Powder Burns

Powder Burns
Studio album by The Twilight Singers
Released May 16, 2006
Recorded 2005-2006
Genre Indie rock
Length 48:48
Label One Little Indian Records
Producer Greg Dulli, Mike Napolitano, Mathias Schneeberger
The Twilight Singers chronology

Greg Dulli's Amber Headlights
(2005)		 Powder Burns
(2006)		 A Stitch in Time (EP)
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Pitchfork Media (7.9/10)[2]
The Skinny [3]
Transform Online (positive)[4]

Powder Burns is the fourth album by Greg Dulli's The Twilight Singers (not counting Dulli's solo album Amber Headlights. It was released on May 16, 2006 via One Little Indian Records on CD and double 12" vinyl. During the recordings in 2005, Greg Dulli was aided by Manuel Agnelli, of the italian rock band Afterhours, who co-wrote "My Time (Has Come)" and "The Conversation", the lyrics for which were inspired by the 1974 Francis Ford Coppola film of the same name.[5] [6] "My Time (Has Come)" was first released in 2005 as "White Widow" on Afterhours' Ballads for Little Hyenas, which in turn was co-produced by Dulli. Other collaborators on this album are Joseph Arthur, Jeff Klein and Ani DiFranco. The same recording sessions yielded the follow-up EP A Stitch in Time, released in December 2006.

Powder Burns was partly recorded with extra power generators in a deserted New Orleans just after the floods caused by Hurricane Katrina.

It was released to extremely positive reviews, and actor/comedian Denis Leary called it "one of the best rock albums I've heard in 10 years,"[7] also putting the song "Bonnie Brae" in Rescue Me, his Emmy nominated TV series. In addition to that the song "There's Been an Accident" featured on the film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel, Choke.

The Twilight Singers made their live television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on January 3, 2007, performing "Forty Dollars" on YouTube and "Sublime" on YouTube (which did not air).

A cover version of the song "I'm Ready" featured in the HBO series True Blood, in the episode "I Don't Wanna Know."

Track listing

All songs by Dulli except where noted.

CD

  1. "Toward the Waves" – 0:49
  2. "I'm Ready" – 3:04
  3. "There's Been an Accident" – 5:17
  4. "Bonnie Brae" – 4:46
  5. "Forty Dollars" – 3:51
  6. "Candy Cane Crawl" – 4:27
  7. "Underneath the Waves" – 4:28 (Dulli/Skibic)
  8. "My Time (Has Come)" – 4:23 (Dulli/Agnelli)
  9. "Dead to Rights" – 4:25
  10. "The Conversation" – 3:04 (Dulli/Agnelli)
  11. "Powder Burns" – 5:52
  12. "I Wish I Was" – 4:20 (Dulli/Ford)

Double 12" vinyl

Side 1 ("Once I count the numbers down"):

  1. "Toward the Waves" – 0:49
  2. "I'm Ready" – 3:04
  3. "There's Been an Accident" – 5:17
  4. "Bonnie Brae" – 4:46

Side 2 ("To the end or there around"):

  1. "Forty Dollars" – 3:51
  2. "Candy Cane Crawl" – 4:27
  3. "Underneath the Waves" – 4:28

Side 3 ("Free, or thus, forever bound"):

  1. "My Time (Has Come)" – 4:23
  2. "Dead to Rights" – 4:25
  3. "The Conversation" – 3:04

Side 4 ("For forever's coming down"):

  1. "Powder Burns" – 5:52
  2. "I Wish I Was" – 4:20

Personnel

Singles

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Pitchfork Media review
  3. ↑ The Skinny review
  4. ↑ Transform Online review
  5. ↑ "Heavely Shades". Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  6. ↑ "Living the movie, As sound". Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  7. ↑ Endelman, Michael (May 26, 2006). "Denis Leary’s five favorite songs". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2008-04-08.