- rock, indie rock, folk rock
- 51 min
- 11 tracks
- XL Recordings
Ash Wednesday is the debut studio album by singer songwriter Elvis Perkins, released on February 20, 2007, on XL Recordings. It is a chronologically sequenced album of songs written before and after the death of his mother, who died on 9/11. In a 2009 interview, Perkins states that the album "[has] been made out to be bleaker than it really is, [...] there were moments of hopefulness on Ash Wednesday too."
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Spare, grave, classical in form and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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Tracks
- A1While You Were Sleeping6:20
- A2All the Night Without Love3:11
- A3May Day!5:01
- A4Moon Woman II4:25
- A5It's Only Me3:59
- A6Emile's Vietnam in the Sky2:59
- B1Ash Wednesday6:31
- B2The Night & the Liquor4:44
- B3It's a Sad World After All4:12
- B4Sleep Sandwich4:11
- B5Good Friday5:18
11 tracks, 51 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Elvis Perkins
- Label
- XL Recordings
- Released
- February 20, 2007
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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