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| Released | April 21, 2010 | ||
| Recorded | 2009-2010 | ||
| Genre | Folk, indie folk, Americana | ||
| Producer | Benjamin Mabry, Brent Holloman | ||
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Beta Radio's self-released debut album, Seven Sisters combines studio recorded material with home recorded tracks that were captured in Beta Radio guitarist Holloman's spare bedroom and living room.[1]Seven Sisters was originally conceived as an EP, but over the course of a few months morphed in to a full-length recording after the band left the recording studio.[1]
Track listing[edit]
- Either Way – 2:16
- Darden Road – 4:20
- Where Losers Do – 3:24
- Hello Lovely – 2:01
- Brother, Sister – 5:49
- Khima – 2:23
- Borderline – 3:42
- Highlight on the Hill – 3:23
- Pleiades – 2:54
- A Place for Me – 5:27
- Return to Darden Road – 3:21
References[edit]
- ^ abTucker, Brian (September 15, 2010). 'Beta Radio duo's sound, writing has evolved for years'. Star News Online. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
Wilmington, North Carolina’s Beta Radio threw their hat into the Americana-Folk ring with their debut album Seven Sisters. Ben Mabry and Brent Holloman (the duo behind Beta Radio) have offered up an album that is instantly familiar and undeniably catchy.Musically reminiscent at times of Bon Iver’s atmosphere heavy For Emma, Forever Ago or the Grateful Dead’s “Mountains of the Moon” from their 1969 release Aoxomoxoa, the sonic landscape of Seven Sisters is sparse but far from empty.
On tracks like “Khima,” “Borderline” and “Brother, Sister,” the slow scrawl of the banjo melody floats through the song and surrounds you like birdsong, coming at you predictably but surprisingly from several directions at once. Each of the songs on this album stays with you, forming a soundtrack for and changing the shape of the rest of your day.It’s appropriate that a debut album concern itself with creation and Seven Sisters is no exception. Whether it is the creation of love and a place for that love, as the narrative of the album suggests; or the creation of the universe, as the album’s title and repetition of astronomical and astrological imagery suggests; Beta Radio’s lyrics and music carve out a space in your head and find a way to fit into your own cosmology.