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Ash Wednesday | |||
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Studio album by | |||
Released | February 20, 2007 (US) July 9, 2007 (UK) | ||
Recorded | 2006 | ||
Genre | Folk-rock | ||
Length | 50:52 | ||
Label | XL Recordings | ||
Producer | Ethan Gold | ||
Elvis Perkins chronology | |||
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Professional ratings | |
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Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
The Guardian | [2] |
Pitchfork Media | (7/10)[3] |
Rolling Stone | [4] |
The Skinny | [5] |
Ash Wednesday is the debut studio album by singer songwriter Elvis Perkins, released on February 20, 2007, on XL Recordings. It is a chronologically sequenced album of songs written before (Tracks 1 to 6) and after (Tracks 7 to 11) the death of his mother, who died on 9/11. In a 2009 interview, Perkins states that the album '[has] been made out to be bleaker than it really is, [...] there were moments of hopefulness on Ash Wednesday too.'[6]
Regarding the album's title, Perkins states that it:
refers to being left on Wednesday with nothing but ash, because [my mother] died on a Tuesday – being left with ash on September 12. That was also the day my father died, September 12 [1992, of complications from AIDS]. It first occurred to me on Ash Wednesday itself – my consciousness was largely ruled by having lost my mother six months previously.[7]
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'All the Night Without Love' was the lead single off the album; 'Moon Woman II' appears on the Fast Food Nation soundtrack, and 'While You Were Sleeping' was featured in a season 4 episode of The O.C.. The album was released on XL Records and includes backing vocals by Ariana Lenarsky, Shana Levy of indie band Let's Go Sailing, and others.
Track listing[edit]
- 'While You Were Sleeping'
- 'All The Night Without Love'
- 'May Day!'
- 'Moon Woman II'
- 'It's Only Me'
- 'Emile's Vietnam in the Sky'
- 'Ash Wednesday'
- 'The Night & The Liquor'
- 'It's a Sad World After All'
- 'Sleep Sandwich'
- 'Good Friday'
Chart performance[edit]
Chart (2007) | Peak position |
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France Album Chart | 193 |
References[edit]
- ^Allmusic review
- ^The Guardian review
- ^Pitchfork Media review
- ^Rolling Stone review
- ^The Skinny review
- ^Feature by Paul Mitchell. (March 31, 2009). 'Elvis Perkins: Checking out of Heartbreak Hotel?'. The Skinny. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
- ^Caroline Sullivan (June 7, 2007). 'All about my mother'. The Guardian. London. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
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Elvis Perkins performing live at Joe's Pub in New York City on March 1, 2007. | |
Background information | |
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Born | February 9, 1976 (age 43) Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
Genres | Singer-songwriter, folk-rock |
Instruments | Vocals, guitar, harmonica |
Labels | MIR, XL Records |
Website | Elvisperkinssound.net |
Elvis Brooke Perkins (born February 9, 1976) is an Americanfolk-rockrecording artist. He released his debut studio album, Ash Wednesday, in 2007. He subsequently toured in support of the album with his band Elvis Perkins in Dearland, composed of Perkins alongside multi-instrumentalists Brigham Brough (bass,vocals, saxophone), Wyndham Boylan-Garnett (organ, harmonium, trombone, guitar, vocals) and Nick Kinsey (drums, clarinet, vocals). The band released its eponymous debut, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, on March 10, 2009.
The band formed in Providence, Rhode Island around 2004 when Elvis moved to the East Coast upon completing Ash Wednesday, although the members have been friends and collaborators for many years.[citation needed]
Perkins released his third full-length album, I Aubade, on February 24, 2015, on his label MIR. He toured in support of I Aubade in 2015.[1]
- 3Discography
Background[edit]
Perkins is the son of actor Anthony Perkins and photographer Berry Berenson. He was raised in Los Angeles and Manhattan with his older brother, actor and director Oz Perkins. Perkins is a great-grandson of the fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, who was a great-niece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, the Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a nephew of the actress Marisa Berenson, Berry's sister. His paternal grandfather Osgood Perkins, was also an actor. His maternal great-grandfather was Count Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor, a theosophist and psychic medium. His mother was a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), whose sister Senda (1868–1954) was an athlete and educator and one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Perkins was named him after Elvis Presley, of whom his father was a fan.[2]
Perkins attended Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, after graduating from high school at the Harvard-Westlake School in 1994.
Perkins took to music at an early age, briefly learning the saxophone before picking up the guitar in high school and taking lessons with Prescott Niles, one-time bassist for The Knack. While he played in rock bands, Perkins developed an interest in the classical guitar, and began to compose music in both idioms.
Some of his ancestry on his mother's side is French, Jewish, Egyptian, Italian, and Swiss.
Recordings[edit]
Debut album Ash Wednesday was produced and arranged by recording artist and composer Ethan Gold, independently released in 2006, and subsequently released February 20, 2007 by XL Recordings.
In 2007 he did a Take-Away Show acoustic video session shot by Vincent Moon.
In 2008, Perkins in Dearland recorded a cover of the Sacred Harp song 'Weeping Pilgrim' for Awake My Soul, Help Me to Sing the soundtrack to the movie Awake My Soul.
His band released its debut album Elvis Perkins in Dearland on 10 March 2009.
His song 'Doomsday' from the Doomsday EP appeared on the second-season premiere of the HBO series Enlightened.
In 2009, he worked with the Yellow Bird Project to create a T-shirt to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund. In the same year, on September 2, he performed an acoustic benefit concert in New York City at the Housing Works Bookstore Café to help promote the project's first publication.[3][4]
On February 24, 2015, Perkins released his third full-length album, I Aubade, on his newly established label MIR.[5] It is manufactured and distributed by the music division of Isolation Network, INGrooves. It will be available outside the US on April 20, 2015.
The French indie label Microcultures, released a session in October 2016 that was recorded for France Musique Radio's Label Pop, hosted by music journalist Vincent Theval. The album featured the first incarnation of his I Aubade touring band, multi-instrumentalists Mitchell Robe and Danielle Aykroyd, a songwriter who goes by the pseudonym Vera Sola. Sola credits the launch of her career to Elvis' support and encouragement.[6]
In recent years, Perkins has been collaborating with his brother Osgood on scores for the latter's films. The critically acclaimed score to 'Blackcoat's Daughter' was released on DeathWaltz Recordings in March 2017.[7] The New York Times writes: '“The Blackcoat’s Daughter” bewitches with silky-smooth camera movements and a rolling, reverberating musical score (by Elvis Perkins, the director's brother).'[8] Matt Fagerholm wrote of it that the score set the perfect atmospheric tone for the film.[9]
Discography[edit]
Albums[edit]
- Ash Wednesday (February 20, 2007)
- Elvis Perkins in Dearland (March 10, 2009)
- I Aubade (February 24, 2015)
- The Blackcoat's Daughter (March 31, 2017)
Singles[edit]
- 'While You Were Sleeping' (July 16, 2007)
- 'All the Night Without Love' (November 20, 2007)
EPs[edit]
- 'The Doomsday EP' (October 20, 2009)
- 'Label Pop Session EP' (November 4, 2016)
References[edit]
- ^'Concert'. Elvis Perkins. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
- ^'Birthright: Elvis Perkins'. 1 March 2016.
- ^'Indie Rock Coloring Book'. Yellow Bird Project. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
- ^'Elvis Perkins, Ra Ra Riot for New York charity event'. Nme.com. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
- ^'Elvis Perkins – 'Hogus Pogus' (Stereogum Premiere)'. Stereogum. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
- ^https://www.lofficiel.com/pop-culture/vera-sola-princesse-folk
- ^https://www.discogs.com/Elvis-Perkins-The-Blackcoats-Daughter/release/10394483
- ^https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/movies/the-blackcoats-daughter-review.html
- ^https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/a-movie-can-be-a-poem-oz-perkins-on-the-blackcoats-daughter
External links[edit]
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