Name: Ease the Work
Brand: Hour

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LPDLR051

Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2024-04-12

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

644110492913

Total Cap

Black LP

Artist

Hour

Genre GB

Folk

Label GB

Dear Life

Dear Life Records is a record label based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Michael Cormier and co-run with Frank Meadows and Jon Samuels. The label's mission is to release a diverse range of music and audio-based projects that delve into the depths of the human experience.

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To record "Ease the Work", Hour traveled via ferry with an entire studio's worth of equipment to an old off-Broadway theater on Peaks Island in Maine, months before the first tourists would show up - The week-long session started with an island-wide power outage that halted recording on the first day, and ended with twelve songs that walk steadily between longing and contentment, sentimentality and subtlety, the lift of harmony and the compulsion of a melody you wish would play forever. Hour's music cuts a broad pathway, and remains hard to classify or compare. Perhaps most at home beside work from Bill Frisell, Eiko Ishibashi, ECM Records, or the Louisville experimental chamber group Rachel's, Ease the Work shows us life on the boundary of composition and improvisation. It reaches for the sweeping gestures and inspired pacing of classic film scores, Frank Sinatra ballads, and Scott Walker's pop orchestra. It also retains the arresting intimacy of the band's early work. Strings swell and harmonize in counterpoint with electric guitar, clarinet, and piano, while drums, synth pads, and field recordings complete the aural world.

Ease the Work

Music GB

Discover "Ease the Work" by Hour on Dear Life. An eclectic mix of longing and contentment, this vinyl record pushes boundaries between composition and improvisation.