Hey Mr Ferryman
MARK EITZEL

CD £9.00 Exc VAT: £7.50
  • SKU: DECOR40CD
  • UPC: 5052571067529
  • Release Date: 27 January 2017

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Label Review.

2017 album.

Our Overview.

Mark Eitzels’s tenth solo album in the reflective San Francisco singer-songwriter’s catalogue, Hey Mr Ferryman.

Hey Mr Ferryman is Eitzel’s first full studio album recorded entirely in London. It was made at 355 Studios with Mercury Prize winner Bernard Butler (ex-Suede, McAlmont & Butler), who has produced and/or recorded albums with Tricky, Ben Watt, Bert Jansch, Edwyn Collins, and more. Butler produced Hey Mr Ferryman and played all of the electric guitar, bass, and keyboard parts on the album.

Eitzel originally composed “The Last Ten Years” for American Music Club, the group he founded in the 1983. It was inspired by “an especially toxic year spent in New York’s Lower East Side.” According to the press release, the album’s sound harkens back to the “the vivid melodies long associated with Eitzel’s former band,” whose 1991 album Everclear is considered a cult classic of pensive, woeful indie rock.Hey Mr Ferryman features the vivid melodies long associated with Eitzel’s former band as well as Butler’s distinctive guitar that serves to complement Eitzel’s expressive vocals. Of that voice, Pitchfork once wrote: “If Leonard Cohen’s voice is a story about the passage of time and Levon Helm’s is a story about losing what is most precious to you, Eitzel’s is about the circuitous roads we take in search of ourselves.”

“The songs on this record are about celebrating musicians and music, about misogyny, the long shadow of history, getting one’s head out of one’s ass,” quips Eitzel on the themes of Ferryman. “Also oceans, blood, skies, hearts, gay pioneers, carpenters, weeping women, and how death waits for you even in the happiest place on earth: Las Vegas.”

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