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Album Details

• Artist: Carrie Biell
• Album: When Your Feet Hit The Stars
• Label: Carrie Biell
• Year of Release: 2007
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• Reviewed by: kev_stev on 2007-07-30

Carrie Biell’s intimate fourth release When Your Feet Hit the Stars is an amalgam of soul and country, marked with thought-provoking, melancholic lyrics and sparse, nuanced instrumentation.  There is nothing explosive about this album; if you are looking for oscillating dynamics or any contemporary pop/rock influences, this album is not for you.  Stars is marked with aesthetic beauty; the music is soft, poignant, emotional, and sometimes very subtle, which is not unlike Biell’s songwriting.  The very emotional and revealing fifth track entitled “Gone Without Me” has Biell singing of her mother’s blindness and her resulting indignation with God, as pensive violins play somberly throughout the magnificently agonizing song.  Following is the more upbeat “Parading,” where Biell’s voice loses a bit of clarity with her ascending passionate vocals and the crescendo where she begs, “Come here with me in the dark.”

The only aspect of the music worth critiquing is the bareness of the album, which can be almost too intimate or too minimized in instrumentation to be enjoyed in a public setting.  When Your Feet Hit the Stars may be critiqued as being boring or dull, though personally I enjoy the warmth of the album and find Biell to be both endearing and intriguing.  If you like Jenny Lewis or Azure Ray, possibly even M. Ward, I would venture into When Your Feet Hit the Stars; its beauty should no go unnoticed.

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