Somewhere Under Wonderland | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Tracklist
A1        Palisades Park
Words By, Music By – Adam Duritz
A2        Earthquake Driver
Music By – David Immerglück
Words By, Music By – Adam Duritz
A3        Dislocation
Music By – Daniel Vickrey*, David Immerglück, Millard Powers
Words By, Music By – Adam Duritz
A4        God Of Ocean Tides
Music By – Daniel Vickrey*, Millard Powers
Words By, Music By – Adam Duritz
B1        Scarecrow
Music By – Daniel Vickrey*, David Immerglück, Millard Powers
Words By, Music By – Adam Duritz
B2        Elvis Went To Hollywood
Music By – David Immerglück
Words By, Music By – Adam Duritz
B3        Cover Up The Sun
Music By – Daniel Vickrey*, David Immerglück, Millard Powers
Words By – Adam Duritz
B4        John Appleseed's Lament
Music By – Daniel Vickrey*, David Immerglück, Millard Powers
Words By, Music By – Adam Duritz
B5        Possibility Days
Words By, Music By – Adam Duritz

Manufactured By – Capitol Records
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Counting Crows, LLC
Copyright © – Jones Falls Music
Pressed By – Rainbo Records – S-91965
Pressed By – Rainbo Records – S-91966
Produced At – Fantasy Studios
Mixed At – The Magic Shop
Mastered At – Sterling Sound
Acoustic Guitar [Tenor] – David Bryson
Artwork – Felipe Molina (4)
Bass Guitar – Millard Powers
Drums – Jim Bogios
Electric Guitar [EKO 12 String] – Dan Vickrey
Engineer – Bill Thomson
Engineer [Assistant] – Kabir Hermon
Mastered By – RJ*
Pedal Steel Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – David Immerglück
Piano – Charles Gillingham
Producer, Mixed By – Brian Deck
Recorded By – Shawn Dealey
Recorded By [Assistant in December 2013] – Alberto Hernandez
Recorded By [Assistant in February 2014] – Jason Butler (6)
Vocals – Adam Duritz
Gatefold sleeve includes printed insert with lyrics.

℗ 2014 Counting Crows, LLC under exclusive license to Capitol Records
© 2014 Felipe Molina under exclusive license to Capitol Records [Artwork]
© 2014 Jones Falls Publishing (BMI) [All Songs]

Made in U.S.A.

200g Vinyl

By the time of Somewhere Under Wonderland, it had been a long, rocky road between albums for alternative folk-rock superstars Counting Crows. Plenty of music had come and gone since 2008's emotionally divided concept album Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings -- a few live albums, a record of covers, and countless shows on multiple tours. These recordings all fell short of presenting that much in the way of new original music from the band, possibly due in part to the turbulent years that followed Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, an album that would be their last for long-time label Geffen and immediately precede a stretch of personal loss and struggle for Crows singer/songwriter Adam Duritz. Despite a long period of upheaval and heavy changes, the nine songs that make up Somewhere Under Wonderland find the band sounding relaxed, optimistic, and even somewhat giddy at times. The record eases into being with the eight-minute long first single "Palisades Park," a suite that glides through different atmospheres, lingering with the same dreamlike fluidity and colorful observational storytelling that Joni Mitchell displayed on The Hissing of Summer Lawns. The lengthy tune breezes by, shifting through Beatles-esqe organ tones, tempo changes, and Duritz's signature characters and poetic scenes. The largely acoustic "Earthquake Driver" sounds stuck somewhere between Thin Lizzy's energetic juvenilia and Paul Simon's soul-searching wordplay circa Graceland. The band doesn't stick with one mood for too long over the course of the album, offering Neil Young-inspired guitar rootsiness on standout track "Scarecrow," gentle acoustic meandering and folksy vocal harmonies on "God of Ocean Tides," and an upbeat country-rock ramble on "Cover Up the Sun." All these stylistic detours fall under a very wide umbrella that makes Somewhere Under Wonderland distinctively Counting Crows. Duritz's raspy voice and lucid, lyrical stories always hold just a hint of desperation, and even decades into a staggered career, these new tunes can't help but feel like part of a larger narrative that began during the band's '90s glory days but finds further, greater refinement here. ~ Fred Thomas

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: ROCK
• Format Type: LP
• Released: 09/02/2014