Springtime Can Kill You
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Springtime Can Kill You | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | May 8, 2006 | |||
Recorded | 2006 | |||
Genre | Alternative country, folk | |||
Length | 43:51 | |||
Label | Anti- | |||
Producer | Jolie Holland | |||
Jolie Holland chronology | ||||
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Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 78/100 link |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | link |
Billboard | favorable link |
Entertainment Weekly | A link |
Pitchfork | 6.9/10 link |
Springtime Can Kill You is Jolie Holland's third studio album. It was released in Europe on May 8, 2006 and in the United States on May 9, 2006 through Anti-. Anti describes the album as: Springtime Can Kill You, is a 12 track song-cycle - a crossroads where haunting meets joyful - a voice from the heavens singing stories of the underworld. Holland's songs rise and fall like heavy eyelids and convey the peace of that place between asleep and awake, creating a special place for you to be. There sounds from past and present-tense waltz together to a never-ending melody that flickers between folk, jazz, blues and pop. Holland's lyrics conjure characters and situations one might find in the surrealistic celluloid of Jim Jarmusch. As with all good dreams, there is an anything-goes spirit leading the way.
Track listing[edit]
All songs by Jolie Holland except when specified
- "Crush in the Ghetto" – 3:01
- "Mehitabel's Blues" (Jolie Holland/Brian Miller) – 3:21
- "Springtime Can Kill You" (Jolie Holland/Brian Miller) – 2:48
- "Crazy Dreams" (CR Avery) – 2:22
- "You're Not Satisfied" (adaptation of "Though you're not satisfied" written by Riley Pucket) – 2:09
- "Stubborn Beast" – 4:06
- "Don't Tell 'Em" – 2:29
- "Moonshiner" – 3:32
- "Ghostly Girl" – 3:34
- "Nothing Left to Do but Dream" – 7:24
- "Adieu False Heart" (traditional) – 2:36
- "Mexican Blue" – 6:29
Personnel[edit]
- Jolie Holland – voice, piano, whistle, box fiddle, guitar
- Brian Miller - guitars, piano, percussion, rhodes, electric bass, glockenspiel
- Keith Cary - upright bass, harmony vocals, tuba, lap steel, cello, hawaiian guitar
- David Mihaly - drum kit, tiny bells
- Peter Musselman - french horn, accordion
- Ara Anderson - baritone horn, pump organ
- Feddi Price - mellophone
- Olive Mitra - electric bass
- Sonny Smith - hammond b3 organ
- Carvell Wallace - harmony vocals
- David Dondero - voice
- Kate Klaire - harmony vocals