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Twice Told Tales (album)

Twice Told Tales
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Studio album by 10,000 Maniacs
Released April 4, 2015 (2015-04-04)
Genre Folk
Language English
Label Cleopatra Records
Producer Armand John Petri
10,000 Maniacs chronology
Music from the Motion Picture
(2013)
Twice Told Tales
(2015)
Playing Favorites
(2016)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 57/100
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3/5 stars

Twice Told Tales is the ninth studio album by Jamestown, New York band 10,000 Maniacs. It is an album that consists of many traditional folk songs from the British Isles. For this album, they team up with producer Armand John Petri, who had worked with the band since 1991, as well as producing their 1999 album The Earth Pressed Flat. Coming back into the fold is founding member John Lombardo, who had supplied the band with a cassette full of songs he loved, as well as putting together the arrangements. The band funded the project by using the online Direct-to-fan music platform PledgeMusic, which began May 13, 2014. Early promotion of the project included a concert held at the Reg Lenna Center For The Arts in Jamestown, New York, which was also streamed online for fans from far parts of the world to tune in. The pledge closed on March 17, 2015 and was released through Cleopatra Records on April 10, 2015.

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Twice Told Tales received an average score of 57, based on 4 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

All songs traditional except "The Song of Wandering Aengus": words by William Butler Yeates, set to music by Christy Moore.


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