Format Details: LP /
Release Date: 27 March 2020
Label: Forward Music Group
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 682863343625
Genres: Americana Singer Songwriter
Release Date: 28 August 2020
Label: Forward Music Group
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 682863343632
Genres: Americana Singer Songwriter
Description
On the south shore of Nova Scotia, in a house she helped build, Jennah Barry wrote, arranged, and recorded the songs that comprise Holiday, her second album. With Colin Nealis, her "greatest musical partner"—and partner in life—she made the album in 20- minute pockets, whenever their brand-new daughter would sleep, resulting in a piece of art that's focused, delicate, of its own time while seemingly of one past.
The title is a hallmark of Barry's trademark wit—and the truth of that progress is found in the gentle mundanity of everyday spiked with big life events like vocal surgery, and a baby. The truth is, Barry simply needed the time. "I make Grand Canyons in my brain I can't escape," she says. "The only time I can write about it is when I find a way out. The whole record is about ruminating."
You can hear the ruminating from the very beginning, starting with the rueful waltz "No Dancer, on which Barry sings, "He sure can move / but he's no dancer" before a swell of backing singers adds "Board the door / for one more night." It's followed by the first single "Roller Disco," steeped deep in nostalgia, strings, and gentle sadness, a lost AM radio hit. "Ever since I wrote that song I had a visceral idea of how I wanted the whole album to feel," she says. "I wanted people to feel very far away, and lonely but okay with it."
Where her debut Young Men—a left-field album that announced her arrival fully formed —sounds like an artist flush with the confidence of youth, brooding and urgent, Holiday is a reflection of maturity, of worn-in and worn-down experience. There's the lullaby "Are You Dreaming": "'Every day comes once then it's over,'" Barry quotes from the song. "That's what I tell myself." On "Big Universe" she digs into her search for a higher power, AKA horoscopes: "I needed to know what to do. I've always experimented with my spirituality." Her favourite is "I See Morning," whose refrain laments, "Looking at the world / nothing ever happens." The slow-burning, dramatic closer, "Stop The Train," is a metaphor for whether pursuing music was still worth it at all: "I took a long look behind me / you're gone."
Like all of Barry's work, Holiday is intimate and intricate, timeless and universal—it sounds like it could've come out of Joni Mitchell's Laurel Canyon as well as the one Jenny Lewis inhabits now.
"You know when you were a kid, listening to music on headphones, and put your head against the window, pretending to be in a movie?" she says. "Pretty much everything I write, I want that feeling. I want everyone who listens to lean their head against the backseat of a car, dreaming about their life."
Description
On the south shore of Nova Scotia, in a house she helped build, Jennah Barry wrote, arranged, and recorded the songs that comprise Holiday, her second album. With Colin Nealis, her "greatest musical partner"âand partner in lifeâshe made the album in 20- minute pockets, whenever their brand-new daughter would sleep, resulting in a piece of art that's focused, delicate, of its own time while seemingly of one past.
It's been in progress a long whileâthe title is a hallmark of Barry's trademark witâand the truth of that progress is found in the gentle mundanity of everyday spiked with big life events like vocal surgery, and a baby. The truth is, Barry simply needed the time. "I make Grand Canyons in my brain I can't escape," she says. "The only time I can write about it is when I find a way out. The whole record is about ruminating."
You can hear the ruminating from the very beginning, starting with the rueful waltz "No Dancer, on which Barry sings, "He sure can move / but he's no dancer" before a swell of backing singers adds "Board the door / for one more night." It's followed by the first single "Roller Disco," steeped deep in nostalgia, strings, and gentle sadness, a lost AM radio hit. "Ever since I wrote that song I had a visceral idea of how I wanted the whole album to feel," she says. "I wanted people to feel very far away, and lonely but okay with it."
Where her debut Young Menâa left-field album that announced her arrival fully formed âsounds like an artist flush with the confidence of youth, brooding and urgent, Holiday is a reflection of maturity, of worn-in and worn-down experience. There's the lullaby "Are You Dreaming": "'Every day comes once then it's over,'" Barry quotes from the song. "That's what I tell myself." On "Big Universe" she digs into her search for a higher power, AKA horoscopes: "I needed to know what to do. I've always experimented with my spirituality." Her favourite is "I See Morning," whose refrain laments, "Looking at the world / nothing ever happens." The slow-burning, dramatic closer, "Stop The Train," is a metaphor for whether pursuing music was still worth it at all: "I took a long look behind me / you're gone."
Like all of Barry's work, Holiday is intimate and intricate, timeless and universalâit sounds like it could've come out of Joni Mitchell's Laurel Canyon as well as the one Jenny Lewis inhabits now.
"You know when you were a kid, listening to music on headphones, and put your head against the window, pretending to be in a movie?" she says. "Pretty much everything I write, I want that feeling. I want everyone who listens to lean their head against the backseat of a car, dreaming about their life."
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Nico Paulo
Paper Beat Scissors
Aquakultre
Motherhood
Century Egg
Michael Feuerstack
Michael Feuerstack
Paper Beat Scissors
Martin Sexton
Non Canon
