Singer/songwriter Amy Millan (Sixteen Tons, Stars and Broken Social Scene) crafted a painterly debut with 2006's Honey from the Tombs, a soft and wistful Sunday drive of a record that was equal parts folk and country, with a hint of indie rock despair. 2009's Masters of the Burial opens the bedroom blinds a tad wider, bathing the room in a dusky glow that echoes late-period Sam Phillips and ex-Pulp guitarist-turned-modern-day Roy Orbison Richard Hawley. Millan offers up a sparse cover of the latter's "Run to Me" on Burial, an 11-track postcard from "a room or two away from the edge" that showcases the Canadian's impossibly warm voice and simple but effective melodies. Joined here and there by fellow "Great White North" crooners Evan Cranley, Dan and Jenny Whiteley, Leslie Feist, and Liam O'Neil, Millan's "plain jane" delivery may be occasionally sleep inducing, but it's comfort, not boredom that delivers the serotonin.
I've always thought that an artist who step away from their main bands to do solo work should differ from what they normally do. Stars/Broken Social Scene singer Amy Millan does this very well. On her solo albums she breaks from the ethereal indie rock of Stars and goes in for a more mellow, country-oriented sound.Millan stays true to that trend on her new album Masters Of The Burial. The
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I've always thought that an artist who step away from their main bands to do solo work should differ from what they normally do. Stars/Broken Social Scene singer Amy Millan does this very well. On her solo albums she breaks from the ethereal indie rock of Stars and goes in for a more mellow, country-oriented sound.Millan stays true to that trend on her new album Masters Of The Burial. The
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Thick Specs has a guest column up with an interview between Matt McKechnie and Amy Millan, whose new album Masters of the Burial is out on September 8. "TS: Well, I guess I'm just wanting to know what started you down the road of music?AM: Raffi. No word of a lie. It was Raffi. I was obsessed with his songs since I was 3 years old. I would sing along incessantly with all of our Raffi records. And
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Anyone who knows me knows I have a thing for Canadian women in music. I am especially excited to know that Amy Millan, the angelic voiced front woman of indie pop supergroup Stars, is set to release her sophmore album "Masters of the Burial" on September 8th...just two days away from right now!Her first solo effort "Honey From The Tombs" was an extraordinary effort - the pop love of "Skinny Bo...
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Over at Stereogum they've posted a great countrified cover of Death Cab for Cutie's "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" done by Amy Millan from her forthcoming album "Masters Of The Burial"! You should really go grab it!
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