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Amy Ray and Elias Creative Director Greg Griffith :: Lung of Love

Amy Ray Lung of Love Produced and Co-Written Greg Griffith  Creative Director, Elias Arts New York
Check out Amy Ray’s (of The Indigo Girls) new solo album. Produced and co-written by Elias’ very own east coast creative director, Greg Griffith!

American Songwriter wrote:
If there’s one thing Amy Ray fans can count on, it’s the sometime-Indigo Girl’s kinship with incredible harmonies. And it only make sense that on her most collaborative solo album to date (Ray, usually a lone songwriting ranger, co-penned Lung of Love with producer Greg Griffith), those harmonies keep its 10 songs in-tact.

There are some odd choices on Lung of Love, which, for better or worse, has the feel of a record that came together with great passion and immediacy, but not much belaboring over sequencing and synchronicity. The twangy “When You’re Gone You’re Gone” is a tepid opener that allows a wide berth for subsequent power-pop gem “Glow.” The one-two punch could have worked, and may have proved more awkward in reverse, but that surge gets muted once “Glow” fades into the decided melancholy of “I Didn’t,” foreshadowing a tendency to sidestep any binding, dominant energy…
You can read the full article here.

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Lung of Love - Amy Ray

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Check out Jonathan Elias’ Prayer Cycle :: Path to Zero page here.

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