Magic Marker
2007
Daughters And Suns
About This Album
The Owls' first full-length album is a giant step beyond their debut EP, Our Hopes and Dreams. While it was a pleasant, charming record, Daughters and Suns is a much more fully realized and successful artistic statement. The arrangements are lusher, the sound is crisp and polished without being glossy, the songs more involving, and the performances pack more of an emotional punch. It takes the Owls out of the world of workaday indie pop and into a more sophisticated world of bands like Camera Obscura, Young and Sexy, and Belle & Sebastian who add a large helping of drama and soul to their sound. Also helping the album reach near-greatness is the fact that the Owls are a rare band gifted with three very talented songwriters who are also three wonderful singers, each perfectly suited for the kind of melancholy, intimate setting the songs create. When they blend together in different formations, it can raise goose bumps and warm hearts. Allison LaBonne's more dramatic vocals and wordier songs are quite captivating, but also quite moody. Her mid-album two-fer of the "Day in the Life"-quoting "The Lucky Ones" and "Apocalypse" is like dark clouds that blot out the sun (in a good way, giving the record some real depth), and her startlingly lovely "The Way On" starts the album with the kind of song that'll you want to build a playlist around.
Track List

Disc 1 (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10)

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Disc 2

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