Rachael Yamagata + Fine Line

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Fine Line Music Cafe
November 11 2011 at 8:00 PM

Venue Info:
Fine Line Music Cafe
318 First Avenue
Minneapolis, MN

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Interview: Rachael Yamagata

Here's a little snippet from the MTV interview with Rachael Yamagata:

Saccharine pop ditties about love and relationships may dominate the airwaves, but few of them can capture the subtle bittersweet nuances of love lost or longing as much as Rachael Yamagata's works.

Perhaps you first stumbled upon her intimate piano-driven ballads on hit TV shows such as The O.C. and One Tree Hill. Familiar favourites such as "Be Be Your Love" and "Reason Why" are testament to the poignancy and staying power of Yamagata's 2004 debut Happenstance. The album also yielded the hit single "Worn Me Down," which made it to the U.S. Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks [...]

MTV Asia caught up with the talented songstress before her Singapore concert for a heartfelt chat on first love, the bane of musical comparisons and her devotion to critically acclaimed fan-favourite TV series Lost.

What has changed from Happenstance to Elephants…Teeth Sinking Into Heart ?

I think the production on this record is very different. The sentiment is darker; it has a richness to it that comes with experience, travelling, age, relationships, and with more of the work roller-coaster. There's much more time being spoken for, there is loneliness to that travelling aspect, and I think that affected the evolution of the lyrics. The production got very intense, as I was working with new producers and recording in an isolated environment.

Read it in full here.

MV: Rachael Yamagata - Elephants

Here's the video for Elephants from Rachael Yamagata off her new album Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart due out October 7th.



Info on the new album from Wikipedia:

Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart is the second full-length album by Rachael Yamagata. It will be released by Warner Bros. Records on 7 October 2008 in the U.S. (International release dates are yet to be announced.)

The album is split into two parts/CDs: Elephants, which will feature a darker, more vulnerable and intimate tone, is said to be more familiar with Yamagata's debut, Happenstance; while Teeth Sinking Into Heart, shows a grittier, more cynical side of the artist, who has described it as "this mix of 'Pulp Fiction' surf guitar, PJ Harvey [and] Tom Waits-flavored rock tunes which would be great to play live but ... just developed into this entity that would break the beauty of ('Elephants')." The album will contain fifteen tracks (one of them hidden), the first ten appearing in Elephants, and the last five in Teeth Sinking Into Heart.

Most of the album was produced by Mike Mogis, known for previous works with artists such as Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley, and The Faint, among others. John Alagia, who produced Yamagata's first album, Happenstance, has also produced two of the tracks in this record ("What If I Leave", and "Horizon").

For more on Rachael Yamagata check out her site.

h/t sylvie/hyphenmagazine