Jennifer Castle – Monarch Season (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 28:29 minutes | 339 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paradise of Bachelors
Jennifer Castle’s sixth full-length record, the moon-suffused Monarch Season—an album as delicate and diaphanous as its namesake butterfly—stands, in a literal sense, as her first proper “solo” album, performed alone in her coastal kitchen, windows open to the insects and the wind and the reflection of the moon on Lake Erie, entirely without human accompaniment (though a chorus of crickets provides rich interstitial support throughout.)
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Jennifer Castle – Angels of Death (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 34:42 minutes | 519 MB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paradise of Bachelors
There are excellent records about death, dying, grief and goodbyes — from Neil Young’s “Tonight’s the Night” and David Bowie’s “Blackstar” to The Antlers’ “Hospice” and Gord Downie’s “Introduce Yerself.” Jennifer Castle’s “Angels of Death” is an ethereal, deeply poetic take on the subject — nimble, sure-footed and beautifully written and performed.
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