The Letting Go

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The Letting Go
The Letting Go cover
Studio album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Released 19 September 2006
Recorded Valgeir Sigurðsson
Label Drag City
Producer Valgeir Sigurðsson
Professional reviews
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy chronology
Sings Greatest Palace Music
(2004)		 The Letting Go
(2006)		 Ask Forgiveness
(2007)

The Letting Go is the name of a 2006 album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. It was recorded in Reykjavík, Iceland and produced by Valgeir Sigurðsson, who is known for his work with the Icelandic artist Björk. Dawn McCarthy of Faun Fables also sings on the album.

The album's name comes from the last lines of the Emily Dickinson poem that starts "After a Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes"[1]:

This is the hour of lead
Remembered if outlived,
As freezing persons recollect the snow--
First chill, then stupor, then the letting go.

[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 & 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] Personnel

[edit] References

  1. ^ Hepburn, Peter (September 22, 2006). Bonnie Prince Billy: The Letting Go. Cokemachineglow. Retrieved on 2007-05-10.
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Will Oldham / Palace Music / Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Studio albums:
There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You (1993)  · Days in the Wake (1994)  · Viva Last Blues (1995)  · Arise Therefore (1996)  · Joya (1997)  · I See a Darkness (1999)  · Ease Down the Road (2001)  · Master and Everyone (2003)  · Sings Greatest Palace Music (2004)  · Superwolf (2005)  · The Brave and the Bold (2006)  · The Letting Go (2006)  · Wai Notes (2007)  · Lie Down in the Light (2008)
Live albums:
Get the Fuck on Jolly Live (2001)  · Summer in the Southeast (2005)  · Wilding in the West (2008)
EPs:
Goat Songs (1993)  · An Arrow Through the Bitch (1994)  · Hope (1994)  · The Mountain (1995)  · Songs Put Together For (The Broken Giant) (1996)  · Western Music (1997)  · Black/Rich Music (1998)  · Blue Lotus Feet (1998)  · Dream of a Drunk Black Southern Eagle (1999)  · Ode Music (2000)  · More Revery (live version) (2000)  · All Most Heaven (2000)  · Get on Jolly (2000)  · More Revery (studio version) (2001)  · Amalgamated Sons of Rest (2002)  · Slitch Music (2002)  · Seafarers Music (2004)  · Pebbles and Ripples (2004)  · I Gave You (2005)  · Strange Form of Life (2007)  · Ask Forgiveness (2007)
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