SPOTTISWOODE & HIS ENEMIES: Salvation

Spottiswoode & His Enemies

Salvation

© 2008 Spottiswoode & His Enemies (700261219448)

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The band's most soulful and acoustic record to date - piano, mandolin, steel guitar, harmonies - with trademark moments of orchestral grandeur and unabashed rock'n'roll.

tracks

1 Muscle Man
2 Salvation
3 Please Don't Cry
4 Let The Cold Wind Blow
5 In The Pouring Rain
6 The Setting Sun
7 Chelsea Boys
8 I Can't See The Stars
9 Daddy Knows
10 Blinded
11 Someone Else's Scheme
12 Dirty Fingerprints
13 Troubadour
14 Gettin' Realistic
15 My Own Ayatollah
16 Thank You
17 At Last

notes

Spottiswoode grew up in London. He was a good boy.

He started playing guitar at the age of twelve. It took him about ten years to write a halfway decent tune. Since then he has written hundreds and hundreds.

At the end of the last millennium, he moved to New York City. The New Yorker calls him a “genius” and a “downtown ringleader.”

Spotty’s songs have been covered and recorded by numerous East Village and Williamsburg musicians, and featured in a variety of mainstream and independent films. Somehow he has been able to hold together a gang of seven of New York’s finest musicians, put out a string of acclaimed records, perform residencies at New York’s best clubs, play Lincoln Center, tour the country, cross the ocean… even though his band despises him.

It isn’t easy to describe the music they play. It depends on the night or the record. Spottiswoode composes songs of all genres, and his band of multi-instrumentalists is ready and willing to switch instruments and gears in the blink of an eye. A single show may include a delicate folk ballad, a balls-out rocker, a hilarious cabaret ditty, and a neo-gospel lament. But Spottiswoode cringes at the word “eclectic.” “We are expressionists!” he pleads.

Dan Reed of WXPN Radio put it this way: “Spottiswoode and his Enemies do something that few bands can do: evoke real emotions, sometimes several different ones in a single song. Spottiswoode himself is both funny and scary at the same time, and there is undeniably a major talent lurking behind the songs and the live show. Lotsa unexpected twists and turns, and lotsa soul.”

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  • salvation
    author: feldoh22

    this is amazing...excellent...bluesy folksy... reminds me of pink floyd a bit, and i reeeeally like them. and to think i heard this on npr? very hard to believe! all that money i have been paying through uncsam has finally paid off. this is sooooooo good i will be in nyc to check this for real.

  • Loving Life!
    author: Noel Williams

    The whole disc is vibrant and savory. Life is not so bad after you hear this one.

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