Daisy Jones & The Six – AURORA (Super Deluxe) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Daisy Jones & The Six – AURORA (Super Deluxe) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:34:12 minutes | 1,91 GB | Genre: Rock
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Daisy Jones & The Six Aurora Super Deluxe Album is set to release on December 1st on vinyl, cassette, and CD including 14 new tracks that have never been released on a physical format. The 14 new tracks include live, acoustic demos, and reimagined versions of hit singles “Look At Us Now (Honeycomb)” by Marcus Mumford & Maren Morris as well as “Let Me Down Easy” by Demi Lovato. The show Daisy Jones & The Six was the #1 most streamed show on Amazon upon launch and recently received 9 Emmy nominations. “Aurora” was produced by GRAMMY®-nominated writer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Blake Mills (Bob Dylan, Fiona Apple, Alabama Shakes, John Legend, Andrew Bird, Perfume Genius).

Set in the 1970s and loosely inspired by Fleetwood Mac, Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling novel Daisy Jones & the Six is the fictional account of the rise and fall of a prominent blues-rock band as revealed through interviews. An Amazon Studios miniseries adaptation was already underway by the time the book was published in 2019, with producers enlisting Blake Mills to construct the band’s sound. To write the songs (25 in all appear in the series), Mills enlisted help from none other than Jackson Browne as well as figures like Phoebe Bridgers, Marcus Mumford, Madison Cunningham, and Roger Manning, among many others. The emerging 11-song soundtrack album doubles as the group’s imagined debut, Aurora. It was performed by the show’s band-camp-trained cast, led by Riley Keough as Daisy and Sam Claflin as Billy Dunne. (Suki Waterhouse, Josh Whitehouse, Will Harrison, and Sebastian Chacon round out the group’s TV lineup, which diverges slightly from the book in number and by instrument.) Together with Mills’ production, the star-studded writing team manage to settle into a dual-vocal-heavy MOR sound that’s credible as the output of a single band at the same time that it touches on Laurel Canyon, Nashville, and, if fleetingly, Fleetwood Mac itself, as on the chorus of soft rock standout “Let Me Down Easy,” a descendent of “Dreams.” Another highlight is the rousing “Regret Me,” which almost evokes the Heartbreakers with its efficient hooks, gritty guitar tones, organ, live energy, and slight affectation by Claflin. They let loose again with the bluesy garage rock of the Keough-led “More Fun to Miss,” while quasi-acoustic ballads like “Two Against Three” and the trite “No Words” (“There ain’t no words for the song I’m trying to write/Oh, I just don’t know the words, babe, for what I’m trying to write/Everything I’ve tried so far, babe, doesn’t feel right”) can seem more like sentimental, narrative-serving fare — not that that’s necessarily a bad thing, considering their purposes. In the end, while Aurora plays out more like a cast album than unearthed period vinyl, it does hover on the spectrum, and the actor/musicians come to play while songs suggest the intended period Los Angeles music scene, if they rarely stand strong enough on their own to create their own legend. – Marcy Donelson

Tracklist:
1-1. Daisy Jones & The Six – Aurora (03:25)
1-2. Daisy Jones & The Six – Let Me Down Easy (03:24)
1-3. Daisy Jones & The Six – Kill You To Try (05:12)
1-4. Daisy Jones & The Six – Two Against Three (03:52)
1-5. Daisy Jones & The Six – Look At Us Now (Honeycomb) (05:32)
1-6. Daisy Jones & The Six – Regret Me (03:16)
1-7. Daisy Jones & The Six – You Were Gone (04:16)
1-8. Daisy Jones & The Six – More Fun To Miss (02:52)
1-9. Daisy Jones & The Six – Please (03:24)
1-10. Daisy Jones & The Six – The River (04:54)
1-11. Daisy Jones & The Six – No Words (04:16)
1-12. Daisy Jones & The Six – Look At Us Now (Honeycomb) (Acoustic Demo) (03:51)
1-13. Daisy Jones & The Six – Regret Me (Acoustic Demo) (03:14)
1-14. Daisy Jones & The Six – Let Me Down Easy (Acoustic Demo) (03:23)
1-15. Daisy Jones & The Six – The River (Acoustic Demo) (04:52)
1-16. Daisy Jones & The Six – Look At Us Now (Honeycomb) (Live from Soldier Field – 1977) (03:22)
1-17. The Dunne Brothers – Look Me In The Eye (feat. Daisy Jones) (Live from Diamond Head Festival – 1975) (03:39)
1-18. Daisy Jones & The Six – The River (feat. Simone Jackson) (Live from Soldier Field – 1977) (05:15)
1-19. Daisy Jones – Ooh La La (Cassette Singalong) (02:26)
1-20. Daisy Jones & The Six – Aurora (Live from SNL) (03:21)
1-21. Daisy Jones – It Was Always You (03:39)
1-22. The Dunne Brothers – Flip The Switch (Eddie’s Version) (02:48)
1-23. Daisy Jones & The Six – Susie Q (Live) (02:31)
1-24. Maren Morris – Look At Us Now (Honeycomb) (03:52)
1-25. Demi Lovato – Let Me Down Easy (03:24)

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