Renmin Park
General
| Jun 2010
Reviews
Gabe
Reviewed 2010-11-22
Reviewed 2010-11-22
First of several travel-based albums to be released by Cowboy Junkies, this album has flavors of southern China, where M. Timmins’ family spent a few months. The general tone is slow and languid, as most CJ albums are, but there are some unexpectedly lively, noisy, and grinding tracks and sections of songs. A nice step forward for a long-lived band.
1. Park bandstand brass band in the (titular, “People’s”) park, children singing
2. Slow folk song that you would expect from Cowboy Junkies
3. Slow, driving, noisy, churning dirge that you would hardly expect
4. Catchy pop song with a helping of rock ‘n’ noise
5. Plodding
6. Slow but swinging, nice textures
7. Mysterious, beautiful
8. Creepy echo effects that have no set temporal relationship to the vocals being echoed, they just drift before, after, around, over …
9. Distorted Chinese-flavored pop music
10. Run-of-the-mill mid-tempo
11. Slow country twang
12. Slowly slumping forward, Chinese vocals and instruments give this track the most “flavor” of any of these travel-influenced tracks
13. Limp musically but evocative lyrically
14. Teensy phone dial tune followed by “Sorry, no answer” message
1. Park bandstand brass band in the (titular, “People’s”) park, children singing
2. Slow folk song that you would expect from Cowboy Junkies
3. Slow, driving, noisy, churning dirge that you would hardly expect
4. Catchy pop song with a helping of rock ‘n’ noise
5. Plodding
6. Slow but swinging, nice textures
7. Mysterious, beautiful
8. Creepy echo effects that have no set temporal relationship to the vocals being echoed, they just drift before, after, around, over …
9. Distorted Chinese-flavored pop music
10. Run-of-the-mill mid-tempo
11. Slow country twang
12. Slowly slumping forward, Chinese vocals and instruments give this track the most “flavor” of any of these travel-influenced tracks
13. Limp musically but evocative lyrically
14. Teensy phone dial tune followed by “Sorry, no answer” message
Recent airplay
Stranger Here
Everyday Commotion — Feb 04, 2011
Stranger Here
Daydream Disaster — Jan 27, 2011
Stranger Here
Music Casserole — Jan 15, 2011
Stranger Here, Intro
Daydream Disaster — Jan 13, 2011
Stranger Here
Time Traveler - Best of 2010 — Jan 04, 2011
A Walk In The Park
Music Casserole — Jan 01, 2011
Charting
2010-11-28 — 2011-01-30
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Jan 30 | 1 |
| Jan 16 | 2 |
| Jan 9 | 1 |
| Jan 2 | 5 |
| Dec 26 | 1 |
| Dec 19 | 2 |
| Dec 12 | 3 |
Track listing
| 1. | Intro | ||
| 2. | Renmin Park | ||
| 3. | Sir Francis Bacon At The Net | ||
| 4. | Stranger Here | ||
| 5. | A Few Bags Of Grain | ||
| 6. | I Cannot Sid Sadly By Your Side | ||
| 7. | (You've Got To Get) A Good Heart | ||
| 8. | Cicadas | ||
| 9. | Interlude | ||
| 10. | My Fail | ||
| 11. | Little Dark Heart | ||
| 12. | A Walk In The Park | ||
| 13. | Renmin Park (Revisited) | ||
| 14. | Coda |