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Vanessa Carlton
Harmonium
Release Date: 2004 11 09
Label: Polydor
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On her second album, Harmonium, singer/songwriter Vanessa Carlton enlists her boyfriend, Stephan Jenkins -- best-known as the frontman of the popular post-grunge band Third Eye Blind -- as a producer and co-songwriter, and his presence doesn't so much alter Carlton's music as give it a sharper, direct focus. Carlton and Jenkins focus on the lush, dramatic teen-age angst that made "A Thousand Miles" a big hit in 2002, using that song as the template for a collection of songs that are intimate on a grand scale. Carlton's songs often read like diary entries, dealing with such familiar adolescent themes as love and longing, and they sound even smaller when delivered in her thin but appealing girlish voice, but they gain stature when married to the cinematic arrangements, driven by her insistent, circular piano and dressed by light layers of strings, guitars, and vocal overdubs. Where her Be Not Nobody debut could sound endearingly awkward, Harmonium is confident and somber, a conscious attempt to be serious and mature. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1White HousesCarlton, Jenkins3:45
2Who's to SayJenkins, Carlton4:51
3AnnieCarlton, Jenkins4:48
4San FranciscoCarlton4:12
5AfterglowCarlton3:56
6Private RadioCarlton, Jenkins2:59
7Half a Week Before the WinterCarlton3:27
8C'est la VieCarlton2:34
9PapaCarlton2:39
10She FloatsCarlton5:15
11WreckageCarlton4:49

Other Releases:
Harmonium [Bonus Track]
Release Date: 2004
Label: Universal Distribution

Harmonium [Bonus DVD]
Release Date: 2004
Label: Universal Distribution


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Werewolf Girl 4282 Sat Mar 1 2008 03:27:41
It's very calm and relaxing. It's more melow than her first one.
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