Reprieve (album)

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Reprieve
Studio album by Ani DiFranco
Released	August 8, 2006
Recorded	2005–2006
Genre	Indie rock Folk rock
Label	Righteous Babe
Producer	Ani DiFranco
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Twisted Ear link
Ani DiFranco chronology
Knuckle Down (2005) Reprieve (2006) Canon (2007)

Reprieve is the fifteenth studio album by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, released on August 8, 2006.

Righteous Babe Records' website notes that only DiFranco's bassist Todd Sickafoose, who had accompanied her on her recent tours, would be performing on the album. The album has a dark, mournful, mellow sound reminiscent of 1999's To the Teeth and 2004's Educated Guess and features experimental arrangements with synthesizers, electronics and tape manipulation.

As the recording of the album was briefly interrupted due to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the album has a heavily political and vaguely conceptual undercurrent that "paints a haunting portrait of New Orleans as the water retreats and the natives continue to rebuild their lives."^[1]

The album cover was inspired by a picture of a real tree in Nagasaki which was partially destroyed by the atomic bomb. While the city around it lay in ruin, this one tree stood, half of it destroyed, the other untouched. DiFranco also references the eucalyptus tree in the title track about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

While the official release date of Reprieve was August 8, the album was made available for purchase on the iTunes Music Store between June 24 and June 27, 2006, possibly in error, as the album date on the site was listed as 2002.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 Production 4 Charts 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Track listing

1. "Hypnotized" – 4:11
2. "Subconscious" – 3:32
3. "In the Margins" – 3:13
4. "Nicotine" – 4:06
5. "Decree" – 3:43
6. "78% H₂O" – 3:30
7. "Millennium Theater" – 3:14
8. "Half-Assed" – 3:30
9. "Reprieve" – 2:45
10. "A Spade" – 4:24
11. "Unrequited" – 4:06
12. "Shroud" – 4:48
13. "Reprise" – 1:34

[edit] Personnel

• Ani DiFranco – acoustic guitar, keyboards/synths, programming, samples
• Todd Sickafoose – double bass, piano, Wurlitzer, pump organ, trumpet

[edit] Production

• Ani DiFranco – producer, engineer, artwork, design, mixing
• Mike Napolitano – engineer, mixing
• Todd Sickafoose – engineer
• Brent Lambert – mastering
• Brian Grunert – artwork, design
• Danny Clinch – photography

[edit] Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2006	The Billboard 200	46
2006	Top Independent Albums	3

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Reprieve at Righteous Babe Records

v • d • e Ani DiFranco Discography Studio albums Ani DiFranco · Not So Soft · Imperfectly · Puddle Dive · Like I Said: Songs 1990-91 · Out of Range · Not a Pretty Girl · Dilate · Little Plastic Castle · Up Up Up Up Up Up · To the Teeth · Revelling/Reckoning · Evolve · Educated Guess · Knuckle Down · Reprieve Live albums An Acoustic Evening With · Living in Clip · Women in (E)motion · So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter · Atlanta - 10.9.03 · Sacramento - 10.25.03 · Portland - 4.7.04 · Boston - 11.16.03 · Chicago - 1.17.04 · Madison - 1.25.04 · Rome - 11.15.04 · Carnegie Hall - 4.6.02 · Boston - 11.10.06 · Hamburg, Germany - 10.18.07 Compilation albums Canon EPs More Joy, Less Shame · Little Plastic Remixes · Swing Set Demos Demo tape Related articles Righteous Babe Records