Rasputina Discography
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 RasputinaSister Kinderhook Release Date 2010 06 15 Label Filthy Bonnet Rating:  On Rasputina's seventh album, bandleader Melora Creager reconstitutes a new lineup -- including a new male member, cellist/singer Daniel DeJesus -- to continue her exploration of the string trio/pop song approach she has made her own over the course of nearly two decades. Released in a year when Joanna Newsom made her own most sprawling artistic statement to date, it's become all the easier to see how Creager and Rasputina served as a touchstone for many who followed. The lyrical focus of Sister Kinderhook is clear enough from the title and art alone -- the early decades of America and numerous features and story from a more rural existence. Framing the album with a song about &"Sweet Sister Temperance" and using lyrics from &"My Porcelain Life," Emily Dickinson is as much of a signal as anything, and not surprising given Rasputina's fairly consistent vision regarding a female-centric continuum of artistic inspiration. Elsewhere, there's explicit references to New York history (&"Calico Indians," describing the Anti-Rent War of 1844) as well as more imaginative stories of the darker fairy tale variety (&"Holocaust of Giants," &"Snow-Hen of Austerlitz"). Yet it's the sonic variety of the album that stands out all the clearer, ranging from the high notes and closely sung words of &"The 2 Miss Leavens" to the contrasting vocals and slowly descending chords of &"My Night Sky" to the rumbling music box percussion and chimes of &"Olde Dance" -- and those are just three songs in order out of 14. Ned Raggett, Rovi |
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | Sweet Sister Temperance | Creager | 4:46 |
| 2 | Holocaust of Giants | Creager | 2:58 |
| 3 | 2 Miss Leavens | Creager | 3:41 |
| 4 | My Night Sky | Creager | 4:19 |
| 5 | Olde Dance | Creager | 1:59 |
| 6 | Humankind, as the Sailor | Creager | 2:36 |
| 7 | Calico Indians | Creager | 5:54 |
| 8 | Snow-Hen of Austerlitz | Creager | 3:49 |
| 9 | Dark February | Creager | 3:51 |
| 10 | Utopian Society | Creager | 1:27 |
| 11 | Afternoon of the Faun | Creager | 3:18 |
| 12 | Kinderhook Hoopskirt Works | Creager | 4:18 |
| 13 | Meant to be Dutch | Creager | 4:28 |
| 14 | This, My Porcelain Life | Creager | 3:23 |
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