Hope Sandoval And The Warm Inventions: Until The Hunter (2 CD Bonus Tracks) 2016

 

Hope Sandoval (born June 24, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter who is the lead singer of

Mazzy Star and Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions. Sandoval has toured and collaborated with other artists, including Massive Attack, for whom she sang "Paradise Circus" on the 2010 album Heligoland and the 2016 single "The Spoils".
                            

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions are an independent alternative/dream pop band composed of

Hope Sandoval from the band Mazzy Star and Colm Ó Cíosóig of My Bloody Valentine. Sandoval formed The Warm Inventions in 2000 and released her first solo album Bavarian Fruit Bread in 2001, which she recorded with My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig. The album differed in terms of theme, voice, and instrumentation from that of her work with Mazzy Star.
                               

Bert Jansch plays guitar on two tracks, and the album features two covers, "Butterfly Mornings" from

the film The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) and Jesus and Mary Chain's "Drop". The Warm Inventions released two EPs, At the Doorway Again in 2000 and Suzanne in 2002 but did not win commercial success, with one video on MTV and little radio play. Sandoval recorded a song, "Wild Roses", for a compilation CD released by Air France, In the Air (2008).
                         

                         
Their first studio album, Bavarian Fruit Bread, was released on October 23, 2001. Alan Browne, from Irish band Dirt Blue Gene, played bass and co-wrote several songs on the album. Hope Sandoval and

The Warm Inventions released their second album, Through the Devil Softly, on September 29, 2009. Sandoval and her band were chosen by Matt Groening to perform at the edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he curated in May 2010 in Minehead, England. The group also played the ATP New York 2010 music festival in Monticello, New York in September 2010 at the request of film director Jim Jarmusch.
                                

Through the Devil Softly was released on September 29, 2009, and was recorded with Dirt Blue Gene.

Their third album, Until the Hunter, was released on November 4, 2016. Its first single, "Isn't It True", was released on 7" vinyl as part of Record Store Day 2016. A second single, "Let Me Get There" featuring Kurt Vile, was released on September 23.
                              

In a 2016 interview with Consequence of Sound, Ó Cíosóig explained how the musical composition

differed from his and Hope's other bands, "It's not that our other bands have restrictions, but there's a certain sound in those bands. Hope and I have a sound, but it's always changing and morphing into different things while still carrying a similar thread."
                   

The album-opening "Into the Trees" is a very, very slowly unspooling psych folk ballad that doesn't have much of a tune, but grabs the listener by the throat using its foggy chords, mysterious organ, and Sandoval's almost possessed vocals. It lasts for nine minutes, but could have gone on twice as long. The

rest of the album is fully up to the standards Sandoval has established over time, with heart-tugging ballads like the very Mazzy Star-sounding "The Peasant" and the lovely "Day Disguise," languid folk songs ("The Hiking Song," "A Wonderful Seed"), and even a couple songs of a more sprightly-than-usual nature, the handclap-driven "I Took a Slip" and the almost jaunty "Isn't it True." As on previous Warm Inventions records, Sandoval and Ó Cíosóig prove masters of creating atmospheric settings for her luminous vocals. 

                           

HOPE  SANDOVAL  &  KURT  VILE

The duet with Kurt Vile on "Let Me Get There" features the duo getting loose over a slinky

HOPE  SANDOVAL  &  KURT  VILE

Memphis soul groove: Sandoval sounding strangely at home in unfamiliar surroundings, Vile sounding like he wandered in off the street and barely learned the song. It's too bad he got the gig -- there are at least 50 male singers who could have nailed it in his place. The album-opening "Into the Trees" is a very, very slowly unspooling psych folk ballad that doesn't have much of a tune, but grabs the listener by the throat using its foggy chords, mysterious organ, and Sandoval's almost possessed vocals.
                     

KURT  VILE  &  HOPE  SANDOVAL

Kurt Samuel Vile (born January 3, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist,

and record producer. He is known for his solo work and as the former lead guitarist of rock band the War on Drugs. Both in the studio and during live performances, Vile is accompanied by his backing band, the Violators, which currently includes Jesse Trbovich (guitar, saxophone), Rob Laakso (guitar, bass, keyboards), Kyle Spence (drums) and Adam Langellotti (bass).
                           

The addition of vibraphone and the slightly more expansive arrangements help make the album a subtle

progression from the first two, so do the increased number of catchy songs. The duo have crafted another beautiful album and Sandoval sounds just as bewitching as she did the first time she stepped behind a microphone. Seven years is a long time to wait between albums, but if that's how long it takes to make the album as good as this is, then the wait was worth it.  

Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions

Bavarian Fruit Bread (2001)
Through the Devil Softly (2009)
Until the Hunter (2016)

Hope Sandoval And The Warm Inventions – Until The Hunter
Label: Tendril Tales – TT 03, Tendril Tales – tt03, Tendril Tales – TT03CD, Tendril Tales – TT 03B
Format: 2CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: Nov 4, 2016
Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Alternative Rock, Acoustic, Shoegaze, Ethereal

TRACKS

DISC 1.

                                     

01. Into The Trees    9:04
02. The Peasant    4:58
03. A Wonderful Seed    4:19
04. Let Me Get There (Featuring – Kurt Vile)   7:31
05. Day Disguise    4:51
06. Treasure    5:54
07. Salt Of The Sea    4:22
08. The Hiking Song    4:29
09. Isn't It True    3:05
10. I Took A Slip    4:04
11. Liquid Lady    6:23

DISC 2. BONUS TRACKS       

                                              

  
12. That Spider    4:09
13. She's In The Wall    3:32

NOTES

Artwork – Barry Bödeker
Backing Vocals – Hope Sandoval, Mariee Sioux
Bass – Al Browne
Cello – Ji-Young Moon
Drums – Colm Ó Cíosóig
Gong, Nyckelharpa [Nickleharp] – Michael Masley
Guitar [Guitars] – Charles Cullen, Colm Ó Cíosóig, Dave Brennan, Jim Putnam
Keyboards – Hope Sandoval, Mick Whelan
Producer – Colm Ó Cíosóig, Hope Sandoval
Vibraphone [Vibes] – Hope Sandoval
Vocals – Hope Sandoval, Kurt Vile, Mariee Sioux
Written-By – Alan Montgomery (tracks: 1-11), Charles Cullen (tracks: 1-6), Colm Ó Cíosóig (tracks: 1-1, 1-3 to 1-5, 1-7 to 1-11), Dave Brennan (3) (tracks: 1-11), Hope Sandoval

MP3 @ 320 Size: 154 MB
Flac  Size: 361 MB

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