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All the Way Home by radiogram
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fave it Folk Pop | Americana
10 tracks | 57 minutes
Released Dec 2003
on endearing records
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Ambient Alt. Country
Editorial review
Americana is basically dead and buried in the country that lent the alt-country genre its name, with the handful of hangers-on more or less recycling the rustic minimalism already perfected by Will Oldham and contributing little to the movement's forward motion. Up in Canada it's a different story -- Vancouver's Radiogram not only recalls Americana's halcyon days, but for All the Way Home draws on disparate influences spanning from chamber pop to slowcore to post-punk (a cover of New Order's dramatic "Love Vigilantes," no less) to update the formula for a different era. With its pedal steel, strings, and trumpet solos, the record sometimes suggests a grittier Mojave 3, and frontman Ken Beattie's duets with vocalist Shelly Campbell evoke the Walkabouts' Chris Eckman and Carla Torgerson, but Radiogram offers more than the sum of its influences -- Beattie is a phenomenal songwriter, and his spacious, atmospheric arrangements sometimes recall the production work of Daniel Lanois. Lofty comparisons to be certain, but All the Way Home deserves the kudos. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
Radiogram was formed by acclaimed Vancouver singer-songwriter Ken Beattie just before the turn of the century and their debut album, Unbetween, was released on Transsiberian/Scratch in April 2000.
Their sophomore album, All the Way Home, is a rootsy mixture of country, pop, and americana distilled with a healthy dose of ambience, some art-rock, and a dash of chamber music. Combine all this with the world weary folk tales of Ken Beattie, and you have a concoction that is decidedly Radiogram. Music that is equally at home on the back porch or the balcony, a high rise or a homestead.
"Summer Song Summer" from All The Way Home is also track 2 on the Nettwerk Records Compilation The Grass Is Always Bluer, alongside such scene heavyweights as The Jayhawks, Iris Dement, Lucinda Williams and iron and Wine.