[2009-04-14] The Handsome Family "Honey Moon" (Carrot Top)

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:31 pm

Product Description
2009 release, their eighth studio album overall. Honey Moon takes place under bowed branches and deep within winding corn mazes. The release celebrates the duo's 20th year of marriage with a series of love songs that sharply contrast the dark themes of their previous seven albums. Full of an awed sense of emotion in the face of nature's mysteries, Brett Sparks (music) and Rennie Sparks (lyrics) branch from their usual canon of the dark and mysterious on Honey Moon, to establish a theme rooted in the tradition of 19th century romanticism. For the first time there is no body count. It is an album of transcendence, of touching the divine, if only for a moment, through our love of someone else, even if he is a katydid.

1. Linger, Let Me Linger
2. Little Sparrows
3. My Friend
4. When You Whispered
5. The Loneliness of Magnets
6. Junebugs
7. A Thousand Diamond Rings
8. Love Is Like
9. The Petrified Forest
10. Wild Wood
11. Darling, My Darling
12. The Winding Corn Maze

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Linda · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:32 pm

http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generala ... fid1=36186

Handsome Family Return With An Album of Love Songs

1/29/2009 By Brock Thiessen

Alt-country darlings the Handsome Family have announced they will celebrate the release of their eighth album proper in 2009, as well as the duo’s 20th year in marriage.

With love being in the air, the band’s Brett and Rennie Sparks have appropriately titled their latest Honey Moon and according to the couple, fans should brace themselves for a change. No longer are the duo delving into dark ballads of murder, death and skull-harbouring swamp, but rather, well, love songs.

Along with a wedding anniversary, Rennie Sparks said that a pivotal point inspired the Handsome Family to shift gears. "We were driving over some mountains in New Zealand listening to the Platters singing ‘Twilight Time,’ and I could actually feel that gorgeous song healing little wounds all through my body,” she said in a statement. “Life felt almost unbearably bittersweet after the song ended and I felt I had no choice except to sit down and try to write my way back into that mysterious palace where heavenly shades of night are falling."

And apparently those “shades of night” are falling on everything from country and bluegrass to R&B to pop to even a rock ballad or two. "Each song should be its own world, have its own style. So it's a record of 12 self-contained entities,” Brett Sparks said, adding: "This record represents a concerted attempt to flex all of our songwriting muscles. Honey Moon is more musically and technically complex than anything I have ever done. I fell in love with the studio anew."

To hear some of this new direction first hand, several of the tracks are currently streaming on the Handsome Family's MySpace page and the album is due out April 14 courtesy of Carrot Top Records.

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:06 pm

Bump: added finalised tracklisting to the first post.

[2009-04-14] The Handsome Family "Honey Moon" (Carrot Top)

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