Patrick Watson – Love Songs For Robots (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Patrick Watson – Love Songs For Robots (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:33 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Domino Recording Co

Love Songs For Robots is the highly anticipated fifth record from Patrick Watson. The new album is the follow up to Watson’s 2012 release Adventures In Your Own Backyard, which received widespread critical acclaim. The ambitious, evocative new music was recorded at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles and Pierre Marchand Studio in Montreal. It’s a work of fragile beauty, offering dramatic flourishes and subtle, atmospheric tension ultimately anchored by Watson’s singularly stunning voice.

Unlike Patrick Watson’s previous release, the home-recorded Adventures in Your Own Backyard, Love Songs for Robots was recorded at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles and Studio Pierre Marchand in Montreal. While the result may not be quite as sparse or intimate, despite a much shorter list of instruments and collaborators, it’s at least as intense and melancholic. Also unlike Adventures, synths are featured prominently on the record. Love Songs for Robots’ overriding emotion is one of yearning, with minor keys, sobbing electric guitars including slides, and wistful, dissonant synths, such as on the eerie “Good Morning Mr. Wolf” (“Getting tired of wasting worries/Why not let the worries worry for themselves for a change”). Similarly, emotive vocals and guitar affect the stunning, distorted blues lament “Turn into the Noise.” Bending, humming pitches from all instrumentation create a more ambient setting for the album and an otherworldly effect, like a fictional chamber pop band from the Twin Peaks universe. The elegant, meandering “Hearts” mixes acoustic and electric tones to slowly develop a sweet folk tune into a driving, modulating art rock piece, and whether on the Abbey Road-like “Grace” or the beautifully atmospheric “In Circles,” Watson’s wispy falsetto blends with mournful guitar like a sibling act with a chip on its shoulders. In the end, Love Songs for Robots is well represented by its title: weird, heartfelt, haunting, stimulating, and unexpectedly sultry; it holds much for humans to appreciate, too.

Tracklist:

1. Patrick Watson – Love Songs For Robots (03:37)
2. Patrick Watson – Good Morning Mr. Wolf (05:56)
3. Patrick Watson – Bollywood (06:18)
4. Patrick Watson – Hearts (04:52)
5. Patrick Watson – Grace (04:43)
6. Patrick Watson – In Circles (02:16)
7. Patrick Watson – Turn Into the Noise (06:42)
8. Patrick Watson – Alone In This World (02:42)
9. Patrick Watson – Know That You Know (07:18)
10. Patrick Watson – Places You Will Go (05:03)

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