My Second Last Album Bahamas

• 1 Sauna 03:58
• 2 Country for the Town 02:42
• 3 The Bridge 03:04
• 4 Ready for a New Thing 02:45
• 5 Only Inspiration 02:57
• 6 Dearborn 02:56
• 7 Shadows 02:12
• 8 Play the Game 03:02
• 9 Feels So Good 03:34
• 10 In Country 04:04
• Total Runtime 31:14

Info zu My Second Last Album

„My Second Last Album“ ist der Nachfolger von „Bootcut“ aus dem Jahr 2023. Während dieses Album eher Country-lastig war, soll dieses Album genreunabhängiger sein. Eine Pressemitteilung verspricht „Soul-Grooves, Country, Indie-Pop und Folk-Rock-Wärme“. Auffällig ist, dass in der Pressemitteilung der Titel von „My Second Last Album“ und seine mögliche Bedeutung für Jurvanens Karriere nicht erwähnt werden.

Afie Jurvanen, alias Bahamas, ließ das Stadtleben hinter sich und zog nach Nova Scotia, wo er mit seinem Schlagzeuger und Freund Joshua Van Tassel in einem Studio sein neues Album aufnahm. „My Second Last Album“ verbindet Soul, Folk, Country-Funk und Pop mit offenen Texten über Familie, Widerstandsfähigkeit und das Finden von Frieden abseits des Rampenlichts. Vom Groove von „Feels So Good“ bis zur verspielten Offenheit der Lead-Single „The Bridge“ ist es eines der persönlichsten und bedeutendsten Werke von Bahamas bis heute.

Bahamas

Afie Jurvanen
isn’t from the Bahamas. He’s a Finnish-Canadian from Barrie–a working class town in rural Ontario. But his chosen epithet is fitting. Since 2009 he’s been making music under the name Bahamas–writing songs about sunsets, love affairs, and making out with crooked smiles. Through simple arrangements, he charts an escape route from the snow belt to the coral reefs. His new album, Bahamas Is Afie, will be released August 19, 2014 on Brushfire Records/Universal.

Bahamas is Afie is a coming of age record. Self-titled and self-produced – It is the next step in the evolution of Jurvanen’s songcraft, guitar mastery, and melodic pop hooks – following his previous full-lengths Pink Strat (2009) and Barchords (2011). Bahamas is Afie remains a sparse, moving, headphone album, complemented by a more developed arrangement of strings, brass, winds, orchestral percussion, and chamber choruses that transport the listener from moving seas to a search for strength, to a place of resolve and comfort.

“This feels like a self-titled record to me. The songs seem to have a definitive quality to them, and they ended up going to all kinds of unexpected musical places. I really thought I was going to make a traditional folk record but as the recording evolved I started having some pretty different ideas. I started playing this game like, ‘what would 80s Van Morrison do if he were producing this?’ or ‘what about John Williams?’ It all came together in a simple, naive and direct way and I was really energized by the process. And I got to play a lot of guitar…I feel like I’ll get another chance to make a folkie record somewhere down the road. For now, this is me.”

Dieses Album enthält kein Booklet