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AN UNWAVERING BAND OF LIGHT

by Jenny Owen Youngs

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Tim Heffley
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Tim Heffley Great vocal style and a universal sound that can capture even the most particular ear. Not something I would normally gravitate toward, but this album is fantastic. Favorite track: Born To Lose.
Yves Gabryel
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Yves Gabryel I'm in love with her voice, why is she's not a success yet? I really like when this music plays while I'm working on something, it gives me peace somehow. Favorite track: Your Apartment.
John Davidson
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John Davidson Love this record, the voice and the innocent/raw tone. Heaps of references from other eras and artists - Wish I could sing! Favorite track: Born To Lose.
xrenxcorex
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xrenxcorex Catchy catchy catchy catchy pop. She's come a long way from that first record. Favorite track: Love For Long.
mark glanville
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mark glanville A lovely combination of lively, dancable tracks and more relaxed tunes. Favorite track: Pirates.
Sam Findlay
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Sam Findlay It has a song about pirates, and i like cats Favorite track: Pirates.
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1.
LOVE FOR LONG My daddy’s car, you know she’s built to last And I take the corners hard and fast If a way out is all you’re looking for Well shut your mouth and the passenger door Go side by side, a thousand miles It feels like nothing with you in shotgun Just like a bolt, we’re up the coast love And where we go, we’ll make the most of The love we got, cause it won’t be love for long For right or wrong Eyes on the road, windows rolled away We keep our heads ducked down most days But when you come running, say we gotta go I don’t ask cause I already know This time next year we’ll be so far from here The wind behind us, oh how’ll they find us When like a bolt, we’re up the coast love And where we go, we’ll make the most of The love we got, cause it won’t be love for long Your mama’s heart is surely bound to break The day they finally drag up that lake Science tells us bones won’t turn to mud No matter how you wish that they would Let ‘em come, I don’t care what you done We’ll fight like demons and leave them screaming And like a bolt, we’re up the coast love And where we go, we’ll make the most of The love we got, cause it won’t be love for long
2.
YOUR APARTMENT Take me back to your apartment so I'll see if I’m correct About where you keep your heart, love, cause I'm starting to suspect That it's chained up in your basement inside an oaken chest That's padlocked up to heaven to keep out what comes next Oh I want to be the girl who makes you try To do the thing you haven't done oh why Is it so hard to stay in love I just want to be good enough For you And how I’m so into you now that I can't see out Show me how to give you what you'll never doubt All I want is to be what you cannot live without I will meet you on your front porch, yeah I’ll sit out on the stair However long it takes for you to find me waiting there Cause I know where you belong, love, yes how you're meant to be And I'm not going anywhere until you leave with me Oh I want to be the girl who makes you try To do the thing you haven't done oh why Is it so hard to stay in love I just want to be good enough For you And how I’m so into you now that I can't see out Show me how to give you what you'll never doubt All I want is to be what you cannot live without Now I don't need no guarantee Just make a little room for me Inside your life somehow Oh I want to be the girl who makes you try To do the thing you haven't done Oh I want to be the girl who makes you try To do the thing you haven't done oh why Is it so hard to stay in love I just want to be good enough For you And how I’m so into you now that I can't see out Show me how to give you what you'll never doubt All I want is to be what you cannot live without
3.
Pirates 03:56
PIRATES We could be pirates or go somewhere private I don’t wanna make a scene I just wanna leave And head back to your place cause I got a roommate And he don’t wanna hear or see what you’re doing to me I’ll keep coming back You don’t make me better but you don’t make me worse I’ll keep coming back Numb’s no good But it sure beats the hurt Can’t say what’s inside me or when you might find me Lying with my face down in the dirt like I never learned how To stand on my own feet or make a recovery If there is a right time darling well it’s never been now I’ll keep coming back You don’t make me better but you don’t make me worse I’ll keep coming back Numb’s no good But it sure beats the hurt What you don’t know can’t do no damage What you can’t see won’t be the thing That digs its teeth in So pull to the shoulder tell me it’s over Saying that you’re oh so glad we met but you’d rather just stop now than regret Said you can’t be the one now to clean all my wounds out Bandages and nice neat bows? Hell no - you have to just go I’ll keep coming back You don’t make me better but you don’t make me worse I’ll keep coming back Numb’s no good But it sure beats the hurt
4.
O God 04:11
O GOD I know how this part goes We’ll call it casual You’ll say that’s fine with you You like to keep things loose But then some time will pass I know you’ll tire of it You want me carved in stone You want the best of it O god I can’t stay I won’t stay for things left unseen I can’t stay I won’t stay I know you’re a dream A sweet sweet dream You think you’ve seen one girl So you’ve seen every girl You know her breath will catch And how her fingers curl Around a gnawing hope She’ll find a love that burns I’ve seen a hundred backs But never one return O god I can’t stay I won’t stay for things left unseen I can’t stay I won’t stay I know you’re a dream A sweet sweet dream O god I can’t stay I won’t stay for things left unseen I can’t stay I won’t stay the end has no means I can’t stay I won’t stay I know you’re a dream A sweet sweet dream You’re a dream But not my dream
5.
Born To Lose 03:52
BORN TO LOSE You've got two bad eyes, you got em from your parents And one bad leg, you got it from the war Three mistakes in bottles on a shelf yes You can't wait to go and make some more If you sneak out now, they'll never know you're missing Before they're wise, you could be gone and back While they stand guffawing in the kitchen You’re down the stair, and leave the screen unlatched Leave that door unlatched Swallowed up in silence, holding all your breath now Wait for that familiar pull Somewhere in the night, a man is standing by With a deal you won't be able to refuse No, you can't call him, but expect your phone to ring And brother, you prepare yourself to Offer up what you were born to lose You move down the block, see curtains hung in tatters The windows lit - the house is still awake The girl upstairs is crying like it matters Will she bend or will she only break Just one more mistake In no time she's disappearing through your fingers Slips away so make it last Somewhere in the night, a man is standing by With a deal you won't be able to refuse No, you can't call him, but expect your phone to ring And brother, you prepare yourself to offer up What you needed the most Lord, he'll make you a ghost If you do or if you don't You've got two bad eyes, you got em from your parents And one bad leg, you got it from the war Three mistakes in bottles on a shelf yes You can't wait to go and make some more So go and make some more Somewhere in the night, a man is standing by With a deal you won't be able to refuse No, you can't call him, but expect your phone to ring And brother, you prepare yourself to Offer up what you were born to lose
6.
Why You Fall 05:21
WHY YOU FALL Oh god it took a while to come right back to me I’d give up anything if you’d just let me be No use in shaking me just leave me in my bed Cause mornings are the worst bit Mornings drag me on ahead I know I should have seen that hand behind your back But I was busy launching my own full-scale heart attack Yeah you sure taught me something when you took me down Make the best of moments Then make for higher ground Don’t want to hear about the wind and how it blow As far as I see love is just a hole Just like a tidal wave you crumble and divide With no regard for all the shreds you’ve left behind So now what can I do but tremble in your wake Sorting things you’ve broken From things you’ve yet to break Don’t want to hear about some fate we can’t control As far as I see love is just a hole That’s why you fall Armed with demons plenty and pleasures oh so few Left to my devices can’t say what I might do Well you turned me around But that’s all over now Love is just a hole Love is just a hole That’s why you fall Love is just a hole
7.
SLEEP MACHINE Swallowed it all and feeling fine Give it a little bit more time Closing in on silent mind Wait for the perfect sign Talking end of the couch again Break apart at the slightest thing How can it matter where I’ve been Doctor I’m sinking in Now you know everything, you come by word or wing Turn on again And scrape me til I’m clean inside the sleep machine Turn on again Static humming in either ear Voices that won’t come clear Remember how I got down here Lights that burn, words that sear I wait beneath the house for days I try my hardest not to stay Now you know everything, you come by word or wing Turn on again And scrape me til I’m clean inside the sleep machine Turn on again Tongue to use for counting teeth Silences, however brief What should bar me from relief Something moving underneath Oh doctor doctor please I cannot see So what’s it take to fix someone like me Oh yes I’ll stay, oh god, don’t mind a thing May it burn or char or drain or sting
8.
Two By Two 04:02
TWO BY TWO Wake before the sun comes, you’re going where you must Where fire is born and dust returns to dust Light in your eyes boy, dirt beneath your nails And in your heart belief that love prevails That girl so fair with ankles bare You lost her to the wind She sleeps below so down you go An end, now, to begin All you love commit to the ash All you worked for gone in a flash You can’t look forward while you’re looking back Where come the lyre, boy, that led you here today Now it seems she hasn’t much to say But no need for further talk, let’s say you’re understood You’ll have your chance to take her back for good Just mind the rules, the devil’s tools Business first at pleasure’s cost If you should chance one backward glance All will be lost All you love commit to the ash All you worked for gone in a flash You can’t look forward while you’re looking back There’ll be no good-byes, boy, that boat won’t slow for you You tried and failed, it’s more than most would do So dream a dream of going to by two Dream a dream of going two by two
9.
Already Gone 03:56
ALREADY GONE When you go away it gets harder to breathe I want you to stay but you're looking to leave and I wouldn't mind making believe Is it too late I'll do it anyway I told you No no you can't believe her That girl is full of fever I'll give you anything but Go if you need to How can I keep you Now you're already gone Did I overstay? You're tugging your sleeves You said what they say: that I'm a disease and there's no coming up when you come down with me Is it too late I'll do it anyway I told you No no you can't believe her That girl is full of fever I'll give you anything but Go if you need to How can I keep you Now you're already gone It's now or it's never You get left holding feathers It won't be so easy To keep yourself without me now No no you can't believe her That girl is full of fever I'll give you anything but Go if you need to How can I keep you Now you're already gone
10.
So Long 03:29
SO LONG So the house is wired from floor to attic You can’t get in or out And your first response is automatic But no one hears you shout Hoping against a hope that’s rail thin All that you know for now, you’ll be waiting So long So you walk the path through the sea of sleepers And keep your eyes ahead Cause you know that light is finders keepers But what you found instead Is no one was made for this, to be lonely Keep it against your chest, this is only So long No one can put you back how you were then Chemicals must react, it’s a certain So long
11.
Wake Up 05:34
WAKE UP Make way for the new time Can’t wait on the side lines Making promises you don’t understand To people who aren’t listening No one is gonna tear my hand Away I can’t look back and I can’t look away Swear that I won’t ever be Just a flash or memory A shadow that locks up hypnotized From watching your ribcage fall and rise But I’ll fade if you just avert your eyes Away I can’t look back and I can’t look away I wake up great I wake up fine

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released February 7, 2012

Produced, arranged, engineered and mixed by Dan Romer at Drawing Number One Studios

Mastered by Devin Kerr at Good Hertz

Additional vocal engineering on “Two By Two” by Mike Tuccillo
Additional horn engineering by Jerry Fuentes

Art Direction by Gail Marowitz
Photography by Myriam Santos

AN UNWAVERING BAND OF LIGHT was performed by…

Jenny Owen Youngs: Guitars, vox
Dan Romer: Piano, mellotron, organ, rhodes, synth, accordion, bass, guitars, banjo, ukulele, percussion, programming, vox
Elliot Jacobson: Drums

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Chris Kuffner: Bass on 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9
Adam Christgau: Percussion on 2
Seth Faulk: Percussion on 5, 7
Tyler Strickland: Guitar and rhodes on 11
Joe Schumacher: Guitar on 11
Dave Eggar: Cello on 4, 9, 11
Jonathan Dinklage: Violin and viola on 4, 7, 9, 11
Rob Hecht: Five-string fiddle on 5, 7
Kenny Warren: Horns on 2, 5, 7
Phil Rodriguez: Horns on 2, 5, 7
Corey King: Horns on 2, 5, 7
Saul Simon-MacWilliams: Vox on 3, 11
Ben Thornewill: Vox on 10
Tommy Siegel: Vox on 10
Kait Lawson: Vox on 6

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Avalanche, Youngs’ exceptional debut for Yep Roc records, offers up an achingly beautiful exploration of loss, resilience, and growth from an artist who’s experienced more than her fair share of each in recent years. The songs are deceptively serene, layering Youngs’ infectious pop sensibilities atop lush, dreamy arrangements that often belie the swift emotional currents lurking underneath. ... more

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