Various Artists - L-Word: Season 2 (Original Soundtrack) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The soundtrack to the new Showtime original series about a group of bot hgay and straight women living, working and loving in L.A. Artists include Marianne Faithful, Luciada Williams, Leonard Cohen, Connie Francis, Nick Cave, Ella Fitzgerald, Rufus WinWrite, INdigo Girls, Joan Armatrading, Portishead and more!

In 2019, Drowse's Kyle Bates set out to produce a self-recorded new album. Marked by moving across state lines, long-distance relationships, and deaths in the family, the following years proved to be metamorphic. Now, three years later, he's emerged with Wane Into It, continuing a distinctly Pacific Northwestern tradition of self-recording indie experimentalists (Grouper, The Microphones, Unwound's Leaves Turn Inside You). One of the most impactful moments came during the looming passing of a family member. With death expected, the choice was made to conduct a bizarre Inchliving-wakeInch gathering-with the soon-to-be-deceased in attendance. Shortly after, Bates found himself disturbed, preoccupied with the abstraction of memory. The experience led him to reassess the tool one uses to curate our selective memories the internet. The internet, which creeped into even more aspects of life during the pandemic, serves as our self-made digital link to the past. It's uncaring presence layered over humbling thoughts of death and his own childhood memories of the Oregon Coast as he worked on Wane Into It; life's hyperreal texture sank into the recordings as he felt his body age and wane. Big sounds were captured in bedrooms, hallways, practice spaces, forests, and on highways throughout West Coast-vibraphones chime over black metal guitars, a mellotron drones under degraded samples, violins splinter against granular field recordings. In the process of documenting these aural moments Bates completed an MFA at Mills College, coloring the album with shades of avant-electronic and minimalist composition (Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Maryanne Amacher, Sarah Davachi etc...). To realize this scope Drowse collaborated with Madeline Johnston (Midwife), Alex Kent (Sprain), Lula Asplund, a chamber ensemble and more. Bates's songwriting and production have never been more lucid; sounds

The L Word chronicling the lives of a group of of friends, both gay and straight - living in LA, is Showtime's highest rated original series. This double CD includes new and exclusive songs from the the likes of TraLaLa, Tegan And Sarah, Amy Cool, Sleater-Kinney, Nona Hendryx, Neko Case, Telepopmuzik, Shivaree, D'Angelo.