Clare And The Reasons - Arrow

Brooklyn-based Clare and the Reasons, fronted by collaborators Clare and Olivier
Manchon release their second album, Arrow, out February 8th on Fargo Records.
Arrow features a special guest appearance from Shara Worden of My Brightest
Diamond, and is the followup to their acclaimed debut LP, The Movie, which
included contributions from Van Dyke Parks and Sufjan Stevens.
Clare and the gang have spent the past two years touring around the world in
support of The Movie. Live, they have a steady list of contributors (the ‘Reasons’,
including members of The National and Beirut), with a lot of instruments– cellos,
violas, things to hit, kazoos, baby kotos, saws, recorders.
It took a bit of wood, nails and many blankets to make Arrow in a recording tent
built in the Ditmas Park (Brooklyn) apartment of Clare and the Reasons’ neighbor,
friend and engineer, Alex Venguer. Clare and the Reasons deliver an assortment
of meticulously constructed and arranged songs, most written by Clare in her
very own kitchen, arranged by Olivier in the living room with two cats by his side,
and recorded with surgical precision with the help of “Reason” Bob Hart.
Walking the line between musical maturity and sophistication and primal, childlike
musical instincts, Arrow floats in both worlds, comfortably.

Tracks: All The Wine / Ooh You Hurt Me So / Our Team Is Grand / You Got Time
/ That’s All / Mellifera / You Getting Me / Kyoto Nights / This Is The Story /
Perdue A Paris

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