Here With Me Jennifer O'Connor
Here With Me OLE-787 2008-08-19
Jennifer recorded her new LP/CD ‘Here With Me’ (OLE 787-1,2) earlier this year with John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth) at Brooklyn’s Headgear Studios. It’s a breezier, more upbeat work than 2006’s fantastic ‘Over The Mountain, Across The Valley and Back To The Stars’, but I’d be lying if I told you the new album packed any less of an emotional wallop. Jennifer’s songs have never before sounded this crafted, or hit the listener with such immediacy.

Backed by a crack backing trio of Jon Langmead, Michael Broadlieb and Michael Strandberg (and joined, briefly, by Hold Steady keyboardist Franz Nicolay), O’Connor tackles her most evocative pile of relationship-tunes with something approaching surgical precision. Over the past 6 years, Jennifer’s gotten scary good at this sort of thing, so much so that most other contenders for the hypothetical Nobel prize for Witty Pop Songs W/ Heart are either former members of this label’s roster (we’re thinking Manning/Phair/Daniel but if you wanna nominate someone more contemporary, please go right ahead) or they’ve already been embalmed in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.

Tracklisting

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1. The Church And The River BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
2. Always In Your Mind BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
3. Daylight Out BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
4. Valley Road 86 BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
5. Here With Me BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
6. Credit In The Cost BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
7. Highway Miles BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
8. Landmine BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
9. Days Became Months BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
10. End Of The Hall BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
11. Xmas Party BUY MP3 BUY FLAC
12. Next To Mine BUY MP3 BUY FLAC


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