Heal for the Honey

Description

Heal for the Honey is the full-length debut album by the American singer, songwriter, and keyboardist Brooke Waggoner, independently released on her own label Swoon Moon Music September 2008. (Waggoner self-released her debut effort, the Fresh Pair of Eyes EP, the previous year.) The album was produced and recorded by Chad Howat at Fireside Studio, Quad Studio, and Bottom Bunk Studio in Nashville, Tennessee; with Brooke Waggoner co-producing. Mixed by Howat.

Nashville indie darling Brooke Waggoner‘s full-length proper Heal for the Honey embeds shimmering piano-based pop in ornate arrangements. Waggoner‘s wispy paper-thin alto is woven into richly produced chamber music. By leaps and bounds, the 24-year-old stuffs triple-rhymes and tongue-twisters into syncopated soundscapes. And throughout Heal for the Honey, Waggoner‘s surgeon-like precision becomes its own form of fugue free-jazz.

Opening track, «Lungs Speed, Lungs Sped» builds upon a cascade of slurred notes and intricate string arrangements. Eventually, the music swells and blends into a something that on the surface sounds beyond Waggoner‘s range of control. It’s a moment of pop bliss. Elsewhere, Waggoner mines distorted synthesizer effects and spaced-out piano grooves on «Tender Mending», an exercise best described as disco parlor music.

Lyrically, the record’s end finds Waggoner in traversed terrain, offering obliquely constructed God complexes best suited for an Eckhart Tolle self-help book. (“All day long, I heal for the honey,” she sings on the title track.) It’s been said that urban bohemians will not respond to subtle Christendom in Ms. Waggoner‘s music. Ultimately, it’s their loss. Heal for the Honey proves that Waggoner is one of the most inventive artists to come through Nashville in years. [Joey Hood, American Songwriter magazine, September 2008]

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CD tracklist:

01. Lungs Speed, Lungs Sped – 3:52
02. Beaut – 3:31
03. Heal For The Honey – 4:15
04. Young Friend – 3:20
05. Tender Mending – 3:00
06. Daylover – 3:06
07. Live For The Sounds – 2:34
08. Colorbloods – 5:15
09. The Wrong – 5:01
10. Come Love, See My Hands – 12:01

Note: Two minutes of silence after “Come Love, See My Hands”, a secret track entitled “Fresh Pair of Eyes (Eyes o’ Eyes Remix)”. The song is a remixed version of a song originally released on Waggoner’s Fresh Pair of Eyes EP. Originally released on CD only, but reissued on vinyl LP the following year by Swoon Moon Music.

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