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The Dissolving Room
From Amazon: Featuring sparse, mostly acoustic instrumentation (lightly augmented by piano, violin, pedal steel, accordion, banjo, cello, and glockenspiel), Shearwater’s The Dissolving Room at times evokes musical forebears like Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen as well as indie songwriters like Belle and Sebastian, Smog’s Bill Callahan, and Elliot Smith.
Intended as a late-night album in the vein of Drake’s Pink Moon, The Dissolving Room showcases the songwriting talents of both Sheff (whose work with Okkervil River has been compared by reviewers to Will Oldham, the Magnetic Fields, and Lee Hazlewood) and Meiburg (who, with his distinctive falsetto, echoes Jeff Buckley and Thom Yorke) in terse, intimate songs about fall, hospitals, hummingbirds, and true crime.
1. “Mulholland” (Jonathan Meiburg) – 3:27
2. “Ella is the First Rider” (Will Sheff) – 3:38
3. “Grey Lining” (Will Sheff) – 3:25
4. “Angelina” (Jonathan Meiburg) – 2:39
5. “Sung into the Street” (Will Sheff) – 3:15
6. “Little Locket” (Will Sheff) – 3:12
7. “Military Clothes” (Jonathan Meiburg) – 2:17
8. “The Left Side” (Will Sheff) – 2:59
9. “Not Tonight” (Will Sheff) – 3:52
10. “If You Stay Sober” (Jonathan Meiburg) – 2:49
11. “Long Ride” (Will Sheff) – 1:32
12. “This Confiscated House” (Jonathan Meiburg) – 2:59
