Y O U R H
E A R T I S A G L O R I O U S M
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Released 2009 on SIGNATURE SOUNDS
Produced by JOSE
AYERVE
Engineered by MAX
FELDMAN
Y O U R H
E A R T I S A G L O R I O U S M
A C H I N E
Recorded at Dreamland Studios in West Hurley, NY. Photo by Tom Krueger.
1. Aphrodisiaholic
Ruth Ungar Merenda / Concert Works Music, ASCAP
2. Slow Down
Aoife O'Donovan / Cosmic Seed Music, ASCAP
3. My Crazy
Kristin Andreassen / Yellowcar Music, ASCAP
4. Joey
Johnette Napolitano
5. Shine It
Ruth Ungar Merenda / Concert Works Music, ASCAP
6. Diamond
Aoife O'Donovan / Cosmic Seed Music, ASCAP
7. The Stupid Kiss
Kristin Andreassen / Yellowcar Music, ASCAP
8. Cold Feet Blues
Ruth Ungar Merenda / Concert Works Music, ASCAP
9. Glorious Machine
Aoife O'Donovan / Cosmic Seed Music, ASCAP
10. The Sound Asleep
Kristin Andreassen / Yellowcar Music, ASCAP
Packaging: The CD comes in a lovely digipack with no plastic parts plus a lyrics booklet with featuring original artwork, photography and design by Diana Sudyka, Tom Krueger & Paul Fucik.
Reviews:
"Seduction can rarely be consciously manufactured. The real deal fills our senses and inspires unreasonable, perhaps even unwise reactions, but lordy it feels good... There's a gorgeous, subtle overlap to this collaboration that suggests nothing less than an estrogen rich answer to early Crosby, Stills & Nash... Early Joni Mitchell is the easy reference point, but Sometymes Why is tougher, less man-handled, more aware of their power and more willing to use it than that legendary waif of the canyon." – JamBase
"Like listening to a dream. Each song sounds as if they were singing only to you." – Modern Acoustic
"A very earthy, organic-sounding album. It never sounds the least bit corporate... and the fact that Sometymes Why are rootsy doesn't mean that they play it safe." – All Music Guide
"These are three very astute modern women, wo are self aware, and nimble of mind, and playful. [Glorious Machine] is a masterpiece of Victorian silk and lace... one of the most beautiful, sensual and at times passionate discs to grace the player in a long time. " – Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange
"This is the kind of stuff that could finally blow the door open on a new generation's folk music scare... these sirens are hard to resist." – The Midwest Record
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About the Album:
Check out this short video we made talking about our band & the new album.
Sometymes Why EPK
from Sometymes Why
on Vimeo.
Read about it:
Sometymes Why first came to be in the dark, quiet corners of the string band renaissance. Fans of each other’s respective bands, Andreassen, Merenda, and O’Donovan had performed together in various contexts, both formal and informal, for years. “In 2004,” Andreassen recalls, “we went to an afterparty in Brooklyn. I sang ‘The Seasick Dawn,’ and those two harmonized. It sounded too dreamy to not want to do it again.”
“We each had a bunch of songs that didn’t work with our own bands,” Merenda adds, “but they worked together. It became apparent to me that this is where I am most comfortable is singing songs from a female perspective or that are very confessional. That’s what makes a Sometymes Why song for me.”
They were songs that fell through the cracks – long forgotten, ignored, or locked away in some special place for a later use that may never come. These songs finally emerged as the basis of something new in 2004, when Kristin Andreassen (Uncle Earl), Ruth Ungar Merenda (the Mammals), and Aoife O’Donovan (Crooked Still) decided to begin performing together. By some unagreed-upon combination of coincidence, design, and accident – the trio took those secret songs and, via an arresting DIY debut album and a series of riveting live performances, gave birth to an underground sensation they called Sometymes Why.
Your Heart Is a Glorious Machine, to be released by Signature Sounds on March 10, 2009, is the second Sometymes Why album. Produced by José Ayerve (Winterpills, Spouse), Glorious Machine finds Sometymes Why taking a step out of the shadows, while continuing to nurture the languorous, luminously intimate pop that first inspired them to pursue their collaboration more intently.
As implied by the title (named for a line in O’Donovan’s haunting “Glorious Machine”), Your Heart Is a Glorious Machine resonates with a weathered elegance. Sometymes Why’s vein of richly personal, slow-motion pop is enriched by new sonic elements (electric guitar, Hammond organ, unusual reverbs and echoes, the clatter of the belfry noisemakers) and by more visceral songs such as Merenda’s sly “Aphrodisiaholic” and Andreassen’s ingenious “The Stupid Kiss.”
Every moment of Your Heart Is a Glorious Machine is underpinned and illuminated by the palpable warmth and camaraderie of the trio. “It is amazing to be a part of a band that includes two of my closest girl friends,” O’Donovan concludes. “It feels like a sisterhood, a club. It’s very cathartic to be singing these original songs that have so much weight in all of our lives, and not to be singing them alone – to sing them together.”
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