The Dry Spells’ “Too Soon For Flowers” is NPR Album of the Year!!!

The Dry Spells

Bob Boilen, the creator and host of NPR’s All Songs Considered, selected the Dry Spells’ “Too Soon For Flowers” yesterday as his pick for “Album of the Year”. Congratulations to the Dry Spells!

Listen to a stream of the show “Discussion: The Year In Music, 2009” HERE

Purchase the LP + Download at the Endless Nest store HERE

…and check out what other people have been saying recently:

“Lush, eerie, dreamy and haunting, gorgeous vocal harmonies, minimal percussion, equal parts seventies British folk and seventies Laurel Canyon pop, woven into a witchy gothic brew that is totally enchanting. Strings soar, unfurling melancholy melodies, and guitars jangle, but it’s the female vocals that seal the deal, a la Sandy Denny, Jacqui McShee of Pentangle, Bobbie Watson from Comus, Stevie Nicks, you get the idea, bewitching and ethereal, raw and powerful and emotional, and the harmonies, so captivating and otherworldly, wow. The Dry Spells manage to sound so timeless, this record definitely sounds contemporary, but if the lush production was dialed back just a little, this could easily have been some lost seventies psych folk reissue. Absolutely stunning. ”
– Aquarius Records

“They balance folk and the kind smoldering 70’s rock balladry that moved Stevie Nicks’ shawl to action, bent strings in Pentangle and Fairport and has more recently been embraced by fellow Frisco-dwellers The Sandwitches. […] The band manages to wring soaring emotion and sadness out with a triumphant and wide-flung delivery rather than adopt the tendency of latter day folk-rock to wrestle with and finally succumb to overwhelming melancholy. A definite rare surprise in a bewilderingly narrowing field of entrancing folk.”
– Raven Sings The Blues


The Dry Spells LPs are in! …also performing on West Coast Live!

Dry Spells in a box

The Dry Spells LPs arrived at the Empty Cellar HQ this evening! They are available for sale at our store, and will be distributed by Revolver (official release date November 24th). We will ship all of the pre-sale orders tomorrow. Anybody know how to get rid of a pallet? Perhaps a beach bonfire…

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This is just in time for their performance on West Coast Live. Tune in at 10 AM Saturday, November 14th to your local affiliate while chomping your Wheaties for some lovely live tunes by the Dry Spells.


The Dry Spells debut album, Too Soon For Flowers, out now on CD. LP available for pre-order!

 

Track Listing:

01) Lost Daughter
02) Black Is The Color
03) Sruti
04) The Golden Vanity
05) Evangeline
06) Too Soon For Flowers
07) The Crow
08) Batwood
09) Rhiannon

Antenna Farm has released The Dry Spells debut album, Too Soon For Flowers, on CD. Empty Cellar Records will be  releasing the vinyl LP next month (September). It will be limited to a single pressing of 500 copies and is available for pre-order from the Endless Nest store.

Listen to “Sruti” a track off Too Soon For Flowers on NPR’s Song Of The Day!

This is what we have to say about it:
Too Soon For Flowers marks the debut of San Francisco’s female fronted psych-folk ensemble, The Dry Spells. Recorded by Tim Green (Fucking Champs), and featuring members of Citay, this album is an impressive set of epic genre-defying compositions. Existing somewhere near the sonic intersection of Fairport Convention, Fleetwood Mac, and some heavy spaced-out dub, Too Soon For Flowers transitions effortlessly between eastern-influenced sustenatos, ethereal folk, and fuzzed-out psychedelic crescendos. Recommended for fans of Linda Perhacs, Cocteau Twins, and Paula Frazer, this record evokes numerous influences without sacrificing a drop of creativity. This is a mysterious and woodsy album with many subtle nuances that require repeated listens. Keeping with the times, the LP comes with a high-quality digital download of the full album including The Dry Spells stunning rendition of Fleetwood Mac’s “Rhiannon”. Limited to 500 copies.

Check out what other people have been saying about the CD:

“Every element of this record is impressive – the playing first rate, the songs accessible but without cliché, the producing (that’s Tim Green) sharp and clear. You get the sense that all five principals know a good deal about music, not just folk and rock, but classical, madrigal singing, raga and other styles, and have folded all these ideas seamlessly into a cohesive statement.”
— Dusted Magazine

“The group’s whimsical yet often brooding sound gives way to imagery evoking woodland like wonder coupled with a dark, gothic sensibility….Brilliant. Of course, you’ll want to go back and listen in on their subtle nuances over and over.”
— Delusions Of Adequacy

“The band takes folk and rock influences and weaves them into mystic, heady tapestries worthy of such Californian forebears as Fleetwood Mac.”
— Pop Matters

“Beautifully recorded on tape by the Fucking Champs’ Tim Green at his Louder Studios, The Dry Spell echo with reverb-y lyric guitar, plinging bells, a touch of droning melodica, and baklava-sweet harmonies that evoke the minimal post-punk of Electrelane and the maximal ethno-folk-punk of Camper Van Beethoven.”
— SF Bay Guardian

“Mixes the rockier side of Fairport Convention with the folkier side of Fleetwood Mac…the perfect weekend wake-up music.”
— NPR, All Songs Considered