Brownsville Station - Yeah - VINYL LP

As the youngest member of the Esperanza fold, the piano styling's and vocal poise of Allie Peden reflect the talents of a young artist creating the craft of a writer with twice her life experience. The nine tracks of melodious, piano-driven rock that compose her debut long-player highlight the skills she has slowly built over the past few years, since she began writing at the tender age of 15. Now in college and a Nashville transplant, Allie writes music with the assistance of brother Bill Peden (drums) and family friend Erick Evans (trombone, euphonium). Her debut With This Love was recorded at Sputnik Studios in Nashville, TN with the assistance of producer Mike Odmark, and features the contributions of Steven Bevilaqua on electric guitar, Patrick Addison on bass, Aaron Saunders on cello, Mike Odmark on guitar and fellow Esperanzan Jesse Coppenbarger (of Colour Revolt) providing background vocals on 'Coretta'. What began as Allie and a piano several years ago has matured into a full-fledged sound colored with innovative horn parts, jazzy guitar tracks and masterful piano arrangements. She is now a band --- making noise and being heard.

Yeah Yeah Yeah just arrived out of the blue. I just took a chance. I had some ideas for a new album I'd been working on, but we weren't planning on recording until the year after. It all happened very fast. There was a window of opportunity- youth was free, the studio was free, and the band were free- and I thought, let Providence prevail. No one had heard the songs apart from myself and Alan McGee, but we both thought that we had something. You could feel it, even though none of the songs were really finished, and so we decided to roll with it and go and record them. I think with Yeah Yeah Yeah it was more than just trying to capture a vibe- it was about trying to record something majestic, which is how youth describes the record. There are gospels and strings on tracks like Free Love and don't look away, which have kind of turned into these massive anthems. It has P.P. Arnold as a featured vocalist on a couple of tracks- the first, the single poison vine, which has a groove and a blistering chorus. She's also on another song that's a psychedelic funk track the way it's gotta be (oh yeah). Songs like Teardrops or Birds Heading South- we've tried to capture that classic, slightly Wistful theme- whereas the weight of the world just rocks out. There's also a little acoustic track to break it all up called the devil and the deep, which is a favourite of mine. We recorded the album over in Spain at space mountain, Youth's studio, way up in the mountains, just as the almond trees were in blossom- which I took as a good omen for the session.

The Broadcast - Tender Buttons [VINYL LP] date 09/20/2005