Honey from the Ribcage

by Jamie Barnes

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Second Guess My Own 04:03
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Snow Angel 03:41
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Red Prescription 03:02
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PearlyGateSonPestControl 03:17
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Three Suns 05:00
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The Sword That Divides 03:52
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Black Lung 03:22
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Oil Rig 04:34
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All These Things Are So 04:10
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White Owl 04:50
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"I'll trade you my black lung for the blades of your shoulders that carry the weight as we both are growing older." What a brilliant line. This collection of eccentric acoustic pieces is very warm & moving. Despite the dark tone of the songs, the album has an almost "uplifting" feel to it. Jamie's voice is soothing & gentle, & the production work is brilliant. I would love to hear him perform a duet with fellow Silber vocalist Tara VanFlower someday. All that is missing from this release is your ears.
~ Poseidon, Gothic Beauty

I absolutely love the first track, "Second Guess My Own," a quiet, somber-sounding ballad featuring quiet male lead vocals, beautifully reserved female back-up vocals that are layered on at times like an a capella church choir drone. It reminds me a lot of my favorite Low songs vocally, and some of my favorite Will Oldham songs musically, with gorgeously melancholy banjo picking and rhythm guitar making up the bulk of the instruments. Actually, I absolutely love all the songs on this, but this track alone is worth picking up the album, even though there's a whole other nine songs to enjoy as well! I'm not going to give a break-down of every single song on the disc, because if I did, and I did for every single CD that came across my desk, my fingers would be big and fat and meaty from the workout, and I'm not planning on having my wedding ring resized anytime soon. So you'll have to take my word for it - there's some really beautiful stuff here. Jamie Barnes has one of those rare, wonderful singing voices that sounds quite masculine despite being high-pitched, fragile and sweet. The music is just as good as the vocals, too, soft and sparse and near-acoustic and back-woods folky, oh, and the lyrics are all about death and loneliness and falling to pieces somewhere out in the middle of nowhere.
~ Holly Day, Cosmik Debris

Following Jamie Barnes' highly impressive debut album The Fallen Acrobat (reviewed in last issue's Silber article) comes the new one, Honey from the Ribcage, which is just as high-quality. Barnes makes bedroom pop, but with far more sophistication than is normally associated with that genre. Extremely well-written songs are accompanied by a whole host of adventurous instruments such as banjo, glockenspiel, ocarina, melodica, sitar, tablas and music box, alongside the more usual guitar. Part indiepop, part country, part atmospheric sound manipulation, part classic songwriting that transcends genre, and shot through with an engaging sense of melancholy and strong creativity, I recommend this album to all music lovers.
~ Kim Harten, blissaquamarine

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released November 8, 2017

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