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11 tracks | 42 minutes
Released Dec 2005
on Selina Martin
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:12 Ordinary Love lyrics BUY MP3 05:12 Ordinary Love lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:12 Ordinary Love
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:44 Don't Bring Me Down lyrics BUY MP3 04:44 Don't Bring Me Down lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:44 Don't Bring Me Down
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:26 Edward Can't Win lyrics BUY MP3 05:26 Edward Can't Win lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:26 Edward Can't Win
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:04 20 Miles lyrics BUY MP3 02:04 20 Miles lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:04 20 Miles
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:01 The Lost Man lyrics BUY MP3 03:01 The Lost Man lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:01 The Lost Man
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:49 For Love lyrics BUY MP3 02:49 For Love lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:49 For Love
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:22 11 Ways to Get Into the House lyrics BUY MP3 03:22 11 Ways to Get Into the House lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:22 11 Ways to Get Into the House
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:54 Saskatchewan lyrics BUY MP3 03:54 Saskatchewan lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:54 Saskatchewan
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:55 Talk to Me lyrics BUY MP3 03:55 Talk to Me lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:55 Talk to Me
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:03 Next Big Thing lyrics BUY MP3 04:03 Next Big Thing lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:03 Next Big Thing
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:03 The Train Ride lyrics BUY MP3 04:03 The Train Ride lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:03 The Train Ride
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Bio / Background
It's been six years since Toronto's Selina Martin released Space Woman, a much-loved first record that earned her piles of acclaim and a cult following that included many like-minded artists. A musician's musician, Martin blew in like a breath of fresh air with a voice full of beauty and angst and a wholly unique writing sensibility that tweaks the standard love song with brushes of dark humour and spite.
She's made an amazing comeback with her latest album Life Drawing Without Instruction. It's an astounding collection of diverse, lively folk-rock songs that are tricky to pin down. Martin coos and hollers, kisses and spits, hugs and kicks depending on the song at hand, while an eclectic musical stew brews behind her.
Her new record features Martin and her bandmates Annelise Noronha, Rob Carson, Leo Valvassori and Dave Clark stretching to their multi-instrumentalist limit with the addition of accordion, tuba, glockenspiel, cello, trombone, wine glasses and musical saw.
↓ more ↓Cameos by fans and friends include Martin Tielli and Michael Phillip Wojewoda (Rheostatics), Rob Piltch, St. Dirt Elementary School, Julia Hambleton, Greg Smith (Weakerthans) and members of Wayne Omaha.
Martin's latest effort has resulted in more amazing music from a real artist, someone who flies in the face of convention and still creates great songs.
The Globe and Mail
Life Drawing Without Instruction
**** (highest rating)
Selina Martin has the voice of a thrift-shop angel and the eye of an eagle circling over its prey. She's too decent to lie, and too cruel to look away as you react to what she has to say about your shabby subterfuges, which may also be hers. Her new album is full of sneaky wisdom and good tunes that refuse to know where to draw the line. Her arrangements (made and performed with friends from the Rheostatics end of the indie scene) have a way of billowing into grand or parodic tributes to whatever folly she happens to be discussing. Her band is her Greek chorus, commenting on the action with a leer or a tear. Ideally, these songs would be performed in the seedy, comfortable cabaret whose existence they imply. But that cabaret may not exist, so you'd better just buy the record. - Robert Everett-Green
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