Reds, Pinks & Purples, The / Unwishing Well
Album: | Unwishing Well | Collection: | A-File | |
Artist: | Reds, Pinks & Purples, The | Added: | Sep 2024 | |
Label: | Slumberland Records |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2024-10-26 | Pull Date: | 2025-01-25 |
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Week Ending: | Nov 24 | Nov 17 | Nov 10 | Nov 3 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Dec 04, 2024: | KZSU Time Traveler
We Only Hear the Bad Things People Say, What's Going on With Ordinary People? |
4. | Nov 09, 2024: | Music Casserole
Dead Stars in Your Eyes |
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2. | Nov 22, 2024: | KZSU Time Traveler
Unwishing Well |
5. | Nov 08, 2024: | KZSU Time Traveler
Unwishing Well |
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3. | Nov 15, 2024: | KZSU Time Traveler
What's Going on With Ordinary People? |
6. | Nov 01, 2024: | KZSU Time Traveler
What's Going on With Ordinary People? |
Album Review
DJ Away
Reviewed 2024-10-16
Reviewed 2024-10-16
LOCAL! Catchy, wistful, immaculate guitar pop. This is the wildly prolific project of longtime San Francisco musician Glenn Donaldson, and his romantically melancholy songs are perfectly suited to walking around the foggy outer avenues. Like his previous albums, pillowy guitar and synth textures serve as the bed for dour but deeply felt lyrics about the Bay Area grind and the plights of working artists. RIYL: the Smiths, the Go-Betweens, Felt, other Slumberland Records artists. Favorites: 1, 2, 4, 6, 9. No FCCs detected.
1. *(3:44)—Mid-tempo, floaty and gentle but propulsive.
2. *(3:02)—Mid-tempo. Watery eveningtime music. Melodica melody?
3. (3:02)—Slow. Soft guitar strumming.
4. *(4:29)—Very slow, no drums. Impassioned singing, ripples of distorted guitar. Pensive and lovely.
5. (3:53)—Medium-slow, with dense layers of synth and distorted guitar. "The market makes demands we can't understand." Long coda.
6. *(2:43)—Medium-slow. Lush, with a swaggering rhythm and prominent acoustic guitar strumming. This could've been a hit in the UK around 1990.
7. (2:30)—Mid-tempo. Pretty and strummy.
8. (2:57)—Medium-slow. Pretty chord progression, an easygoing majesty. "Are you the public art no one wanted / standing in the park undaunted?"
9. *(3:26)—Mid-tempo, subtle but insistent beat. Prominent synth. Soft but danceable.
10. (6:03)—Slow instrumental. No drums. Lonely electric guitar strumming with curlicuing guitar melodies on top.
1. *(3:44)—Mid-tempo, floaty and gentle but propulsive.
2. *(3:02)—Mid-tempo. Watery eveningtime music. Melodica melody?
3. (3:02)—Slow. Soft guitar strumming.
4. *(4:29)—Very slow, no drums. Impassioned singing, ripples of distorted guitar. Pensive and lovely.
5. (3:53)—Medium-slow, with dense layers of synth and distorted guitar. "The market makes demands we can't understand." Long coda.
6. *(2:43)—Medium-slow. Lush, with a swaggering rhythm and prominent acoustic guitar strumming. This could've been a hit in the UK around 1990.
7. (2:30)—Mid-tempo. Pretty and strummy.
8. (2:57)—Medium-slow. Pretty chord progression, an easygoing majesty. "Are you the public art no one wanted / standing in the park undaunted?"
9. *(3:26)—Mid-tempo, subtle but insistent beat. Prominent synth. Soft but danceable.
10. (6:03)—Slow instrumental. No drums. Lonely electric guitar strumming with curlicuing guitar melodies on top.
Track Listing
1. | What's Going on With Ordinary People? (3:43) | 6. | Dead Stars in Your Eyes (2:43) | |||
2. | Learning to Love a Band (3:02) | 7. | Nothing Between the Lines at All (2:29) | |||
3. | Unwishing Well (3:02) | 8. | Public Art (2:56) | |||
4. | Faith in Daydreaming Youth (4:29) | 9. | We Only Hear the Bad Things People Say (3:26) | |||
5. | Your Worst Song Is Your Greatest Hit (3:52) | 10. | Goodbye Bobby (6:03) |