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01. Ned Collette - Oh Man
02. Ned Collette - Thanks Richard
03. Ned Collette - Grant's Farm
04. Ned Collette - No Wonder You Look So Forlorn
05. Ned Collette - Carriage Six
06. Ned Collette - Sacred Cats
07. Ned Collette - The Optimist
08. Ned Collette - Sunday
09. Ned Collette - June
10. Ned Collette - Shinobazu
11. Ned Collette - Snaky Song
12. Ned Collette - Wakanui
13. Ned Collette - Stateless Brave
14. Ned Collette - Animal Swoon
ARTIST
TITLE
Old Chestnut
FORMAT
2LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
FTR 362-2LP FTR 362-2LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/21/2019

Second edition of 500. Pressed on bottle green and blue bell color vinyl. "We were introduced to the music of Ned Collette by guitarist Julia Reidy, another Melbourne ex-pat currently based in Europe. Julia's word is good as gravy around here, so we checked out Ned's new work and were blown clean out of our socks. Old Chestnut is a haunting prog-folk song cycle for the ages. Ned's approach to voice and guitar resemble various models at various times. You'll hear smatterings of Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Pip Proud in lyrics and phrasing, but these are always just spices, added to the beautifully melancholic vistas Ned arrays before our ears. On the epic track, 'June,' there is a piano part by Chris Abrahams (of The Necks) so perfect in its conception it stops time. Working with longtime drum partner, Joe Talia, and a few other guests, Collette has made a goddamn whale of an album. The songs are brilliant, the arrangements have an addictively sparse genius, and the production is so full and delicate it reminds us of folks like Jim O'Rourke, Van Dyke Parks and Roger Waters. We are strangely unfamiliar with the bulk of Ned's previous recordings, but it doesn't really feel like it matters that much. With an album as strong as Old Chestnut, his history restarts here." --Byron Coley