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- Summary: The third full-length release for the Canadian singer-songwriter was co-produced with Arcade Fire's Tim Kingsbury and Mark Lawson.
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- Record Label: Secret City Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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| Promise Not to Think About Love | |
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| Not to think about love But to see the way you play it I have taken a vow Now I want to hear you say it Are you troubled at all If I make no... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Oct 29, 2013It’s the perfect break-up album as there’s no wallowing--rather, there’s a steely defiance running through these songs that make Tall Tall Shadow a surprisingly uplifting experience.
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Oct 29, 2013Whether effervescent (the poppy Promise Not To Think About Love zips along on handclaps and a jaunty bass line) or solemn (elegiac closing track From Now On), her modern take on folk music often delves into the darkness, but always looks toward the light.
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Oct 29, 2013It’s a great ending to a great record, one that musically takes Bulat a bit further from the folk comfort zone, but not so far as to lose the essential character of what she is about.
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Oct 29, 2013Tall Tall Shadow is easily the songwriter's most fully realized effort; it should expand her audience reach considerably--even if it leaves some of her more purist followers by the wayside.
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Mar 12, 2014Her third full-length Tall Tall Shadow undulates between extremes, too, rolling radio-ready adult alternative and acoustic traditionalism.
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Oct 29, 2013Tall Tall Shadow (the long-awaited follow-up to 2010's Heart of My Own) sees Bulat lifting her voice once again--high above the fussy introduction of electronic elements--to a place where joy and despair mingle in heady measures.
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Oct 29, 2013The Canadian chanteuse offers up a series of deceptively delicate entreaties that quickly give way to the sort of emphatic rhythms and boisterous melodies that reflect an unmistakably bold confidence.