The Letting Go

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The Letting Go
The Letting Go cover
Studio album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Released 2006
Recorded Valgeir Sigurðsson
Label Drag City
Producer(s) Valgeir Sigurðsson
Professional reviews
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy chronology
Superwolf
(2005)		 The Letting Go
(2006)


The Letting Go is the name of a 2006 album released by Will Oldham under the moniker Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. It was recorded in Reykjavík and produced by Valgeir Sigurðsson, who is known for his work with the Icelandic artist Björk. Dawn McCarthy of Faun Fables provides second vocals. It is named after the last lines of an Emily Dickinson poem that starts "After a Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes".[1]

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Love Comes to Me" – 4:31
  2. "Strange Form of Life" – 3:46
  3. "Wai" – 3:37
  4. "Cursed Sleep" – 5:35
  5. "No Bad News" – 4:45
  6. "Cold & Wet" – 2:21
  7. "Big Friday" – 2:43
  8. "Lay and Love" – 3:50
  9. "The Seedling" – 4:36
  10. "Then the Letting Go" – 5:19
  11. "God's Small Song" – 4:05
  12. "I Called You Back" – 7:53
  13. "Ebb Tide" (bonus track on some versions, "Untitled" on some versions) – 5:14

[edit] References

  1. ^ From a Cokemachineglow review of The Letting Go
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