Tall Tall Shadow

Tall Tall Shadow
Tall Tall Shadow cover art
Studio album by Basia Bulat
Released September 30, 2013
Genre Folk
Americana
Length 34:15
Label Secret City Records
Producer Tim Kingsbury, Mark Lawson
Basia Bulat chronology

Heart of My Own
(2010)		 Tall Tall Shadow
(2013)

Tall Tall Shadow is the third full-length album by Canadian singer-songwriter Basia Bulat, released September 30, 2013 on Secret City Records.[1] Some early copies were sold with a limited-edition bonus disc, titled Live in London, which featured live performances of five songs from the original album.

The album was produced by Tim Kingsbury and Mark Lawson.[2]

The album was inspired in part by the death of someone in Bulat's personal life, although she has not provided extensive detail about it to the media.[3] At the time of the death, Bulat had an entirely different album ready to record, but felt that she could no longer connect to the material.[3] Instead, she decided to make an album which acknowledged the pain she was going through while ultimately being hopeful and uplifting.[4]

Some of the album's tracks were recorded in a Royal Canadian Legion hall in Toronto, Ontario's Beaches neighbourhood.[5]

The album was a shortlisted nominee for the Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2014, and for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize.[6]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Basia Bulat. 

No. Title Length
1. "Tall Tall Shadow"   4:03
2. "Five, Four"   3:59
3. "Promise Not to Think About Love"   2:23
4. "It Can't Be You"   3:58
5. "Wires"   3:31
6. "The City With No Rivers"   3:23
7. "Someone"   3:15
8. "Paris or Amsterdam"   3:05
9. "Never Let Me Go"   4:14
10. "From Now On"   2:24

Live in London

  1. "The City With No Rivers"
  2. "Tall Tall Shadow"
  3. "Five, Four"
  4. "Someone"
  5. "It Can't Be You"

References

  1. ↑ "Juno-nominated Basia Bulat’s third album ‘Tall Tall Shadow’ informed by loss". Canadian Press, October 2, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Basia Bulat Casts 'Tall Tall Shadow' With Some Arcade Fire Light". Huffington Post, October 11, 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Basia Bulat steps into the Shadow". Toronto Sun, October 10, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Basia Bulat walks on the dark side". The Georgia Straight, December 4, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Ontario folk singer Basia Bulat steps out of her comfort zone". The Globe and Mail, October 11, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Arcade Fire, Drake, Shad make Polaris Music Prize short list". CTV News, July 15, 2014.