adventures in your own backyard
Advtures in Your Own Backyard is the fourth studio album by Canadian musician Patrick Watson, released in April 2012. It is the band's follow-up to the Polaris Music Prize-nominated 2009 release Wood Arms, but by comparison is a musically simpler and more emotional album.
Advtures in Your Own Backyard was recorded almost tirely in a home studio next door to Watson's apartmt in the Plateau neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec.
They felt that they would produce their best work by avoiding the time constraint and stress of recording in a professional studio,
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According to drummer Robbie Kuster, the relaxed and informal vironmt "really let [the band] dig in to the writing and the arranging" of the album.
"We did record it in our backyard, so there’s that aspect, but to me, backyard means the people you have around in the back of your head, not where you have your barbecues. Everyone has their own definition of what a backyard means, and I also think that after seeing so much while travelling, it was exotic to come home and pay atttion to the details of where we live."[6]
Though the band is named after its lead singer, Watson, he maintains that "wh people say 'Patrick Watson' I don’t think of me... I think of an tity"
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And has cited the track "Morning Sheets" as an example of a song whose tune was writt by someone else (Kuster and Mishka Stein).
In 2011, the band had already revealed that they planned to release an album sometime in the next year, but the title, track listing, release dates and tour dates were not officially announced until January 25, 2012.
The track "Into Giants" was also released for streaming online and later officially made available for purchase as a single on February 21, 2012. In anticipation of the album's release, American music magazine Paste named Patrick Watson one of "10 International Acts to Watch for in 2012".
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National Public Radio hosts Bob Boil and Robin Hilton were in attdance and reacted very favourably to the band's performance; Hilton was moved to tears by what he called a "magical" momt that was his "most profound... of the day", while Boil called it the best show of the festival and predicted the album would be one of the best of 2012.
Patrick Watson Advtures on YouTube. The first in the band's web series, this video was filmed in Rouyn-Noranda in September 2011 and released online in April 2012.
To accompany the album, the band will release a series of web videos described by Watson as a collection of "stories in people's backyards". The videos will combine musical performances as well as documtary elemts and are inspired by American filmmaker David Lynch's 2009 web series Interview Project.
Patrick Watson: Adventures In Your Own Backyard (cd)
The first video, released on April 16, was shot in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec during the Emerging Music Festival (Frch: Festival de musique émergte) in September 2011.
It features an interview with a local restaurateur Conrad Morasse as well as a small outdoor concert by the town's train tracks.
Everybody wanted to make a touching album, twelve songs that just touched people. I think that was our only rule. You know, we're known for [using] bicycles and branches [as instrumts], but I think that writing great songs is still the most important thing for a band to be doing.
Patrick Watson Adventures In Your Own Backyard Album Cover Sticker
The songs of Advtures in Your Own Backyard are described as "boisterous and pretty, alive and roaming, fairytales with Watson’s skimming falsetto",
Like the band's previous release, Wood Arms, the album contains a few unusual instrumts, including a glass marimba on one track, but in geral features less of the experimtal sound, opting instead for "an eloqut, perhaps deceptive, simplicity"
According to Watson, the album is much subtler and "a bit more grounded, less airy... still kind of dreamy but with its feet on the ground",
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And he expressed a desire for his audice to focus more on the emotions behind the music than simply on the instrumts used in its creation.
He also expressed a certain dissatisfaction with the previous album, saying that singing its songs didn't give him the "melodic goosebumps", and for this album wanted to write songs that just "felt really good to sing".
Writing for The Globe and Mail, music critic Brad Wheeler noted the band's stylistic changes, calling Advtures in Your Own Backyard "a dreamy bath of chamber-pop and fancy cabaret, less clacky without the kitch-utsil or bike-wheel percussion of Wood Arms and slightly more grounded than Close to Paradise".
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It was also described by another critic as a "psive and downtempo affair", with "slow-burning melodies [that] take tire songs to ignite memorable hooks".
The track "Strange Crooked Road" contains stories from the family of a frid of the band, while "Words in the Fire" was writt at a campfire in northern Quebec.
In addition, the album's lyrics were intded to provoke the lister into taking a second look at the world around them, which Watson explains by saying,
Patrick Watson 'adventures In Your Own Backyard'
"Fundamtally, I’d like to write songs that people can carry with them in their daily life and bring them some sort of advture. Maybe they’ll notice stuff they’re missing that’s right beside them. I hope my music can allow people to catch little details, like wh they’re walking down the street, and bring a little bit of creativity and magic to the everyday world."[6] Reception [ edit]
Advtures in Your Own Backyard mostly received positive reviews from critics. Olivier Robillard Laveaux of Voir called it "magnifict" and "a success in every way",
Jian Ghomeshi of the CBC Radio One show Q called it a "really beautiful record" and predicted that it would garner the band a lot of atttion.
First Listen: Patrick Watson, 'adventures In Your Own Backyard'
However, Dave Simpson of The Guardian gave the album a mixed review, calling it "pretty stuff, with breathtaking production which doesn't quite conceal a shortage of strong songs" and saying that the album "doesn't land ough killer blows".
This opinion was echoed by Chris Bilton of The Grid, who said that though the album contains "worthy sonic advtures", few of them are "memorable ough to get stuck in your head".
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