CITY AND COLOUR
Dallas Green releases his 3rd solo album as a singer-songwriter under the name CITY AND COLOUR on Dine Alone Records, through Shock in Australia/ NZ. The album titled Little Hell is the follow-up to 2008’s ’Bring Me Your Love’, which was certified platinum in Canada and charted strongly in Australia. Alternately sparse and inviting, intense and delicate, Little Hell shows music fans another side of Dallas’ incredible songwriting skills, and features some of his finest songs to date.
Little Hell was recorded at Catherine North Studios in Hamilton, ON with producer/ engineer/ mixer Alex Newport (At The Drive-In, Mars Volta, Death Cab For Cutie). Fans got their first sneak preview of a brand new track from the upcoming album when an alternate version of the song titled ‘Northern Wind’ made its debut on a special Valentine’s Day episode of the hit series One Tree Hill. Dallas also performed on the episode as part of the show’s story line.
Little Hell – named after the album’s title track, a song that explores the little heavens and little hells that comprise a relationship – is the first of Green’s albums to be recorded and mixed to tape. his sonic move ultimately resulted in the album’s warm immediacy, allowing the songs to take on spaciousness previously unheard in City and Colour albums. The record allows Dallas to highlight all of the facets of his songwriting, from blues-tinged rockers to pedal steel-soaked acoustic gems. Songs like ‘Northern Wind’ have a beautiful intimacy, as if Dallas is in the same room and singing right to you, while ‘Sorrowing Man’ is dark and brooding, anchored by an ominous organ in the chorus. The record also highlights Dallas‘ impressive vocal range, from driving a full band on the rousing chorus of ‘Natural Disasters’ or sighing mellifluously on opener ‘We Found Each Other in the Dark’.
Little Hell was recorded at Catherine North Studios in Hamilton, ON with producer/ engineer/ mixer Alex Newport (At The Drive-In, Mars Volta, Death Cab For Cutie). Fans got their first sneak preview of a brand new track from the upcoming album when an alternate version of the song titled ‘Northern Wind’ made its debut on a special Valentine’s Day episode of the hit series One Tree Hill. Dallas also performed on the episode as part of the show’s story line.
Little Hell – named after the album’s title track, a song that explores the little heavens and little hells that comprise a relationship – is the first of Green’s albums to be recorded and mixed to tape. his sonic move ultimately resulted in the album’s warm immediacy, allowing the songs to take on spaciousness previously unheard in City and Colour albums. The record allows Dallas to highlight all of the facets of his songwriting, from blues-tinged rockers to pedal steel-soaked acoustic gems. Songs like ‘Northern Wind’ have a beautiful intimacy, as if Dallas is in the same room and singing right to you, while ‘Sorrowing Man’ is dark and brooding, anchored by an ominous organ in the chorus. The record also highlights Dallas‘ impressive vocal range, from driving a full band on the rousing chorus of ‘Natural Disasters’ or sighing mellifluously on opener ‘We Found Each Other in the Dark’.
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