Who Killed Amanda Palmer

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Who Killed Amanda Palmer

Studio album by Amanda Palmer

Released

September 16, 2008 (North America)

Recorded

2007-2008 in Nashville, TN

Amanda Palmer chronology

Amanda Palmer
(1997)

Who Killed Amanda Palmer
(2008)

Who Killed Amanda Palmer is the forthcoming debut solo effort by Amanda Palmer, lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the "Brechtian punk cabaret" duo The Dresden Dolls.

The album was recorded in Nashville, TN with collaborator Ben Folds^[1] and will be released on Roadrunner Records, the label for The Dresden Dolls. The name of the album is a reference to the series Twin Peaks, which revolves around events surrounding the death of Laura Palmer.

Certain tracks will will also feature Folds on percussion and keyboards and former Rasputina member Zoë Keating on cello.^[2]

In 2007, Palmer self-released the song "I Will Follow You Into the Dark," a cover of the Death Cab for Cutie song, on her MySpace. The ID3 tags listed the source album as Nashville. Fans began discussing the possibility of the solo album being named such, but Palmer dispelled rumors on the Dresden Dolls messageboard, stating:

"that was titled "nashville" because that is the location that i am recording the solo album....in nashville, at ben folds' studio, with ben, who is producing the record and playing on it. [...] it will not be the album title unless i decide to confuse everybody and come up with an album title that will throw EVERYBODY ....ie "nashville blues" in which case shoot me^[3]

It has not been confirmed whether the album will feature "I Will Follow You Into the Dark," although the song has been released on the Peace (for Mom) compilation released by Brainwashed Recordings.

Palmer confirmed to the Boston Phoenix in April 2007 that the album was indeed titled Who Killed Amanda Palmer?, although another working title is That's Amanda Fucking Palmer to You. She joked that the latter was unlikely to encourage being stocked at notably conservative media chain Walmart.^[4]

About the content of the album, Palmer said,

"A lot of the songs are piano ballads that never found a home on a Dolls record, because I hadn't wanted to overload the record with slow material. But there's a really intense, exciting energy to the tracks at the same time. It definitely won't drag."^[4]

Additionally, she has said,

"We've been adding everything from organs and Leslie cabinets [keyboard speaker] to strings, horns, and tympani. The final result should be biblical."^[2]

The magazine Alternative Press has named this album one of most anticipated albums of 2008.^[5]

On April 20, 2008, Amanda confirmed in an interview with Penguins in the Desert on the WHRW radio station that the release date would be September 16, 2008. She also mentioned that the album will be remastered on April 25 because Ben was not happy with the original mastering job. A companion book created in conjunction with Neil Gaiman was also mentioned but no more details were given.^[6]

[edit] Track listing

On June 6, 2008, in a preview for an interview with e-zine TheMagazine, Amanda confirmed the tracklist for the album,^[7] stating that advance copies of the album had been sent out the reviewers in Europe. (The song lengths are unknown.)

Who Killed Amanda Palmer
#	Title	Length
1.	"Astronaut"
2.	"Runs In The Family"
3.	"Ampersand"
4.	"Leeds United"
5.	"Blake Says"
6.	"Strength Through Music"
7.	"Guitar Hero"
8.	"Have To Drive"
9.	"What's The Use of Wondrin"
10.	"Oasis"
11.	"The Point Of It All"
12.	"Another Year"