Draw Your Swords Angus and Julia Stone Mp3 Download
About
Down The Way is the second album from Angus and Julia Stone. It's a collection of honest, reflective and emotive songs, recorded in New York, England and a little home studio in Queensland. They worked with different musical collaborators in each place, but as the album's producers Angus and Julia had a clear vision of how they wanted this album to sound. Down The Way has been one of the most loved local albums of the year, both here in Australia and overseas. Congratulations to Angus and Julia Stone: nominees for the 2010 J Award for Australian album of the year.
Dom Alessio on Down The Way:
One of the most loved Australian records of the year, and it's easy to hear why: vulnerable songs built around streams of melody from strings, acoustic guitars and the Stone's harmonies.
Steph Hughes on Down The Way:
These two are famous for their signature Stone calm. And in the midst of a lot of loud popular music, i think this album managed to capture the hearts of an unbelievable amount of listeners (and simulataneously calm them down) with it's strings, whispers, harmonies and acoustic ideas. Tracks like Big Jet Plane won them a lot of new fans and they built on what they started with their debut record A Book Like This.
Q and A
Answered by Julia
You spent around two years in London but the album "Down The Way" was written whilst travelling. Is this your 'on the road' album?
You have a point. Most of the songs remind me of somewhere along the road where we have spent some time or where we have fallen in love. It is hard to separate the songs from this album from our time being on the road as every aspect of it was created away from the place where we grew up. The songs were written, played live and recorded in different places while we have been touring. The songs looking back are a combination of the great joy that comes with new places and people and adventures and then also memories of the way things used to be. I don't think the album is about wanting to go back to those times before, perhaps a little bit about what it feels like to us to be traveling and changing.
You recorded the album in a number of diverse locations including a water tank in Coolangatta, a sawmill in Cornwall, as well as London and New York . Was it a conscious decision to record particular tracks in specific places?
Not really. It was kind of just the way it happened. We love recording the new songs we record as we write them. It is hard for us to wait for a big chunk of time to then record an album. I think for a number of reasons... because back then, we didn't really have big periods of time away from playing live shows, and also at that time, Angus and I never talked about 'making a record'. It was always treated as a fun way to spend time and if something good came of it then we might one day turn it into a record. So 'down the way' in some ways was the most unconscious album, in the sense that it didn't have a specific idea behind it. There was no plan to make a record all over the world and compile it at the end. It only really became an album around the time of mixing. We had around 25 songs recorded all over the place on different hard drives and kieran, who was mixing the record was freaking out a bit saying... "okay so which songs are going on this thing."
Do you have a favourite song on the album?
My favourite song is yellow brick road. I love the sound of the electric guitar at the end. I love the feel of the rhythm section. It is so chilled out and i love the lyrics Angus wrote. It takes me to colourful places. It was recorded down in Cornwall and it is a funny thing, that the song was recorded in the cool light of winter and it makes me feel like the hot glow of summer taking a drive up the east coast to go camping.
You self produced the album. What was that experience like?
It was mostly free flowing. We worked with a few really great rhythm sections, such wonderful engineers, and some incredible string players. And they are all people that we love. So because of the way it was recorded in different places with different people each song had a totally different experience to the next. Different elements to consider with the sounds in the studios. The studio where we recorded 'and the boys' and 'hush'... well that was in the hot hot heat of New York summer, in Williamsburg and 'The Devils Tears' 'Yellow Brick Road' and 'Black Crow' and 'For You' was the cold cold winter of the south of England and then all the different people on the record bring their own quality to the songs. I think allowing the different places and people to be their own thing was important cause we couldn't control things to sound or be the same from one place to the next. There were way too many variables. Some recordings are months apart, so time, people, space... they kept changing. Each recording session was treated as something totally separate from the last one. I am amazed in a way when it came to mixing that they all could flow on the same record. I have a fond memory of recording 'Santa Monica Dream'. We recorded late at night in a home studio down in Battery Park. Angus got home early in the morning from a party and I had been playing with these old microphones and guitars all day. It was a friend's place that collected great vintage guitars and microphones and was kind enough to let us play with his little home studio set up. That was a fun time recording. I can hear on the recording the sound of the wind coming through the window.
You've done a version the Grease classic "You Are The One I Want". What inspired you to cover that track?
I think that all the songs from old musicals that we grew up watching are in my head, so they are sort of like default lyrics I go to when I am playing chords without anything in my heart to sing about. One day I was singing this song while we were in the studio taking a break. It was just me and Brad (Albetta-co-producer of 'and the boys') and he suggested we record it, so we did then and there.
You cleaned up this year at the ARIAs. How does it feel to receive such accolades?
It is a funny thing. I am starting to have an experience of the night now. A week after the event and on the other side of the world. So many people who have been with us over the years wrote lovely messages and emails about how they feel about Angus and myself and that was really sweet. There has been so much love going around this week. The actual awards night itself, I think I was so overwhelmed with all the stuff that comes with the event, that I didn't really feel anything. People kept saying, 'you must be so excited' and all I wanted to do was go to bed. I felt really tired and weird. I can laugh about it now, but at the time I thought there was something wrong with me for being so numb about what everyone was telling us is such a big deal. I feel really so happy to stand next to Angus and be making music with him. I feel like every step of this journey has been such a blessing. I love making music and I love that it connects with people. I feel like the fact that people in Australia think that what we do is worthy is a great thing and the awards represent that. They represent all the touring, all the people who go into making it happen, all the people who have gone into being so encouraging with us to make music. While we are without a home in Australia, our friends have the awards at their houses using them for different purposes according to their desire.
Draw Your Swords Angus and Julia Stone Mp3 Download
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