The Letting Go
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
2006
The Letting Go is a Rock album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, originally released in 2006. On Gatefold: 11 pressings tracked.
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Folk Rock
- cavernous
- brooding
- poetic
About
Decamped to Iceland, Will Oldham, a.k.a. Bonnie “Prince” Billy, doubles down on his usual idiosyncrasies for this beguiling 2006 album. For all the stately romance of opener “Love Comes to Me” and the soft-stepping intimacy of “I Called You Back,” between those bookends lies a truly unpredictable journey. Nico Muhly’s burnished string arrangements and Dawn McCarthy’s pleading vocal harmonies both adapt to match Oldham’s free-flowing mood swings, graduating from wispy softness to sloshing volatility for the darkly delivered “The Seedling.”
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Tracklist
- 1Love Comes to Me4:31
- 2Strange Form of Life3:46
- 3Wai3:37
- 4Cursed Sleep5:35
- 5No Bad News4:45
- 6Cold & Wet2:21
- 7Big Friday2:43
- 8Lay and Love3:50
- 9The Seedling4:36
- 10Then the Letting Go5:19
- 11God's Small Song4:03
- 12I Called You Back7:51
Credits
Performers
- Nico MuhlyARRANGED BY
- Ryder McNairARRANGED BY
- Paul OldhamBASS ELECTRIC PIANO
- Hrafnkell Orri EgilssonCELLO
- Jim WhiteDRUMS ELECTRIC PIANO
- Bonnie "Prince" BillyELECTRIC PIANO VOCALS
- Emmett KellyELECTRIC PIANO GUITAR
- Valgeir SigurðssonELECTRIC PIANO
- Will OldhamELECTRIC PIANO VOCALS
- Þórunn Ósk MarinósdóttirVIOLA
- Greta GuðnadóttirVIOLIN
- Una SveinbjarnardóttirVIOLIN
- Dawn McCarthyVOCALS ARRANGED BY
- Matt Sweeney
- Mick Turner
- Mike Portera
- Ned Oldham
- Randall Shurbert
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 11 pressings tracked on Gatefold