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Powder Burns

Powder Burns
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Studio album by The Twilight Singers
Released May 15, 2006
Recorded 2005-2006
Genre Indie rock, alternative rock
Length 48:48
Language English
Label One Little Indian
Producer Greg Dulli, Mike Napolitano
The Twilight Singers chronology
Greg Dulli's Amber Headlights
(2005)
Powder Burns
(2006)
A Stitch in Time (EP)
(2006)
Singles from Powder Burns
  1. "There's Been an Accident"
    Released: May 15, 2006
  2. "I'm Ready"
    Released: July 10, 2006
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars
Pitchfork Media (7.9/10)
The Skinny 5/5 stars
Transform Online (positive)

Powder Burns is the fourth album by Greg Dulli's The Twilight Singers (not counting Dulli's solo album Amber Headlights). It was released on May 15, 2006 via One Little Indian Records on CD and double 12" vinyl. Powder Burns was partly recorded with extra power generators in a deserted New Orleans studio just after the floods caused by Hurricane Katrina. The album was also recorded in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Milan, and Catania.

During the album recording in 2005, Greg Dulli was aided by Manuel Agnelli, of the Italian rock band Afterhours, who co-wrote "My Time (Has Come)" and "The Conversation", the lyrics for which were inspired by the 1974 Francis Ford Coppola film of the same name. "My Time (Has Come)" was first released in 2005 as "White Widow" on Afterhours' Ballads for Little Hyenas, which in turn was co-produced by Dulli. Other collaborators on this album are Joseph Arthur, Jeff Klein and Ani DiFranco. The same recording sessions yielded the follow-up EP A Stitch in Time, released in December 2006.

It was released to extremely positive reviews, and actor/comedian Denis Leary called it "one of the best rock albums I've heard in 10 years," also putting the song "Bonnie Brae" in Rescue Me, his Emmy nominated TV series. Additionally, the song "There's Been an Accident" featured in the 2008 film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel, Choke.


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