VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2008! The follow-up to Alela Diane's 2006 debut The Pirate's Gospel is both flinty and beautiful. She draws from a tradition that might include Sandy Denny and Karen Dalton. "Accompanied mostly by her acoustic guitar, newcomer Alela Diane sings stark, ghostly folk. She's already flaunting a large, lived-in growl flavored by antediluvian blues and jazz inflections" - Spin. "Echoing wide, her timbre is rich and thick and her range is higher than most acoustic singer-songwri...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Limited edition 10" tour vinyl, a collaboration of old and new and borrowed. Six new songs - limited edition companion album to To Be Still. Alela Diane you'll probably know. The most startlingly wonderful new folk voice to arrive in the last five years, Alela has toured and charmed the insides out of most of the parts of the world comfortable enough in their own skin to allow themselves to be moved by a person singing about the life they live and the life they might have lived. Here Alela...   [ read more ]

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'Part of the nouveau psych-folk movement that began to take shape as the first decade of the 21st century drew to a close, the American-born singer/songwriter Alela Diane got her start thanks to a well-received self-released recording (2003's Forest Parade) and a helping hand from established scenester Joanna Newsom. After a short stint with the group Black Bear and a European vacation, Diane returned to the States and began work on her next album, which would see the light of day as The Pirate's Gospel i...   [ read more ]

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