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The Letting Go | 
 enlarge | Artist: Bonnie "prince" Billy
Label: Drag City
Category: Music
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 4850
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 420
UPC: 781484042020
EAN: 0781484042020
ASIN: B000H0MMKY
Release Date: September 19, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Love Comes to Me | | • | Strange Form of Life | | • | Wai | | • | Cursed Sleep | | • | No Bad News | | • | Cold & Wet | | • | Big Friday | | • | Lay and Love | | • | The Seedling | | • | Then the Letting Go - Bonnie "Prince" Billy, McCarthy, Dawn | | • | God's Small Song | | • | I Called You Back |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Having long recorded as Palace Music or Palace, the enigmatic, elusive Bonnie "Prince" Billy continues to confound musical expectations. His latest may well be his loveliest, a series of meditations and tone poems on love and mortality, with the autumnal strains of a chamber quartet and the vocal counterpoint of Dawn McCarthy supporting Billy's tremulous expression of his surreal, stream-of-consciousness lyricism. Results range from the dreamy, bluesy "Cursed Sleep" and the evocation of a British madrigal on "No Bad News" to the discordant propulsion of "The Seedling" and the call and response of the folkish "Then the Letting Go." It all fits together in a manner that defies categorization and dares the listener to resist its aural seduction. --Don McLeese
Album Description
Limited Edition two CD set by Bonnie Prince Billy (AKA Will Oldham) featuring the 2006 album The Letting Go plus a bonus disc, Little Lost Songs, which features an additional 13 unreleased or rare tracks! The Letting Go is an overwhelming undertaking. There are strings-lovely charts that do so much more than just trace chord changes up and down the neck. Arrangements by Ryder McNair and Nico Muhly are threaded throughout the record, augmenting a simple quintet of players to provide a sixth sense. The deceptive nature of his band is on display from the top. `Filthy' Jim White is known far and wide for his resource behind the drum kit and he proves it song after song, with sensitivity that provokes dynamic variety from skins, an acoustic depth to the room. Paul Oldham's bass is a feeling accompaniment to Bonny's guitar, played with brotherly clairvoyance and constancy. Young Emmett Kelly's clean electric guitar lines roam within the web and suddenly shine, are blues and folk and R&B in shifting turn, guilelessly tactic and soulfully expressive. And up front with Bonny is the bewitching Dawn McCarthy of Faun Fables. Her vocal flights on those records can hardly prepare one for the intimacy and empathy of her harmonies and other voices on The Letting Go. Domino.
Album Details
Includes Limited Edtion Bonus CD.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Brilliant (As always, Will Oldham after all) November 14, 2008
Ricardo Gardeazabal (Haymarket, Va)
Great music. Once Oldham gets a hold on ya, there's no turning back. I recommend a second listen to many of his songs to find the gold. Many songs are slow but so ever melodic and the lyrics will haunt you for days. My favorite musician. Try ease down the road and I see a darkness...Hell, try anything.
Gorgeous, only a couple of songs short of greatness April 29, 2008
L. Sewell (australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album sounds great to me, I don't even mind Dawn McCarthy's accompanying vocals - they fit the context of these songs perfectly for me.
This album was a surprise for me after listening to Bonnie Prince Billy's recent work. I think I was expecting something more stripped-back, but this lush album cemented him as one of my favourite musicians in my collection.
I love the modern-folk sound throughout this album, my only reservation is that it could have maybe just one or two more great songs, to bump it up to 5 stars.
Or they could just edit out the "... hey little bird ..." part off the end of "No Bad News" and leave "I called you back" off the album altogether. Just my 2c, sorry Will - I still love your work!
This Album is Really Good! November 15, 2007
Jboogie
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Letting Go is a must for fans of the 'Bonnie' Prince, and is a true gem in his highly impressive catalog. I have all of Will Oldham's albums with the execption of Joya, and they are all good, but this one is very special. The song writing is outstanding, and his harmonies with Dawn McCarthy are amazing. Anyone familiar with Mr. Oldhams' work under the 'Bonnie' Prince name knows his work is slow moving and emotive, and The Letting Go is similar, but is even more stirring than any of his previous work. This album has a highly cinematic feel to it, almost as if it's a soundtrack for some Oscar winning movie about timeless love or something. Like most 'Bonnie' Prince records this one takes a few listens to really get into and be able to appreciate the depth of musical and poetic skill of this artist, but it is worth the time. Get this one now! Seriously!!
Just as Cave May 31, 2007
Jack Orion (Long Beach, CA)
A gorgious record. Oldhams music is becoming mature, aged like wood or spirit. A true treasure and one not to be missed unless you care nothing for poems. This release is on par with Nick Cave's masterpiece "No More Shall We Part". Both artists highly prolific, yet Will seems to be a tad more rooted. Simply amazing to have someone like him around in our lifetime. Sort of like Prefontaine. Go Pre...Go Will.
Chill April 6, 2007
J. McCartney
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
if you like the really chill BPB stuff, this one is for you. However, there are none of the rockin' type ones, so yeah good stuff
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