Ash Wednesday (album)
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| Studio album by Elvis Perkins | ||||
| Released | February 20, 2007 (U.S.) July 9, 2007 (UK) |
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| Recorded | 2006 | |||
| Genre | Folk-rock | |||
| Length | 50:52 | |||
| Label | XL Recordings | |||
| Producer | Ethan Gold | |||
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| Pitchfork Media | (7/10) |
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| The Skinny | |
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."
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.
"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.
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