Patrick Watson - Adventures in Your Own Backyard - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

One of Montreal's best kept secrets, Patrick Watson is a young piano-playing singer/songwriter who draws influences from a wide range of artists, including Jeff Buckley, Erik Satie, Bjork and early Pink Floyd. He's backed by a strong band that includes Robbie Kuster on drums, Mishka Stein on bass, and Simon Angell on guitar. The band has played with an impressive group of artists, from fellow Canadian stars like Feist, Lhasa, Champion, and the Dears, to international legends like Phillip Glass and James Brown. In age of records as mp3 cookie-cutter compilations, Close to Paradise is actually an album. Make no mistake, there are pop gems that are happy to stand on their own like 'Giver', 'Luscious Life' or 'Drifters', but 'Bright Shiny Lights' is that much more uplifting after you take the trip that is 'Sleeping Beauty'. Records used to do that kind of thing. They still can. You know, if you want them to. Play it loud, with headphones. Secret City. Album Tracks 1. Close to Paradise 2. Daydreamer 3. Slip Into Your Skin 4. Giver 5. Weight of the World 6. Storm 7. Mr. Tom 8. Luscious Life 9. Drifters 10. Man Under the Sea 11. Great Escape 12. Sleeping Beauty 13. Bright Shiny Lights

Digitally re-mastered edition of the 2002 debut album from the Canadian singer/songwriter. Originally self-released in an extremely limited run, it showcases the band harnessing the atmospheric rock sound that they would come to perfect on 2006's breakthrough album, Close to Paradise. This re- of Just Another Ordinary Day follows on the heels of this year's critically acclaimed Wooden Arms, and features some of the band's most accessible work. EMI. 2009. Album Tracks 1. Just Another Ordinary Day 2. Woods 3. Mary 4. Silent City 5. Shame 6. Brigitte's Theme 7. Gealman 8. Fall 9. Sunday

WOODEN ARMS is Patrick Watsons highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning CLOSE TO PARADISE, which vaulted the man and his band to international stardom in 2007. The Montreal band toured non-stop for two years following initial of Close to Paradise in 2006, and in many ways WOODEN ARMS is the story and sound of a band waking up in strange places all around the world. Album Tracks 1. Fireweed 2. Tracy's Waters 3. Beijing 4. Wooden Arms 5. Hommage 6. Traveling Salesman 7. Big Bird in a Small Cage 8. Down at the Beach 9. Man Like You 10. Where the Wild Things Are 11. Machinery of the Heavens/Outro