Twin Solitude by Leif Vollebekk
Vollebekk's latest, long overdue LP, Twin Solitude, is the product of everything that came before: the unending tours, the slow cover songs, the experience of seeing Prince, alone at a piano, as he altered a room. It was time, Leif understood, to make a dark blue and purple record. An album of locked groove and slow pulse, heavy as a fever. And the lesson he learned from singing all those other people's songs was that none of those other artists seemed worried about anything except laying down their own souls, flat out. "I used to think, 'This will be kinda like a Neil Young song,' 'This will be kinda like a Bob Dylan song,'" he recalled. "I kinda ran out of people to imitate. And then there was just me."Twin Solitude is what happened when Leif stopped saying no. The songs started coming so fast: fully formed, impossible. "Vancouver Time" took 15 minutes; "Telluride" took less. It was as if the songs were waiting for him. Instead of obsessing about the details of recording, "I just showed up to the studio and went, 'Let's see what happens.'"
Tracklist
| 1. | Vancouver Time | 4:38 |
| 2. | All Night Sedans | 3:09 |
| 3. | Elegy | 5:25 |
| 4. | Into the Ether | 5:49 |
| 5. | Big Sky Country | 4:28 |
| 6. | Michigan | 4:48 |
| 7. | Road to Venus | 4:49 |
| 8. | East of Eden | 4:50 |
| 9. | Telluride | 4:22 |
| 10. | Rest | 8:28 |
Credits
2016 Secret City Records Inc.
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Canadian singer-songwriter Leif Vollebekk blends Carl Jung’s musings and Wittgenstein’s love of language with lyrical poetry on Revelation. Rooted in introspection, its 11 tracks evoke Leonard Cohen’s narrative style, Nick Drake’s intimacy, and The Eagles' clarity, weaving themes of nature, mortality, and spirituality into a meditation on life's impermanence.