Howie Beck

Howie Beck Artist: Howie Beck
Label: True North
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 620638032626
EAN: 0620638032626
ASIN: B0002IVTAA


Release Date: 2004-01-01

Howie Beck


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Tracks:

  1. Alice
  2. Sometimes (She's So Far In)
  3. My Low
  4. Zombie Girl
  5. Don't Be Afraid
  6. Books Beside Her Bed
  7. How Do You Feel
  8. We Waited
  9. Everybody Sold Out
  10. Please
  11. I Need Light
  12. Floating
  13. Lay Down

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Album Description

2004 album from Toronto bred singer/songwriter favorably compared to Joe Pernice (the Pernice Brothers) & Elliott Smith. 13 tracks. True North. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Capital W, capital O, capital W. .......2006-10-01

In the multi-instrumentalist home-recording pop-loving-genius tradition of folks like Jason Falkner, Jon Brion and Elliott Smith, Howie Beck writes gorgeous pop tunes that will melt even the most embittered hearts. The arrangements are subtle, the lyrics bittersweet, the melodies perfect, and the breathy, plaintive vocals will instantly suggest a myriad of other bands you love, from the Zombies, to the Pernice Brothers, to the Red House Painters. But Howie's songs are his own, and they are fantastic.

I admit it's a little confusing: there are about 6 separate listings in Amazon for only 2 different Howie Beck CDs, all on different labels, released successively from 2001-2006. But after hearing this, his latest, self-titled release, I'm glad there are so many different labels who want to take a stab at bringing these tunes to the masses. I wonder, however, if the masses can appreciate, or even deserve, something this good.

5 out of 5 stars An understated classic.......2005-04-21

Following on from 2002's Hollow, this album is simply stunning. There's something gentle and undeniably warm about Beck's songs, from the fragile, desolate beauty of Lay Down to the swaying pedal steel of Zombie Girl. With an easy picking style his guitar and voice combine perfectly, brass and strings employed subtly to great effect on tracks like Alice and Floating. With lyrics that lull you then bite with deliciously dark wit, Beck manages to be both bittersweet and emotively intense without ever succumbing to all out melancholia - it's an album so perfectly crafted it can't help but a smile on your face.

5 out of 5 stars

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  4. Mayday ~ King Cobb Steelie
  5. Ceci N'Est Pas Pop ~ Tigerlillies
  6. 10 Great Songs & An Ok Voice ~ Jimmy Nail
  7. The Best of Fun Boy Three ~ Fun Boy Three
  8. See Me Ridin' ~ Martin Rev
  9. As, Bs & Rarities ~ CCS
  10. Live: 1984 ~ Phil Lynott

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My Message ~ Tamika Williams-Clark

Chill With Me ~ Adrian Bal

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Quebec Love la Collection ~ Robert Charlebois

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