O'neil, Tara Jane / A Ways Away
Album: A Ways Away   Collection:General
Artist:O'neil, Tara Jane   Added:May 2009
Label:Krecs  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2009-08-09 Pull Date: 2009-10-11
Week Ending: Oct 11 Oct 4 Sep 27 Sep 20 Sep 6 Aug 30 Aug 23 Aug 16
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Recent Airplay
1. Jun 07, 2016: does radio suck?
Beast, Go Along, Pearl Into Sand
4. Dec 26, 2015: Meow Lazy Meow
Continumeow!
2. Dec 27, 2015: Meow
Beast, Go Along
5. Apr 20, 2015: Shytown
Pearl Into Sand
3. Dec 26, 2015: Pre-Meow
Beast, Go Along
6. Jan 29, 2015: Meow
Dig In

Album Review
Adam Pearson
Reviewed 2009-07-29
Dreamy indie folk with an ambient slant. This is O’Neil’s first record with K Records (she is touring with Mt. Eerie and Karl Blau), but this is not the standard lo-fi, gritty, experimental pop you would expect from K. This is more ambient and spaced-out than the standard indie folk stuff, too, and features looping effects and guitar manipulation, rather than mandolin or acoustic guitars. Record label suggests RIYL Cat Power and Smog but I would say this is more along the lines of Marisa Nadler, Jasmina Maschina, or Grouper. This is mostly night-time music for sad people who love to wallow in their melancholy. A Ways Away is a moody, sweet, melodic record with simple, well-written songs, and lovely guitar tones and fuzz. Members from Ida guest on the record. Tara Jane O’Neil also does visual art. No FCCs.

1. Lightly chiming percussion, dreamy backing vocals, electric guitar is a little droney and repetitive. Track does not seem nearly as long as it is. (5:16)
2. Strings open, very pretty, reverbed guitars and light, heavenly vocals. (2:46)
*3. Some sort of drone opens, rhythmic track with ringing notes, and smooth guitar work, almost electronic/glitch percussion. (3:40)
4. Distant, effects-drenched vocals, nostalgic track, percussion is very soft and clatters along, tense guitar outro. (3:35)
5. Maybe this one sounds a little like Cat Power, strings on this one (as opposed to guitar loops), kind of a straightforward ballad, sad. (5:04)
*6. Instrumental. Really dreamy, wandering intro, gorgeous… like drifting about an abandoned cornfield in the pitch black. Droney, circular, low-end hum, feedback comes in, ends in some dissonance, fades into 7. (3:22)
*7. Continues with the ambience of the last track, cello notes are struck in time, strings, bluesy electric guitar, light tambourine strikes. Reminds me of Yo La Tengo a little bit. (3:56)
8. More straightforward folk pop construction, melancholy, sweet backing vocals, another good one. (3:00)
9. Light, breezy backing vocals howl around a pretty guitar melody. This one’s a little lo-fi. (2:17)
*10. Instrumental. Fuzzy feedback opens the track, layers of more guitar effects and humming drones envelop the track. No percussion, just beautiful, dreamy, hazy interweaving fuzz. (4:17)


Track Listing
1. Dig In   6. Pearl Into Sand
2. In Tall Grass   7. Beast, Go Along
3. Drowning   8. A Vertiginous One
4. A New Binding   9. Biwa
5. Howl   10. The Drowning Electric