Who Killed Amanda Palmer
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| Studio album by Amanda Palmer | ||||
| Released | September 16, 2008 | |||
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| Genre | Dark cabaret, alternative rock | |||
| Length | 53:12 | |||
| Label | Roadrunner | |||
| Producer | Ben Folds & Amanda Palmer | |||
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| Pitchfork Media | (7.4/10) |
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Who Killed Amanda Palmer is the first solo album by American musical artist Amanda Palmer.
The album was largely recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, with collaborator Ben Folds and was released on Roadrunner Records (also home to The Dresden Dolls). The name of the album is a reference to the series Twin Peaks, which revolves around events surrounding the death of Laura Palmer.
Certain tracks also featured Folds on percussion and keyboards and former Rasputina member Zoë Keating on cello.
In 2007, Palmer self-released the song "I Will Follow You Into the Dark", a cover of the Death Cab for Cutie song, on her MySpace. The ID3 tags listed the source album as Nashville. Fans began discussing the possibility of the solo album being named such, but Palmer dispelled rumors on the Dresden Dolls' forum, The Shadowbox, stating:
that was titled 'nashville' because that is the location that i am recording the solo album....in nashville, at ben folds' studio, with ben, who is producing the record and playing on it. [...] it will not be the album title unless i decide to confuse everybody and come up with an album title that will throw EVERYBODY
....ie 'nashville blues'
Palmer also revealed that the song would not be on the album, instead releasing it on Peace (for Mom) a compilation released by Brainwashed Recordings.
Palmer confirmed to the Boston Phoenix in April 2007 that the album was indeed titled Who Killed Amanda Palmer, although another working title was That's Amanda Fucking Palmer to You. She joked that the latter was unlikely to encourage being stocked at supermarket chain Wal-Mart.
On the overall feel of the record, Palmer said:
A lot of the songs are piano ballads that never found a home on a Dolls' record, because I hadn't wanted to overload the record with slow material. But there's a really intense, exciting energy to the tracks at the same time. It definitely won't drag.
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