by Sarah McCoy
Release Date: 25 January 2019
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Blue Note
£24.99
Sarah McCoy Blood Siren Limited Vinyl 2LP Set
Overview:
"Sarah McCoy spent a good deal of her twenties playing piano and singing in fly-ridden, hotter-than-hell New Orleans dives—places whose chaos matched the On the Road life she’d been living since the age of twenty. Now, at 33, she carries on a tradition perfected by Tom Waits, Amy Winehouse, Leon Russell, and Janis Joplin, who turned the wreckage of embattled lives into poetry.
Blood Siren, her major-label debut, captures Sarah’s haunted moan, a sound that both chills and touches the heart. The songs, which she wrote, are as intimate and unguarded as diary entries.
Producers Chilly Gonzales and Renaud Letang create a stark midnight atmosphere. There’s Sarah on piano and guitar, touches of cello and celesta, some electronic sounds, and plenty of silence, along with a voice that sounds just as it does when she’s alone in her room. All this rawness is a world away from the Auto-Tuned, robotic gloss of contemporary pop."
Featured Tracks:
1. New Orleans
2. Boogieman
3. Hot Shot
4. Pistol Whipped
5. Someday
6. Mamma's Song
7. The Death of a Blackbird
8. I Miss Her
9. Fearless
10. Red Hot
11. Ugly Dub (Bonus Track)
12. Devil's Prospects
13. Show's Over