks
Includes 4 Previously Unreleased Bonus Tracks!
At the time, you could count on two things with Vic Chesnutt: he would approach any topic from the delicate to the mundane and he would take an unexpected angle. With an incisive eye and razor wit, he would always cut straight to the heart of the matter. He did so to great effect on Silver Lake, giving equal weight to the tender affirmation of "In My Way, Yes" and the scathing self-critique of "Styrofoam," and applying his delightfully odd spin to the standard love story on both "Band Camp" (a funny, nostalgic tale of romance in the high school horn section) and the Brian Wilson homage "Fa-La-La" (a saga of unanswered longing thats set in a hospital).
Chesnutts idiosyncratic quaver and nylon-string strum are abetted throughout by generous rock and soul arrangements, all of which were pristinely recorded by Daniel Lanois protege Mark Howard (who also produced Lucinda Williamss World Without Tears).
"Vic Chesnutt might never be famous, but his songs touch on inner truths that lurk around us. They strike something deep inside their listeners beings." Pop Matters
"...The best thing about a Vic Chesnutt album is always the songs, and that's certainly the case here; in Chesnutt's world, life-changing romance can be found at band camp, the gulf between the sexes is at once funny and tragic, a eunuch can understand the love of both body and spirit better than the sultan he serves, and love can wound and soothe given the circumstances -- Chesnutt's stories always strike an honest and recognizable emotional chord, no matter how oddball the situations that surround them. You're not going to hear an evocation of love like "Sharing breakfast from one plate/Holding hands over loved ones' graves/Do you think I deserve it?/I say yes in my way yes" from anyone else, and the curious but heart-tugging beauty of lines like this are all the reason you need to give Vic Chesnutt and Silver Lake an honored space in your record collection." - Mark Deming, allmusic.com
Features:
180g Vinyl
Double LP
Limited Time HD download
Four previously unreleased bonus tracks from a Silver Lake demo disc
Selections:
Side A:
1. Im Through
2. Stay Inside
3. Band Camp
4. Girls Say
Side B:
1. 2nd Floor
2. Styrofoam
3. Zippy Morocco
4. Sultan, So Mighty
Side C:
1. Wrens Nest
2. Fa-La-La
3. In My Way, Yes
Side D:
1. Stay Inside (Demo)*
2. Girls Say (Demo)*
3. Band Camp (Demo)*
4. Aunt Avis (Demo)*
*Bonus Tracks
