The Gold String Devon Sproule SKU: TAR071LP Barcode: 5052442009887 16.00 £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Tin Angel Released Date: 24th March 2017 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Devon Sproule’s “Gold String” is North American music with weirdo roots. Recorded in three different Canadian provinces — Yukon, Ontario, and Nova Scotia — the short, lush LP features backing from Toronto dream-poppers Bernice. The deep, sparse “Drawing Circles” is a song by Sproule’s Tin Angel labelmate Ed Askew. Two songs are co-written with Mike O’Neill (Inbreds) and mixed by Sandro Perri. Sproule’s husband Paul Curreri sings, plays, mixes, and produces. “I was staying in a tiny house all by myself, on a windy island out in the North sea. My daily human contact was waving to a farmer while he trained his 9-month-old sheepdog, Jan, for a herding competition. I had a little map of the ruins in the area, but I never really felt like it. I was gravitating toward the more modest plants and birds, considering all the people in my life. Everything seemed hyper-connected. So I postponed dinner — which is always easy because I can’t cook — & begin to write these long, long lines of lyrics. They were way less labored than usual, less chiseled into a meter. But I found that if I narrowed the melody to a few notes — almost like a chant — the ideas began to string themselves together. That song became ‘The Gold String.’ ‘More Together’ is half-about reconciliation — no doubt about it. But it’s also about the relief you feel when you stop needing to set yourself apart in the world. When we lived in Austin, we got this crazy cheap gym membership thanks to a friend’s Costco card. Sometimes on the elliptical, I’d peek at the other folks around me. We were all so sweaty, leaning forward, our music in our headphones, just working. I was surprised how happy I was to be a part of the tribe. So I wrote that into the second verse, along with an image of the sweat lodge we had at Twin Oaks when I was growing up.” Devon Sproule is a Canadian/American musician living in rural Virginia, raised on eco-villages near Kingston, Ontario and Louisa, Virginia. The 34-year-old, in addition to being a musician, is a high school drop-out, a birder, doula, and a student of Deaf Culture and sign language. She has been married to producer Paul Curreri for 11 years. “Sproule’s lyrics glance off each other arrestingly, juxtaposing images.” – Financial Times “Her quirky affectations bring to mind Bjork, and forays into the dark, Michelle Shocked.” – Village Voice Artist Devon Sproule Genre Folk Label Tin Angel Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Listen To This Make It Safe Trees At Your Mom's The Gold String Drawing Circles Jana More Together Tree Detail Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Folk View Product Quick View Meadow Meadow You Are So Alive Folk | Practise Music | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 24th November 2023 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Meadow Meadow You Are So Alive £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Practise Music SKU: PMVLP05 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 24th November 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fairport Convention Fairport Convention Folk | Proper Records | 180g, 1LP Released 30th June 2023 £25.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Fairport Convention Fairport Convention £25.00 Genre: Folk Label: Proper Records SKU: UMCLP046 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 30th June 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Martha Tilston Machines Of Love And Grace Folk | Squiggly Records | 1LP Released 22nd October 2012 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Martha Tilston Machines Of Love And Grace £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Squiggly Records SKU: SQRLP07 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd October 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jess Williamson Cosmic Wink Folk | Mexican Summer | 1LP Released 11th May 2018 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jess Williamson Cosmic Wink £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Mexican Summer SKU: MEX2531 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th May 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Maddy Prior Changing Winds Folk | Chrysalis | 1LP Released 29th March 2022 £6.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Maddy Prior Changing Winds £6.00 Genre: Folk Label: Chrysalis SKU: nn239704 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 29th March 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Robin Williamson Just Like The River & Other Songs Folk | Quadrant | 180g, 1LP Released 3rd November 2008 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Robin Williamson Just Like The River & Other Songs £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Quadrant SKU: Q00001LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 3rd November 2008 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jenny Sturgeon The Living Mountain Folk | Hudson Records | 1LP Released 16th October 2020 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jenny Sturgeon The Living Mountain £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Hudson Records SKU: HUD021LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Magnetic North, The Prospect Of Skelmersdale – Indies Only With Bonus CD Folk | Full Time Hobby | 1LP, Includes CD Released 18th March 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Magnetic North, The Prospect Of Skelmersdale – Indies Only With Bonus CD £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Full Time Hobby SKU: FTH255LP Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 18th March 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Okkervil River Down The River Of Golden Dreams Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Jagjaguwar | 1LP Released 21st April 2020 £14.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Okkervil River Down The River Of Golden Dreams £14.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Jagjaguwar SKU: nn200741 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st April 2020 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Shirley Collins Heroes In Love Folk | Fledgling | 7", Single Released 15th September 2014 £7.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Shirley Collins Heroes In Love £7.00 Genre: Folk Label: Fledgling SKU: STOP2095 Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 15th September 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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