Walkabouts, The / Nighttown (Deluxe Edition)
Album: Nighttown (Deluxe Edition)   Collection:General
Artist:Walkabouts, The   Added:Jan 2015
Label:Glitterhouse  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2015-01-18 Pull Date: 2015-03-22
Week Ending: Mar 22 Mar 15 Mar 8 Feb 15 Feb 8 Feb 1 Jan 25
Airplays: 2 2 1 2 1 3 4

Recent Airplay
1. Feb 27, 2021: Rebroadcast: Music Casserole
Heartless
4. Mar 19, 2015: Meow
These Proud Streets
2. Mar 26, 2015: Meow
Lift Your Burdens Up
5. Mar 14, 2015: BravoMarco Variety Show
Unwind
3. Mar 21, 2015: Music Casserole
Heartless
6. Mar 12, 2015: Meow
Immaculate

Album Review
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2015-01-13
Re-release from Seattle band’s 1997 release that hit the perfect dark romantic dramatic sound that Nick Cave and The Tindersticks could only dream of. Folk Americana, as was being dished out late 80’s, 90’s (see also early Cowboy Junkies, Mazzy Star, Tarnation). Female and male vocs trade off/harmonize, guitars strum and twang and heavy string arrangements prevail. Cinematic and dramatic this is high end stuff from an under appreciated band. The woman starred in a duet with Tindersticks and so much of this smacks of them. Features a second disc that contains demo versions of a handful which I personally prefer as they are rougher, less arranged, polished.

1) FCC
2) (4:13) mid paced drama, arrangements the works
3) (4:59) male vocs in front, epic pop feel
4) (4:36) fem vocs, sultry dark
5) (4:30) fem vocs, poppier feel
6)* (6:00) male vocs, hooky line "I'll say a prayer for you", dark and mysterious
7)* (4:05) different feel, more space rock than smokey lounge, nice, fem vocs
8) (1:05) interlude of keys, synth
9)* (5:33) fem vocs, sparse drama
10) (5:29) male vocs, slow drama with wood winds
11)* (3:42) fem vocs, hit quality, upbeat
12) (7:34) slow plod sad male vocs
13)* (2:44) duet, slow slow dark with bowed bass

Cd 2 (demos)

1) (8:11) same as track 12 above, less production
2)* (3:51) same as 11 above, uses a mellotron or synth instead of real strings, again rougher
3) (6:06) same as 10 above
4)* (2:51) contains noisy samples, low fi 4track feel, very different from rest with little to no vocs, and awesome
5) (2:46) track 13 above, slow sad plod

Track Listing
1. Follow Me An Angel   10. Slow Red Dawn
2. These Proud Streets   11. Harbour Lights
3. Tremble (Goes The Night)   12. Forever Gone
4. Unwind   13. Nightbirds
5. Lift Your Burdens Up   14. Forever Gone (Demo Version)
6. Prayer For You   15. Harbour Lights (Demo Version)
7. Immaculate   16. Slow Red Dawn (Demo Version)
8. Nocturno   17. Sanitorium Blues (Instrumental Version)
9. Heartless   18. Nightbirds (Demo Version)