℗ 2023 Hardly Art
Released | March 10, 2023 |
Duration | 37m 19s |
Record Label | Hardly Art |
Genre | Alternative (Rock) |
Manzanita
Shana Cleveland
Available in MQA and 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
1.1
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A Ghost
Shana Cleveland |
2:51 | |||
1.2
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Bloom
Shana Cleveland |
0:11 | |||
1.3
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Faces in the Firelight
Shana Cleveland |
3:36 | |||
1.4
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Mystic Mine
Shana Cleveland |
3:55 | |||
1.5
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Light on the Water
Shana Cleveland |
0:39 | |||
1.6
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Quick Winter Sun
Shana Cleveland |
2:52 | |||
1.7
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Bonanza Freeze
Shana Cleveland |
2:16 | |||
1.8
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Gold Tower
Shana Cleveland |
3:30 | |||
1.9
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Babe
Shana Cleveland |
2:36 | |||
1.10
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Ten Hour Drive Through West Coast Disaster
Shana Cleveland |
1:24 | |||
1.11
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Evil Eye
Shana Cleveland |
3:28 | |||
1.12
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Mayonnaise
Shana Cleveland |
2:57 | |||
1.13
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Sheriff of the Salton Sea
Shana Cleveland |
2:58 | |||
1.14
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Walking Through Morning Dew
Shana Cleveland |
4:06 |
"A perfectly woven tapestry of musical delight. Baroque psychedelia mingles with west coast pop and gothic folk in this dazzling third solo album from the La Luz frontwoman."
- The Guardian
Manzanita is the common name for a kind of small evergreen tree endemic to California which has strong medicinal properties. It’s also the name of the brand new full length by visual artist, writer, songwriter, and musician Shana Cleveland. Subtle, powerful, and unafraid. We can’t actually tell you how much we love this record because you’d never believe us, so we’ll just say that it is her strongest and most personal album to date.
These songs are as strong as the bricks in the Brill building, and seem destined to be covered by others in years to come. Where her previous record, 2019’s Night of the Worm Moon (Hardly Art) functions as a collection of speculative fictions equally inspired by Afro-futurist pioneers Herman “Sun Ra” Blount and Octavia Butler, Manzanita concerns the love that loves to love.
“This is a supernatural love album set in the California wilderness,” Cleveland explains.
The combinations of words and song structure are so strong throughout that one hardly notices Cleveland’s nimble fingerpicking on first listen, or how much is packed into the arrangements. The lyrics are satisfyingly direct, with the buoyantly whimsical descriptions typical of the 1960s New York School of poetry. It’s peppered with the kind of unexpected turns that make the words more modern, and in their spookiness they are more West Coast, as in “Mystic Mine,” with its “Mystic Mine Lane, cars rotting away/ I feel so relieved to be/ Back in the country.”
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Hardly Art Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.22 -5.90 to -0.30 | -15.10 -19.86 to -12.46 | -12.66 -16.80 to -10.90 | 8 5 to 11 | |
1 | A Ghost | -0.30 | -12.46 | -11.1 | 7 |
2 | Bloom | -5.05 | -18.53 | -14.4 | 5 |
3 | Faces in the Firelight | -0.30 | -13.17 | -11.2 | 8 |
4 | Mystic Mine | -0.30 | -14.16 | -12.1 | 9 |
5 | Light on the Water | -5.90 | -19.86 | -16.8 | 7 |
6 | Quick Winter Sun | -0.30 | -13.77 | -11.6 | 8 |
7 | Bonanza Freeze | -1.87 | -18.38 | -15.7 | 11 |
8 | Gold Tower | -0.30 | -14.73 | -12.4 | 8 |
9 | Babe | -0.30 | -14.25 | -11.7 | 8 |
10 | Ten Hour Drive Through West Coast Disaster | -1.28 | -14.07 | -11.6 | 7 |
11 | Evil Eye | -0.30 | -12.86 | -10.9 | 8 |
12 | Mayonnaise | -0.30 | -14.11 | -11.3 | 10 |
13 | Sheriff of the Salton Sea | -0.30 | -16.17 | -13.7 | 11 |
14 | Walking Through Morning Dew | -0.30 | -14.85 | -12.7 | 9 |