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Rachael Yamagata - News
Elephants…Teeth Sinking Into Heart
| 12-05-2009 00:42 | 0 reaction(s) | add reaction | add news |
 It isn’t often to hear a record in two parts and have it make sense, but Rachael Yamagata is not your ordinary singer. Elephants…Teeth Sinking Into Heart, released late last year, is raw, weathered and speaks of experience, without being negative, cynical or broken. The nine tracks on Elephants are darker and more vulnerable than the five gritty, defiant rock songs on Teeth Sinking Into Heart. Yamagata creates intimacy, while positioning strength after experiencing loss in this incredible, in-depth and deep collection.
“Elephants” which opens up the first half of the album, was written as she ran down a mountain in Woodstock, and when she returned up the mountain, the song was complete. The lyrics focus on the potential heartache when entering a new relationship, while metaphorically relating the nature of tigers and their reactions. “Horizon” contrasts this by love dying and needing to find balance again after your world is rocked with the great lyric, “I’ve been all around the world yet nothing is clear.”
“Sunday Afternoon” is accepting responsibility for the demise of a relationship, and allowing yourself to be depressed a bit, but not stop your life because of the relationship ending and is one of the most amazing and intense songs from Yamagata. “Over and Over” has great rain and nature imagery, and the need for repetition in the face of change. “What If I Leave” is the struggle to listen to your own instincts and gut feeling, but not finding the strength to leave just yet. The simplistic, yet emotionally striking lyrics, remind me of one of my favorite singer/songwriters, Shannon Wright, and Yamagata proves that scraping experience and observation, wrapped in feeling, is one of her strongest talents that translates perfectly in her music.
Teeth Sinking Into Heart’s up-tempo grittiness: don’t miss the coy “Sidedish Friend”, and the brilliant commentary of “Accident”). “Pause the Tragic Ending” is well-written with lyrics of such passion and vividly concise imagery: “Burn the air out of the room / Close the curtain, kill the lights / Only seconds left to tell you / How I’ll need you every night.” Teeth Sinking Into Heart has more self-responsibility and more responsibility to what she wants out of life, including the closing of “Don’t.”
Elephants…Teeth Sinking Into Heart is one of the most in-depth, intimate and deep collection of the human experience of relationships, self-esteem, discovery and the responsibility of life’s cycles I’ve heard in years. I look forward to hearing more greatness from Rachael Yamagata.
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