McKinley
Goner
© 2003 McKinley (678277057227)
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This is music for running away from home and leaving everything you own in the yard. Sweet, kind of quiet, but not at all meek. Sexy, strange little stories, a curious conversational voice and great pop songs.
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McKinley grew up in Anchorage, Alaska where she spent a lot of time pretending she was a cowboy or a secret agent. She then went to a girl's Catholic high school in California where she learned "Hail Mary" in Spanish and how to gracefully scale a chain link fence without snagging her pleated skirt.
After earning a mechanical engineering degree, McKinley lived in London for almost a year, and then rode a bicycle alone through Israel, mumbling and humming to herself in the same desert that made those prophets that she learned about in Catholic school come undone. She picked up a copy of Franny and Zooey in a Tel Aviv bookstore and stayed up all night reading it in a scary hotel.
On the porch of that hotel in her underwear, she decided she would make something out of the humming in her head. She bought a ticket to Seattle and began writing her first songs there in a tiny apartment with no furniture. She came to Portland next because it seemed like the right size.
In Portland, McKinley gathered the musicians and momentum she needed to record her first six-song EP. A local label, Burnside Records, then helped her record six more songs for a full-length CD. These first songs are rich, quiet and spooky. The music editor of the Oregonian dubbed her style "chamber pop" because of the use of violin, cello, and orchestral percussion in virtually every song and because of the close-in personal quality of the lyrics and recordings.
She is now playing with a band called Dirty Martini (www.dirtymartinimusic.com) and writing a musical about God, physics, death, and love called "Gracie and the Atom" due out in 2008.
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Great toons, need more
author: Jimmy Z.Wow!!!!!! This has got to be my favorite CD ever. How come we don't know more about her. Goner is awesome. The lyric "on a holiday from you" is such a poke in the heart with a dull knife. Ansterdam is another tear jerker. I wouldn't call this album emo though. She sings too in toon and the arrangements are way too cool. I can't wait 'til she does another album away from Dirty Martini. That band leaves me yawning... and depressed. McKinley, despite some dark lyrics here and there, leaves me feeling pretty good about life... Just like lemonade.
fantastic!
author: bill c.Every CD she does is better than the last - and this one's in continuous rotation on my ipod!
My new favorite CD
author: RThis is an awesome album. One of the few CDs I own that I want to play all the way through, and when it's over hit play and hear the whole thing again.
Best album I've worked on...
author: Bob StarkOk, so it's unusual for one of the hired guns to write a review but now that I've work 20 years in the industry it's not that often that an album comes along that supercedes the previous best. This is it! It was a great pleasure to work with McK on this album. She is a highly dedicated songwriter whose sense of lyric and melody shine on this album. Have no fear in purchasing this album. You will enjoy!!
everyone should have one
author: SarahA friend bought it for me...I listened to it once through...and bought three more for three other friends. That's how good it is.
conjures sweet yearnings of something lost without being melancholy.
author: Tat RhudiThis CD conjures sweet yearnings for something lost - without being melancholy. I am deeply moved by this album unlike any other I've experinced. I've been listening to it constantly since I received it.
Can't stop listening to it; may need an intervention.
author: Liz M.This CD is a departure from McKinley's previous recordings in that it's a bit more upbeat, but, like the others, every song stands on its own as powerful and hugely listenable -- possibly insanely addictive. It's a must-have for any indie pop afficionado, or for anyone who wants something different but slightly familiar.