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“Town Call Patience is a roadmap,” says Dave Slomin, song-writer and singer for Waiting For Henry. “If our first album was an homage to the ghosts we all leave behind us, this one is about listening to those ghosts so we can look ahead with as much wisdom as possible.” After hearing the finished tracks, Mitch Easter, the album’s producer and legendary guru of R.E.M.’s classic albums Murmur and Reckoning, understood Slomin’s sentiment, affirming: “This record is really heavy and emotional, which to me is just wonderful! We hear lots of music that sounds perfectly good, and just washes over us. Town Called Patience really does give me the chills, wow! I love that, I always want that definable thing that “gets to me,” you know?” From a listener’s perspective the band’s musical “roadmap” is a joyous experience. “Their music,” noted Holland’s Currents of Pop, “draws not only from the archives of alt-country, but also incorporates influences from the heyday of the American underground.” To find this joy, Waiting For Henry looked to the past for a path forward. After their critically acclaimed 2013 debut album, Ghosts & Compromise, garnered lots of loose R.E.M. comparisons, the band took that as kismet, seeking out Easter for the follow up. “We took a blind shot,” says Slomin, “and sent Mitch our first album through a friend who recorded with him years ago. He responded right away, which to us was magic in itself.”
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TRACK LISTINGS
1. Musconetcong
2. Gutterball
3. Hangnail
4. Flipclock
5. Matter of Time
6. Palms
7. Parsippany
8. Could It Be
9. Town Called Patience
10. Angel on the Run
11. Wrong
12. In the End
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