℗ 2019 Sub Pop Records
| Released | August 23, 2019 |
| Duration | 30m 53s |
| Record Label | Sub Pop Records |
| Genre | Alternative Rock |
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1.1
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Death Up Close
Shannon Lay |
2:37 | |||
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1.2
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Nowhere
Shannon Lay |
2:54 | |||
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1.3
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November
Shannon Lay |
2:19 | |||
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1.4
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Shuffling Stoned
Shannon Lay |
2:17 | |||
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1.5
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Past Time
Shannon Lay |
1:35 | |||
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1.6
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Wild
Shannon Lay |
3:41 | |||
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1.7
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August
Shannon Lay |
2:48 | |||
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1.8
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Sea Came to Shore
Shannon Lay |
2:04 | |||
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1.9
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Sunday Sundown
Shannon Lay |
2:26 | |||
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1.10
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Something On Your Mind
Shannon Lay |
2:02 | |||
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1.11
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Unconditional
Shannon Lay |
2:43 | |||
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1.12
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The Dream
Shannon Lay |
3:27 |
There is an entire sub-genre of poetry devoted to rivers and their persistent, meditative flow. Emily Dickinson’s “My River Runs to Thee” compares them to the cycle of life, while Alfred Tennyson’s “The Brook” deems them eternal and Kathleen Raine’s “The River” muses on the dream-state they evoke. For transcendent folk-pop artist Shannon Lay, the river is all of the above: It’s the metaphor driving her latest album, the exquisitely uplifting August—which doubles as an aural baptism renewing her purpose for making music. “I always picture music as this river. Everyone’s throwing things into this river, it’s a place you can go to and feed off of that energy,” she says, “and feel nourished by the fact that so many people are feeling what you’re feeling. It’s this beautiful exchange.”
The album’s name, August, refers to the month in 2017 when Lay quit her day job and fully gave herself over to music. This was her liberation as an artist, and the album is devoted to paying that forward to her listeners.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Sub Pop Records Studio Masters
Tracks 1, 3, 4, 6-8, 12 – 48 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
Tracks 1, 3, 4, 6-8, 12 – 48 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.28 -1.10 to -0.10 | -15.68 -18.70 to -11.42 | -13.24 -16.70 to -9.30 | 9 6 to 12 | |
| 1 | Death Up Close | -1.10 | -16.21 | -13.5 | 9 |
| 2 | Nowhere | -0.10 | -12.74 | -9.8 | 7 |
| 3 | November | -0.10 | -16.19 | -14.2 | 10 |
| 4 | Shuffling Stoned | -0.10 | -18.70 | -16.7 | 11 |
| 5 | Past Time | -0.70 | -17.77 | -15.2 | 12 |
| 6 | Wild | -0.10 | -15.08 | -13.0 | 9 |
| 7 | August | -0.10 | -11.42 | -9.3 | 6 |
| 8 | Sea Came to Shore | -0.10 | -16.39 | -13.7 | 10 |
| 9 | Sunday Sundown | -0.60 | -17.34 | -15.0 | 10 |
| 10 | Something On Your Mind | -0.10 | -13.57 | -11.0 | 8 |
| 11 | Unconditional | -0.10 | -16.09 | -13.4 | 10 |
| 12 | The Dream | -0.10 | -16.62 | -14.1 | 11 |