Name: How I Knew Her
Brand: Nonesuch
SKU: 29982847
Price: 16.33 SGD
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How I Knew Her

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Album: How I Knew Her
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Araceli	More Info...
2)	Leslie	More Info...
3)	How I Knew Her	More Info...
4)	Back to the Barracks	More Info...
5)	Long Running Joke	More Info...
6)	Counting Down	More Info...
7)	Caroline	More Info...
8)	Please Don't Scream	More Info...
9)	Still a Believer	More Info...
10)	Even Steven	More Info...
11)	Why Did You Marry	More Info...
12)	I Just Wanted You to Get Old	More Info...

Album: How I Knew Her
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Araceli	More Info...
2)	Leslie	More Info...
3)	How I Knew Her	More Info...
4)	Back to the Barracks	More Info...
5)	Long Running Joke	More Info...
6)	Counting Down	More Info...
7)	Caroline	More Info...
8)	Please Don't Scream	More Info...
9)	Still a Believer	More Info...
10)	Even Steven	More Info...
11)	Why Did You Marry	More Info...
12)	I Just Wanted You to Get Old	More Info...

Performer Notes

Lyricist: Nataly Dawn.
Audio Mixer: Mike Mogis.
Recording information: Prairie Studio, Cotati, CA.
Photographer: Jeffrey Marini.
Arranger: Jack Conte.
A heady and quirky mix of Regina Spektor, Leslie Feist, and Joni Mitchell, the second album from Nataly Dawn, the female half of heady and quirky indie pop duo Pomplamoose, is held together by the French- and Belgium-raised, Stanford-educated, American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist's gift for gab, unique phrasing, and sophisticated musicality. Largely acoustic yet peppered with swampy slide guitar, brooding strings, and gospel-tinged organ, Dawn plays fast and loose with genres while maintaining a foundation that owes as much to jazz and blues as it does to folk traditions. Less reliant on the indie pop architecture of Pomplamoose, there is a tantalizing and soulful undercurrent that runs through How I Knew Her, which owes more than a cursory nod to its multi-talented backing players, who provide album highlights like the seductive, sing-songy "Araceli," the expansive and truly mesmerizing title cut, and the ghostly "Long Running Joke," with the kind of tasteful yet confident propulsion that can only come from well-seasoned session musicians, who in this case include Ryan Lerman (Ben Folds), David Piltch (Bill Frisell), Louis Cole (Pomplamoose), and Matt Chamberlain (Fiona Apple). That said, this is Dawn's show, and when she turns the volume down and allows the spotlight to linger on just her, as she does on the Jacques Brel-esque "Back to the Barracks," the lovely, string-laden "Why Did You Marry," and the intimate closer "I Just Wanted You to Get Old," it's easy to see why the Kickstarter fund that proved so invaluable to the record's creation received five times more than it asked for. ~ James Christopher Monger

Professional Reviews

Q (Magazine) (p.96) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[H]er witty story songs are wrapped in a casing of frisky jazz and light blues, immaculately played nd recorded..."