Liberman [Deluxe Edition]

by Vanessa Carlton

Overview

Continuing with the austere sincerity she carved out on 2011's Rabbits on the Run, Vanessa Carlton nevertheless opens up a bit on 2015's Liberman, an album named after her grandfather and written in the years after the singer/songwriter married and started a family. Carlton doesn't directly reference her lineage anywhere on Liberman, but with its ghostly music box pianos, electronic watercolors, staccato strings, and elliptical melodies, the album feels simultaneously elusive and introspective. While Carlton rarely quickens her pulse here -- at best, the record achieves a gentle simmer, never a boil -- all the slyly shifting sonics enveloping the songs give Liberman a painterly feel, which seems inviting where Rabbits on the Run often felt insular. Carlton is still avoiding any of the grand gestures that defined her earliest work but at this point, this quietly meditative pop feels like a truer reflection of her intentions than "A Thousand Miles." [A Deluxe Edition added a second disc with eight bonus tracks, mostly different takes on songs from the album.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	10/23/2015
Label:	Dine Alone
UPC:	0821826011236
Rank:	88111

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Take It Easy
2. Willows
3. House of Seven Swords
4. Operator
5. Blue Pool
6. Nothing Where Something Used to Be
7. Matter of Time
8. Unlock the Lock
9. River
10. Ascension

Disc 2

11. Blue Pool
12. River
13. Take It Easy
14. Willows
15. House of Seven Swords
16. Operator
17. Unlock the Lock
18. Nothing Where Something Used to Be

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Vanessa Carlton   Primary Artist,Piano,Vocals,Tamborim,Keyboards,Tambourine,Organ
Skye Steele   Violin
Adam Landry   Drums,Synthesizer,Guitar (Bass),Guitar (Electric),Hi String Guitar (Acoustic)
John J. McCauley III   Drums,Piano,Guitar,Omnichord,Guitar (Bass),Guitar (Electric)
Steve Osborne   Drums,Guitar,Keyboards,Synthesizer,Guitar (Bass),Guitar (Acoustic)

Technical Credits

Vanessa Carlton   Composer
Eddie Chacon   Photography
Skye Steele   String Arrangements
John McCauley   Composer
Adam Landry   Mixing,Engineer,Producer,Programming
John J. McCauley III   Composer
Jo Ratcliffe   Art Direction,Illustrations
John Baldwin   Mastering
Jahved Crockett   Design
Rishon Blumberg   A&R
Stephen John Osborne   Composer
Steve Osborne   Mixing,Composer,Producer
Craig Alvin   Mixing