Dawes - STORIES DON'T END (VINYL 2xLP HUB HUB001 2013) | NEW

Stories Don't End, the third outing from breezy Los Angeles-based retro-rockers Dawes, takes its name from a line in author Joan Didion's 1984 wartime novel Democracy. It's an enigmatic phrase to be sure, but it certainly applies to the group's penchant for crafting highly literate slabs of smooth, West Coast Americana out of the highway wreckage left behind by artists like the Eagles, the Little River Band, Poco, Jackson Browne, and Gram Parsons. Less overtly Laurel Canyon-centric than 2011's Nothing Is Wrong, due in some part to the East Coast Blue Ridge Mountain locale in which it was birthed, the album keeps the band's classic rock underpinnings intact, yielding a fresh catch of smooth and soulful, largely midtempo offerings that focus on substance over style, relying primarily on the strength of the tasteful, measured arrangements and bandleader Taylor Goldsmith's easy voice and crafty wordplay. Stories Don't End barely registers upon the first spin (it's easy pop for the millennial generation), but if given the time to percolate, it produces a damn fine cup of coffee. This adherence to familiar singer/songwriter tropes is best exemplified on tracks like the rolling "From a Window Seat (Rivers and Freeways)," which echoes Midlake's "Roscoe," the Ben Folds-esque "Just My Luck," and the lovely, mid-record ballad "Something in Common," the latter of which frames Goldsmith's tale of hope and heartache in the reassuring glow of vibrato guitar, simple kick and snare, and a melody that sounds like it floated out of the studio sessions for Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years. ~ James Christopher Monger

Label:
HUB Records (7) – HUB001
Format:
2 x Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:
US
Released:
Apr 9, 2013
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Folk Rock, Indie Rock
A1        Just Beneath The Surface    4:09
A2        From A Window Seat
Percussion [Additional] – Orpheo McCord
4:28
A3        Just My Luck    4:06
B1        Someone Will    3:33
B2        Most People    4:31
B3        Something In Common    5:12
C1        Hey Lover    2:47
C2        Bear Witness    4:18
C3        Stories Don't End    5:00
D1        From The Right Angle    4:11
D2        Side Effects    5:42
D3        Just Beneath The Surface (Reprise)    3:16
Recorded At – Echo Mountain Recording
Recorded At – Sunset Sound
Mixed At – The LBT
Copyright © – HUB Records (7)
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – HUB Records (7)
Lacquer Cut At – Well Made Music
Arranged By [Additional Arranging] – Blake Mills (tracks: A2, B3, D1)
Bass Guitar – Wylie Gelber
Design [Package] – Lawrence Azerrad
Drums, Backing Vocals, Percussion – Griffin Goldsmith
Engineer [Additional Recording] – Brad Bivens
Engineer [Assistant Recording @ Echo Mountain] – Evan Bradford, Jon Ashley, Julian Dreyer
Engineer [Assistant Recording @ Sunset Sound] – David Schwerkolt
Keyboards, Backing Vocals – Tay Strathairn
Lacquer Cut By – CJ III*
Lead Vocals, Guitar – Taylor Goldsmith
Management – Q Prime Inc.
Mastered By – Richard Dodd
Photography By – Noah Abrams
Producer, Recorded By, Mixed By – Jacquire King
Written-By – Blake Mills (tracks: C1, D2), Taylor Goldsmith (tracks: A1 to B3, C2 to D3)
Includes digital download card.
Includes lyric-sheet insert.

Recorded at Echo Mountain, Asheville, NC and Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, CA.
Mixed at The LBT, Nashville, TN. Mastered in Nashville, TN.

All songs except "Hey Lover" and "Side Effects" published by Taylor Goldsmith Songs (BMI).
"Hey Lover" published by Break Mirrors Publishing (BMI). "Side Effects" published by Taylor Goldsmith Songs and Break Mirrors Publishing.

© & ℗ 2013 HUB Records
Barcode: 8 57223 00401 4
Matrix / Runout (Side A - Runout, etched): HUB001-A-RE1 WMM/CJ III/#2
Matrix / Runout (Side B - Runout, etched): HUB001-B WMM/CJ III
Matrix / Runout (Side C - Runout, etched): HUB001-C WMM/CJ III
Matrix / Runout (Side D - Runout, etched): HUB001-D WMM/CJ III

• Condition: NEW
• Format: Vinyl
• Internal ID: 857223004014
• Genre: FOLK
• Format Type: 180 Gram, includes ''Help Yourself'' which is not on the US 2LP edition, download, import