JB-079 - Weinland: Breaks In The Sun LP

SIDE A
Sunken Eyes
I’m Sure It Helps
Hardley Worth Saving
People Like You
Autumn Blood
Piano Interlude

SIDE B
The Letters II
It’s Already True
I Feel Wasted
The Breaks In The Sun
Piano Hymn

John Adam Weinland Shearer: voice, guitar, stapler, piano strings
Aaron 'Rantz' Pomerantz: dobro, mandolin, lap steel, bells, melodica, percussion
Rory Brown: bass
Ian Cameron Lyles: drums, percussion, guitar
Paul Christensen: piano, keyboards, voice, accordian bellows

Alia Farah: harmonies: 2, 3, 9, 11
Adam Selzer: electric guitar: 1, 2, 5; harmonies: 1, 4, 11; drums: 4
Douglas Jenkins: cello: 5, 6, 11
Kate O’Brien-Clarke: violin: 6, 11
180 audiophile quality vinyl, this pressing is limited to 500 copies and contains a coupon for a complete digital download of the whole album.
The follow up to 2008’s critically acclaimed La Lamentor, Breaks In The Sun is an intimate collection of songs committed to 2” tape amidst sleep deprivation, whiskey consumption, and luck. Navigating broken trust, love, lust, poverty, and addiction a calm sense of knowing foils the emotional complexity in Shearer’s lyrics. The gorgeously subdued vocal harmonies, atmospheric finger picking, dobro, cellos, violins, brushed drums, melodica, mandolin, honeyed pedal steel, piano, and subtle percussive minutiae amounts to a timeless album by a contemporary artist.