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Land Of Talk – Applause Cheer Boo Hiss

10 track CD digipack album. Includes bonus track Street Wheels.

Land Of Talk was formed in 2005 in Montreal, Canada by singer and guitarist Elizabeth Powell, bassist Joseph Yarmush and drummer Andrew Barr. They released their debut Applause Cheer Boo Hiss the following year. A label move – to Saddle Creek in the US and One Little Indian in the UK – followed for 2008’s more melodic follow-up Some Are Lakes, which was produced by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. A third record, Cloak and Cipher, was released in 2010.

“Frontwoman Elizabeth Powell’s smoldering, harmonically complex fretwork and assured vocals help distinguish Land of Talk from the multi-layered massiveness of their city’s best-known indie collectives.

Somehow Powell finds a way to balance early Cat Power fragility and PJ Harvey volatility; whether mumbling indecipherably or singing about “fuckin’ around,” girls who “still piss their pants,” or the dangers of drinking when already tired, she’s always in command.” – Pitchfork

Tracklist:
1. Speak To Me Bones
2. Sea Foam
3. Summer Special
4. Breaxxbaxx
5. Magnetic Hill
6. All My Friends
7. Street Wheels
8. Young Bridge
9. 2 Ships
10. Dark Nature Places