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AMG Review of Wildlife
Tim Sendra
All Music GuideHeadlights' third album, Wildlife, is at once their most immediate album and also their most reserved-sounding and emotionally powerful. Recorded over a relatively short period of time but punctuated by false starts, frustrations, and departures of bandmembers, the band ultimately ended up with an intimate and very personable sound. Using first takes and almost no production tricks, the strength of the record lies in the unadorned emotion of Erin Fein's vocals, and the wonderfully sweet and heartfelt songs the group wrote. While there may be no break-out hits on par with "Cherry Tulips" from 2008's Some Racing, Some Stopping, and the overall tone of the record is less joyous and more thoughtful, there are still quite a few songs that have some punch and forward motion. The sweetly sung "Get Going" and the rocked-out "I Don't Mind at All" have a rollicking feel that calls to mind the group's earlier work and gives some balance to the ballads that make up the core of the album. These slow and dream-like songs, like the '50s-inspired tracks "You and Eye" and "Dead Ends," the drifting "Teenage Wonder," and the heartbreakingly heavy "Slow Down Town" drift through the speakers like sleepwalking ghosts and deliver a truly aching sense of loss and sadness that's hard to shake. Despite its few moments of easygoing rocking, Wildlife has a tenderness that the band may not have been able to convey in the past, a bruised heart that they haven't displayed before. Some of the fans the band won over with "Cherry Tulips" may find it rough going at times, and find themselves wishing there were more good-time tunes on offer, but if they can get past that initial bump, the album is an emotionally powerful, melodically rich work that adds a new dimension to Headlights that is quite welcome.
New Music! Headlights share first MP3 from Wildlife via RCRD LBL
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MP3: "Get Going" -http://rcrdlbl.com/2009/08/17/exclusive_new_download_headlights_get_goingWildlife, Headlights' poignant third album, stems from particularly troubled beginnings. "It was a very difficult record," relates guitarist and songwriter Tristan Wraight. While Wraight, fellow songwriter and keyboardist Erin Fein, and drummer Brett Sanderson have been touring and recording since 2004, t...
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New Music! Headlights New Album 'Wildlife'
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Wildlife, Headlights' poignant third album, stems from particularly troubled beginnings. "It was a very difficult record," relates guitarist and songwriter Tristan Wraight. While Wraight, fellow songwriter and keyboardist Erin Fein, and drummer Brett Sanderson have been touring and recording since 2004, this year found the band as a five piece for the first time with the addition of bassist Nic...
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New song from Headlights + Tour w/ Anni Rossi
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Here's the first single from Headlights upcoming album, Wildlife, due out October 6th. Also, tour dates below (some of which are with my former Arts High School classmate Anni Rossi, an awesome viola-player / singer-songwriter):10/15 Iowa City, IA The Mill10/16 Dekalb, IL The House10/17 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle *#10/21 Allston, MA Great Scott *#10/22 - 10/23 New York, NY CMJ10/24 Philadelphia, PA
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Headlights are solid, if confusing, on Wildlife
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Wildlife is one of those albums that’s really hard to have a confident opinion about. I’m sure you know the type: you know the music is good, and the band is obviously talented, but you can’t really say why it works. Just me? Oh.Anyway, Headlights‘ Wildlife is that album. The sound has a certain haziness [...]
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Headlights – Wildlife – Album Review + A Tribe Called Quest
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Headlights’ third record often sounds like what I imagine a womb would sound like. (This is weird, I know, but it is going someplace quickly, I swear.) Imagine floating in a comforting space defined only in blurry, obscured semi-transparencies, with sounds and ideas flashing by your still forming brain in a kind of warm, pink [...]
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