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The Seven Autumn Flowers - Beautiful Fall Floral Arrangement for Home Decor, Weddings, and Seasonal Events
The Seven Autumn Flowers - Beautiful Fall Floral Arrangement for Home Decor, Weddings, and Seasonal Events

The Seven Autumn Flowers - Beautiful Fall Floral Arrangement for Home Decor, Weddings, and Seasonal Events

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Product Description English cult faves Trembling Blue Stars create a gorgeously melancholy tunes that combine jangly guitars new wave-style electronics and often lush orchestrations with intensely personal deeply romantic lyrics from vocalist-guitarist Bobby Wratten. The album at time recalls the pastoral folk-rock of Nick Drake and the confessional intimacy of Joni Mitchell's BLUE period, yet it's sound remains totally contemporary Fans of the quieter side of Yo La Tengo and of the yearning, unrequited-love songs of the Postal Service will surely relate. This is their first album of all-new material in two years and it's Bar None debut. Since 1997, the band has garnered a loyal international following that has eagerly awaited each of it's four previous releases. SEVEN AUTUMN FLOWERS is the ideal soundtrack for falling in love or making up after breaking up, the perfect warm accompaniment for intimate evening in and languid morning-after. About the Artist Trembling Blue Stars began in the winter of '95 as a solo project from London-based singer-songwriter Bobby Wratten in the aftermath of his short-lived band Northern Picture Library breaking up. Until then, he'd been better known as the lead singer and songwriter of English cult faves the Field Mice, flagship group of the much-loved and very idiosyncratic indie label Sarah Records. Wratten borrowed his new band's name from a line in The Story of O, Pauline Reage's classic novel of S&M erotica and took the title for TBS's 1996 debut album, Her Handwriting, from a Go-Betweens lyric. What started out as a do-it-yourself, one-off effort received so much attention from U.K. critics and indie rock fans that Wratten was persuaded to assemble a band to perform TBS songs live. Early shows, which included an acoustic session for BBC Radio 1, were infrequent enough to be regarded as rare and special occasions; an out-of-the-way gig in Brighton during summer '97 attracted fans who flew in from the U.S., France and Switzerland. Over the course of five subsequent albums, Trembling Blue Stars have indeed become a "real" entity. The current lineup features vocalist-guitarist Wratten, backing vocalist Beth Arzy (of former Field Mice label mates, Aberdeen), bassist Keris Howard (another Sarah alumnus, from Brighter) and drummer Jonathan Ackerman. The Seven Autumn Flowers, produced in collaboration with Saint Etienne engineer Ian Catt, is the first TBS disc of all-new material in three years. This North American edition includes four bonus tracks previously available as import-only B-sides.

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Listening to a Trembling Blue Stars album is like looking at a painting by Turner. Everything seems hazy and samey at first, but if you keep looking long enough details will begin to reveal themselves, gently but inexorably altering your initial perception. There are always special nuances to these songs that will fascinate and surprise you when you least expect it. This can be said of any of the six albums the group have released so far and THE SEVEN AUTUMN FLOWERS, their fifth from 2004, is a perfect example of Bobby Wratten's art.Is this indie-pop? What is indie-pop? The dynamics at play here are so much more: consider the housey groove of SORROW HAS A WAY and how comfortably it sits with the elegant string arrangement of FURTHER TO FALL; or marvel at how well the poppy ALL ETERNAL THINGS and THE SEA IS SO QUIET intersperse the flow of the shuffly ballads, among which you can hear the beauteous KENSINGTON GARDENS and ALL I DO IS LOSING; this is multifarious music, even drawing on dub and ambient soundcapes, a sound that builds warm, womb-like caves you will never want to leave.As for Mr. Wratten, he is a master at writing songs about the eternal things humans keep looking for (and very rarely get); yet these are not songs about love, more about the love of love, and as such they are detached and sympathetic in equal measure. Eternal feelings (regret, joy, loss, desire) are minutely dissected and then framed by rural or urban vistas (both musically and lyrically) that set a perfect tone for every story. And even if we know that love follows a set pattern, yet we are always willing to listen, again and again, to Bobby's (and Beth Arzy's) voice telling us about it.If you have recently become cynical about human relationships, stay away from TBS albums; listening to a couple of tracks might be enough to entrance you, and before you know it you will want to fall in love again, just for the sheer pleasure of feeling emotions pulse through your veins.