Martha Wainwright S/T, holy crap.

Is Wal-Mart carrying Martha Wainwright's "Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole"?

Haven't got it yet.

rly?

i had this lp on my computer for ages cos my sister ran it through onto her ipod or something.

and i deleted it without listening.

Nice.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5325695

Just now getting around to listening to her last studio album from 2012 (produced by Yuka Honda!) and the opening track "I Am Sorry" has such a winding, beautiful melody it feels like a hug.

fwiw, before I heard this, I already thought she had more good songs on a couple lps and a few eps than Rufus has in his whole discography. Now it's cemented.

This is still a classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2DJE5MLPFI&list=PL6KqsWdzaKt1a_j8rvQr_YC17-Jflmme7

Hmmm, that link doesn't work. Anyway, this album holds up after all these years.

Caffeinated comments from my P&J 2013 ballot:

Martha Wainwright---Come Home To Mama: So, like Cat Power and Fiona Apple, very confidential-to-allusive-to-cryptic-to-let-it-blurt (and back), singer-songer Martha Wainwright now uses tuneful beat science to parse hot mess of life etc. Even further into the studio as self-expressive/referential protection and risk than the Power, less (eventually) tending to monotony than the tirelessly delving Apple, Come Home To Mama has more of a band feel than either, and knows from Prince, Stevie, Ziggy, Dolly, her parents and brother, while always being her own story. Good on drugstore headphones too.

I still need to check Goodnight City.

the Power...the Apple albums, I meant.

Title single out today, but I may wait: usually like her songs best in alb contxt:
Martha Wainwright returns with Love Will Be Reborn, her first new album in five years, on August 20 through Pheromone Records/Cooking Vinyl.

It’s Wainwright’s first album since 2016’s Goodnight City, and the first since 2012’s acclaimed Come Home To Mama to feature all original material. All eleven songs on Love Will Be Reborn are written by the acclaimed singer-songwriter. The title track, out today, was written a few years ago in what was a very dark time for her personally. The song hints at the ache she was going through while capturing a sense of optimism for the future. She wraps her wondrous, trademark vocals around the heartbreak to dizzying effect.

“I wrote the song in its entirety within ten or fifteen minutes,” she admits.” I was bawling.”

Martha began to play the song live before she recorded the album and it became something of an anthem, giving her hope when it was most needed. The song, and the entire album, was produced by Pierre Marchand, best known for his work with Rufus Wainwright on Poses, the McGarrigle’s on Heartbeats Accelerating, and much of Sarah McLaughlin’s 90’s catalog.

Recorded in Martha’s Montreal hometown, the album was made in the basement of café Ursa which also served as a studio and at PM Studios. Martha plays guitar and piano and enlisted the help of Toronto musicians Thom Gill (guitars, keys, back-ups) Phil Melanson (drums, percussion), and Josh Cole (bass). Pierre Marchand plays keyboards on Love Will Be Reborn plus two other tracks while Morgan Moore plays bass on several songs.
TRACKLISTING
1. Middle Of The Lake
2. Getting Older
3. Love Will be Reborn
4. Being Right
5. Report Card
6. Body and Soul
7. Hole in My Heart
8. Justice
9. Sometimes
10. Ranbow
11. Falaise de Malaise

Martha Wainwright
@WainBright
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Mar 24
I'm playing Union Chapel in London (UK) on September 20, 2021. Tickets are on sale now at the link below. See you then!
https://serious.org.uk/events/martha-wainwright

so for the record that's members of the incredible band BERNICE backing her up

She tweeted link for new aingle

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1403354528108486660/nmzBZov9?format=jpg&name=small

on several streaming services:
https://mwt.lnk.to/LWBR

New aingle is to forbid repost of pic you send out, apparently (song: "Falaise De Malaise.")

New album is wild, thematic and gooooing with the floooow, theme as raft,well-lashed, only comparable contemporary sonic experience coming to mynd is Maria McKee's Pre-Raphaelite shout out to Beatrice, La Vita Nuova.

good interview:https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/aug/07/this-much-i-know-martha-wainwright-my-divorce-has-given-me-wisdom
and concert review, w more quotes:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/04/first-live-concert-masks-martha-wainwright-pandemic

Cool, thanks.

Martha and Rufus on growing up, heading out, re-converging:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/16/rufus-and-martha-wainwright-when-mum-died-we-sewed-ourselves-together-again

omg---Stories I Might Regret Telling You is finally here.

"This book has been a thorn in my side for almost seven years,” writes singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright near the close of her engrossing memoir, an account produced through the lonely tumult of a custody battle, in the wake of grief, then galvanised by new hope. “I’ve burned copies and used the backs of pages as scrap paper on which I taught my kids addition and subtraction,” she continues. “An early draft was used as evidence against me in my divorce case.”

Much like her album of last year, Love Will Be Reborn, which processes some of the same material, very little feels off-limits in this slim but jam-packed book, full of very good times in the circus that is a performer’s life as well as very bad times.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/28/stories-i-might-regret-telling-you-by-martha-wainwright-review-first-class-family-drama

Talented family. Looking forward to reading this one.

it's a good book

Thanks. I see some good editorial reviews on Amazon too. Oh wait.

Some sort of incubating period