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Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection 2

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1.
Oh to see that it’s clear To breathe in out in our To compress that guilt and misery To have a lack of sympathy Get your foot inside the door Quietly and inconspicuously To harbor all that hate, what a waste Of an echo I guess ignorance is bliss There’s so many of us so many of us To shut the door to leave us dry Does it pay to be privy To harbor all that hate , what a waste Of an echo A policy to silence A spine you’ve never had Clueless and cruel , clueless and cruel To harbor all that hate, what a waste Of an echo
2.
This is kingdom weather Couldn't ask for more Doesn’t get much better Let’s see what the days got in store I see shades of green Every colors brighter Palpable it seems I can taste my true loves laughter Sprawled out in silence It all makes sense Everything is quiet Your hair feathered on my chest 嫌なことばかりじゃないさ たのしいことたくさんあるさ 気持ちいいとこへ (It's not all I hate There are so many fun things to do to a comfortable place) Day Lilly’s blossom, blue bonnets rise Down from the mountain Where the fetal valley lies This is kingdom weather Couldn’t ask for more Doesn’t get much better I can taste my true loves laughter 嫌なことばかりじゃないさ たのしいことたくさんあるさ 気持ちいいとこへ (It's not all I hate There are so many fun things to do to a comfortable place) 嫌なことばかりじゃないさ たのしいことたくさんあるさ Kingdom weatherへ
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Green Trees 03:11
Green trees gentle sway Through the windy sky Sunlight trickles on the estate The terrain stretches wide So you’ll hide into night All the multitudes severed away All those childhood memories Disappear with age Trembling in fear, nothing is quite so clear Did you lose your way Please remember my name The bus was late again Down the street from petits lane I’ll just sit here and wait I think I lost my way Through a shady storm of grey This town will be the death of me if I stay All those childhood memories Disappear with age Trembling in fear, nothing is quite so clear Did you lose your way Please remember my name
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Out of Focus 03:54
Sun is setting, now hurry home Castle crumbles without a throne Through the veins a river runs In discontent the winter comes The common crane That’s hard to frame Feeling out of focus Don’t take pity on this man No need for you to hold my hand Could we just sit and stare Take some time and breath the air Words like Maldon salts, awaken old thoughts Feeling out of focus I’ll always love my little girl Can’t say it but your my world I’ll hold you close to my chest From here til eternal rest To gander a glimpse of yourself Feeling out of focus
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High in the country, betwixt and between The tail end of nothingness And the mighty sea That’s where the light is Shining bright from the hill That’s where my love can be found Waiting at the window sill In a house made of stone I built with my hands That crumbles when she’s all alone The mortar turns to sand I left in a hurry Called to serve and to save I fought for a country That put me in my grave And the bugle calls And the rouse was played That sweet song I sang And the flowers I laid High in the country, betwixt and between The tail end of nothingness And the mighty sea
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My body my temple my only apparatus That loneliness creeps up inside Oh It shudders and chatters away The church on the hill The rain that sits still The gift you keep on giving to the town you will, I think I’ve found my place It’s always bloody freezing There’s mist in the corners of the ceiling In a cold damp valley Much to my dismay I need to start the day I chase that sun but it keeps running away The evening calls my name The creature that hides in the depths of the dam can’t shake it off how lucky I am How lucky we are today Rain coat you’ll never take off Wash clothes hanging in the loft In a cold damp valley It’s always bloody freezing There’s mist in the corners of the ceiling In a cold damp valley In a cold damp valley
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It’s that same day departure From a world that couldn’t care So hide those tears with laughter It’s time to get out of here I don’t trust this heavy weather Or anything in sight You were meant to be helping How little help you’ve been It’s that same day departure The state we’re in a mess So load up the dogs and your belongings Put your love one by your side It’s that same day departure Let’s all say our goodbyes

about

Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection 2, sees the Nashville-based musician step further from the pedal steel and towards center stage. Released on the evergreen Full Time Hobby label, this new collection of tracks is a kaleidoscopic collection of folk, jazz, and pop, cut though with immaculately-rendered songwriting.

Romford to Nashville is hardly the most well-trodden of paths, but for Spencer Cullum it was a way of getting to the essential heart of pedal steel, what was then and remains to this day his musical raison d'être. Growing up in the large East London town brought him early exposure to classic pub rock by way of his father such as Dr. Feelgood and Thin Lizzy, and farther-flung music by way of his mother, such as Talking Heads and Lou Reed. However, it was learning pedal steel from legendary English player B. J. Cole that set him on the path he still walks today. After touring with Nashville-based groups and hearing tales of “seasoned Nashville steel players”, the young musician upped sticks and found a “nice little crowd of weirdos” in his chosen city.

Cullum has always maintained a somewhat silent presence - even now saying “I still want to hide behind my pedal steel in fear” - but 2020 saw him release his debut solo effort, Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection. Despite his project with Jeremy Fetzer, Steelism, showing off more of his talents, never before had he felt the limelight so firmly on him.

Although …Coin Collection’s modus operandi was "a very quintessential English folk record, but with really good Nashville players”, Cullum says of ...Coin Collection 2 that “I wanted to be different. I wanted to try and pull away from wearing my influences on my sleeve… I was trying to pick out ideas that were new to me. You can never escape your musical influences but I wanted them to be more hidden sub-consciously than upfront.” Though you can pick out the odd similarity to other things here and there - The Beach Boys’ Friends LP, perhaps, or The Incredible String Band, or Joni Mitchell - the thing is decidedly Cullum’s own. What’s also reassuring is that there hasn’t been some giant sonic leap from …Coin Collection, rather that the beautifully sun-kissed, English country garden, bees-buzzing-round-lager atmosphere has remained, but complicated, weirded, deepened.

Much in the same way that the album doesn’t wear its influences (Amon Duul II, Skip Spence, Ennio Morricone, Chu Kosaka, Michael Chapman) lightly but rather is steeped in them and toys with them, Cullum brought in a host of guests to turn…Coin Collection 2 loose from being a purely solo effort. Yuma Abe provides fractured, low-register chorus vocals that accentuate the ever-so-slightly mournful air to ‘Kingdom Weather’, while Dana Gavanski provides beautiful harmony lines in ‘What A Waste Of An Echo’. Despite the number of collaborators and players (also including Rich Ruth, Erin Rae, and Caitlin Rose) things never seem too crowded or brimming with too many ideas. Instead Cullum marshalls each moving party expertly.

Another reason …Coin Collection 2 feels so seamless is down to how quickly it was recorded. The album was tracked in two days (in Nashville, naturally), then vocals and strings were added afterwards. Cullum says “I like moving quickly. If you procrastinate the naivety is lost.” These songs, despite being somewhat calm and considered, have a certain essential precision to them. ‘Cold Damp Valley’ is light on its feet, deftly switching from intro to verse to chorus to post-chorus like the best of that gorgeously lazy Arthur-era Kinks. Likewise, ‘What A Waste Of An Echo’ has a constantly burbling undertow anchored by pattering drums and a scorching guitar solo. It’s this sense of undertow that is key in unlocking this album’s delights. In the same way that Cullum provides the pedal steel undertow of many huge artists’ music - Kesha, Lambchop, and more recently Angel Olsen - the genius in …Coin Collection 2 is in its subtlety, in what it murmurs rather than shouts.

Indeed, due to Cullum’s languid Romford burr (pitched somewhere between Robert Wyatt and Ray Davies), it only becomes clear when listening closely that some of the lyrics deal with weighty themes like dementia and violence. Cullum says that “I sat for a long time with the songs and wanted to find my own identity”, and …Coin Collection 2 suggests you do the same.

credits

released April 14, 2023

Vocals:
Spencer Cullum, Dana Gavanski, Erin Rae, Yuma Abe, Dominic Billett, Caitlin Rose, Annie Williams.

Spencer Cullum: Acoustic & Nylon guitars, Pedal Steel and Mellotron
Dominic Billett: Drums , Wurlitzer, Bass and Synths
G. Maxwell Zemanovic: Drums and Piano
Adam Bednarik: Bass and Upright Bass
Sean Thompson: Electric Guitar
Jim Hoke: Flutes, Clarinet and Autoharp
Rich Ruth: Synthesizers and Electric Guitar
Ethan Ballinger: Mandolin
Austin Hoke: Cello
Laura Epling: Violin
Jordan Lehning: String Arrangement for ‘That Same Day Departure’

Produced by Jeremy Ferguson & Spencer Cullum

Recorded and Engineered by Jeremy Ferguson at Battletapes Studios, Nashville, TN

Mixed by Jeremy Ferguson
Mastered By John Baldwin at Infrasonic Mastering

Album Photography by Angelina Castillo
Album Art by Darryl Norson
Styled by Sofia Carlson

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Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection Nashville, Tennessee

From London to Music City, Spencer Cullum offers an homage to the ’60s and ‘70s folk-rock heroes of his homelands.

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