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| Marios... |
 Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:57 am |
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Amy Speace uses phrases like "it was kind of an exorcism" and "I
spilled blood all over this project" to describe her sophomore album
on Wildflower Records titled 'The Killer In Me' (out June 30th). The
follow-up to her 2006 breakthrough 'Songs For Bright Street', 'Killer'
finds the New York-based singer/songwriter forging into deeper, darker
lyrical and musical terrain, borne largely out of the dissolution of
her 10-year marriage.
Speace wrote the songs on 'Killer' during a period self-imposed
isolation in a rural cabin in the Catskills- a cathartic experience
that helped her cope with her marital separation.
The rural setting, Speace explains, "forced me to sit with a lot of
silence, fear and confusion and make a kind of peace with them by
writing songs to keep from going crazy. That's when the album started
making sense to me and became a whole different thing. Something
shifted when I realized what was going on in the world outside
mirrored what was going on inside of me, and I wanted to write songs
that bridged that divide."
The 12 songs on 'Killer' move through emotions from pain ("Blue
Horizon"), codependency ("The Killer In Me"), remorse ("Would I Lie"
"Dirty Little Secret"), regret ("I Met My Love"), to hope ("This
Love").
Musically, Amy Speace embraces the lyric-focused emotions of folk
music, but breaks the genre's mold with bellowing horns and organ and
twangy electric guitars. Again, Speace is joined by longtime producer
and lead guitarist James Mastro (of Bongos/Health and Happiness Show
fame) and her band the Tearjerks (guitarist Rich Feridun, bassist Matt
Lindsey and drummer Jagoda). English rock icon Ian Hunter is new to
the crew lending vocals to two songs.
A New Jersey transplant, Speace originally had her sites set on
becoming a playwright and actor after college, touring with the
National Shakespeare Company and teaching in NYC. She taught herself
to play guitar, started writing songs, and hit the road booking as
many shows across the country as possible while raising money to
record her self-released 2002 album 'Fable'.
A SXSW performance caught the eye of Judy Collins and in 2006 Collins'
Wildflower Records released Speace's debut 'Songs For Bright Street'.
The album grabbed the attention of industry tastemakers including
WFUV's John Platt, while No Depression said, "Amy Speace has one of
those fetching voices, the kind that taps you on the shoulder and
motions seductively for you to follow it around corner after dark
corner. You don't know where you're going to end up or how you'll ever
find your way back, but that doesn't matter right now: you're enjoying
the trip." |
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