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Katie Herzig ‎– Walk Through Walls (2014)

2018-12-31T15:34:28Z

Katie Herzig ‎– Walk Through Walls (2014)


1 	Frequencies 	
2 	Drug 	
3 	Walk Through Walls 	
4 	Summer 	
5 	Say It Out Loud 	
6 	Your Side 	
7 	Lines 	
8 	Thick As Thieves 	
9 	Humans Too 	
10 	Water Fear 	
11 	Forgiveness 	
12 	Proud

Ruby Amanfu - Vocals (Background)
Butterfly Boucher - Bass, Cowbell, Guitar (Electric), Keyboards, Vocals (Background)
Eleonore Denig - Violin 
Jordan Brooke Hamlin - Accordion, Clarinet, French Horn, Guitar (Electric)
Katie Herzig - Composer, Instrumentation, Primary Artist, Programming, Vocals
Claire Indie - Cello
Will Wayles - Drums

Katie Herzig skipped past her folk singer/songwriter beginnings with 2011's The Waking Sleep, moving into a dream pop arena full of synths, loops, and beats, and with Walk Through Walls, she expands things even more in the atmospheric, confessional dream pop direction, coming up with a multi-layered sound that is as carefully textured, challenging, and complex as it is accessible in a contemporary world, which might explain why so many of her tracks end up in commercials and on the soundtracks to films and television shows. ---Steve Leggett, AllMusic Review

Katie has done it again! I expected a return to more acoustic music after the colorful sonic adventures of The Waking Sleep, but instead she’s upped the ante with her most electronic – and perhaps her most compellingly human – album to date.

Let’s just get something straight before I start to dig into the actual contents of the new Katie Herzig album. It’s right there staring you in the face, and it’ll become the elephant in the room if I don’t at least mention it, so… I HATE THE COVER PHOTO. There, I said it. I’m sorry, Katie. I love the music on this album, and that’s far more important than whatever imagery you may choose to market your music or to say “This is my quirky personality!” in big bold lettering when some unsuspecting listener stumbles across it on the Internet. The cover of Apple Tree was cartoonish and slightly whimsical. That fit the album perfectly. The Waking Sleep was more pensive, like an innocent, disheveled moment when you had just woken up from a nap or something, and that was a great fit, too. But this is just… yikes. What is the deal with the polka dot dress? Are you trying to fade into the blank white background as if you were emerging through a wall or something? Because I see those black spots all over and the first thing that honestly comes to mind is “Cruella De Vil”. And then you just sort of have this blank stare, maybe gritting your teeth slightly, like “Ugh, let’s get this photoshoot over with, I’ve got a record to finish!” I’m generally not one to play fashion police, but this just isn’t flattering or representative of the fantastic album within. OK, that’s out of my system now. On to the music!

The world of indie pop has brought me a few nice surprises in 2014, but none have consumed me quite so much as the 12 songs on Walk Through Walls. When I first became acquainted with Katie’s music in 2008, I though of it as whimsical, poppy folk music, the kind that went down incredibly well in a coffeehouse setting with just enough respectful silence between songs for the artist’s self-deprecating jabs at her own love life (or lack thereof) to be warmly appreciated by the crowd. The Waking Sleep found her expanding her pallete a bit, bringing in more percussion (she played the drums in her former band Newcomers Home, after all) and a bit more programming, and bolder pop hooks in general, couched comfortably in between some of the curiously pretty quieter moments on the album. It was a weird balance, the sort of thing I figured might be a one-off experiment before she returned to “her roots”, whatever that’s supposed to mean anyway, on her next album. I loved that record for all of its quirks – it really brightened late 2011 and early 2012 for me (which were otherwise very dark times), and it even proved to be influential on my very favorite songwriter of all time, Vienna Teng, who borrowed producer Cason Cooley to make her own colorful electro-pop statement on last year’s Aims. See, Katie? You’re moving up in the world!

Cooley is back in the saddle with Herzig on Walk Through Walls, and this time they’ve managed to accomplish the seeming paradox of making her sound even more electronic and yet less upbeat. Don’t get me wrong – this is still a fantastic pop record, one that brims over with the childlike joy of discovering what happens when you merge the skeletal structures of a few programmed beats and synths with more spontaneous bits of playing around on live instruments in the studio. There are definitely a few singles in the waiting that could go toe-to-toe with “Free My Mind” or “Hologram” for a slot on that list of songs that you just can’t get out of your head. But this album’s real heart lies in its softer, more mid-tempo moments, when what could have been mere cold machinery instead gives way to heartwarming empathy and occasionally a bit of soul-straining sorrow. This is Katie’s most human record so far, which isn’t to say that her songs lacked depth before, but here you can really feel that she’s lost someone she loved and that she’s learned more about what makes the human heart tick in the process. I don’t hear anything resembling an acoustic guitar in most of these songs, but thanks to Katie’s gift for crafting compelling melodies and thoughtfully-phrased rhymes, I don’t miss her “old sound” at all. (Which isn’t to say that I wouldn’t be massively intrigued to hear this one get the “acoustic trio” treatment… but that’s a thought for another day.) ---murlough23.wordpress.com

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Katie Herzig – The Waking Sleep (2011)

2011-10-04T08:19:20Z

Katie Herzig – The Waking Sleep (2011)


01 – Free My Mind				play
02 – Make A Noise
03 – Way To The Future
04 – Best Day Of Your Life
05 – Wasting Time
06 – Midnight Serenade			play
07 – Oh My Darlin’
08 – Closest I Get
09 – The Waking Sleep
10 – Lost And Found
11 – Daisies And Pews

Katheryne Lee Herzig born in California, United States, March 6, 1980.

In 2004, Herzig released her first solo album, Watch Them Fall. The title track was featured on the WB television show Smallville. Another song, "Say Goodbye" appeared in the 2007 film, X's & O's. In 2006, she released a second solo album, Weightless which she recorded using Pro Tools and instruments that she borrowed from friends. She co-wrote one track from the album with Kim Richey, "Jack and Jill". It was also featured on an episode of One Tree Hill and Pretty Little Liars. Two tracks from the album "Fool's Gold" and "Sweeter than This" were featured on Grey's Anatomy. Her song "Where the Road Meets the Sun" was featured on the Season 5 finale of Grey's Anatomy. The song "Wish You Well" was featured in the sixth season of Grey's Anatomy and in the first season of Pretty Little Liars. "Lost & Found" was featured in the third episode of the eighth season of "Grey's Anatomy."

After the release of Weightless, Herzig moved to Nashville, Tennessee to further pursue her solo career. She then toured with the Fray and as a member of the Paste Songwriters Tour.

On May 18, 2008 Herzig released a new album Apple Tree, which is so named because the title is mentioned in three different songs on the album. She has since appeared on the KCRW radio program, Morning Becomes Eclectic and joined American Songwriter magazine's Ten Out of Tenn tour. On September 18, the song "I Hurt Too" from Apple Tree was featured on the police procedural television drama Bones. "How the West Was Won", also from Apple Tree, plays over the closing credits of HBO's Bored to Death episode, "The Case of the Grievous Clerical Error!". She also appeared in the 2008 independent documentary film, A Nashville State of Mind. 'Forevermore' is featured on Australian TV in supermarket store Target's 2010 ad campaign. Herzig's 2009 single "Hey Na Na" was used on the pilot episode of the Lifetime series: Drop Dead Diva. It was also used in "Going the Distance" starring Drew Barrymore and Justin Long. ---wikipedia

Katie Herzig has steadily become a fixture in Nashville’s up-and-coming indie music scene. She’s spent the last few years touring the US, sharing the stage with artists like Brandi Carlile and The Fray and been a part of the Ten Out of Tenn and Hotel Cafe tours. In 2008, after her song “Heaven’s My Home” was nominated for a Grammy, Katie was featured in Billboard Magazine’s “Now Hear This” as well as one of PASTE Magazine’s 25 “Best of What’s Next” Artists. Her songs have been featured on NPR, KCRW’s Morning becomes Eclectic and several tv/films including Grey’s Anatomy, Pretty Little Liars, Going the Distance, and most recently a Target commercial in the US. She continues to out-do herself with each new musical endeavor. Her last record “Apple Tree” was a spellbinding, uniquely immersive listening experience that manages to be at once playful and impassioned—challenging and comfortable—-intimate and epic…which is exactly what listeners have come to expect of Katie Herzig. ---last.fm

Katie Herzig to piosenkarka z Nashville, Tennessee (USA). Urodziła się w muzykalnej rodzinie w Kalifornii. Kiedy miała rok jej rodzina przeniosła się Fort Collins, gdzie Katie uczęszczała do Rocky Mountain High School. Kiedy była w ostatniej klasie liceum, dostała od ojca gitarę. W 2000 roku ukończyła University of Colorado at Boulder (na kierunku dziennikarstwo). Jeszcze na studiach założyła zespół Newcomers Home (razem z Timem i Laurie Thornton oraz Andrew Jed’em). Katie miała jednak problemy z występami scenicznymi i przeważnie śpiewała w chórkach oraz grała na perkusji. Dopiero po jakimś czasie zaczęła śpiewać i grać na gitarze. Zespół rozpadł się w 2006 roku.

W 2004 roku wydala pierwszą płytę Watch Them Fall. Tytułowa piosenka z jej pierwszego albumu została wykorzystana w serialu telewizyjnym Smallville. Na ścieżce dźwiękowej do filmu X’s & O’s pojawia się piosenka „Say Goodbye”. W 2006 roku wydała drugą płytę, Weightless (którą nagrała dzięki pomocy przyjaciół, którzy pożyczyli jej potrzebny sprzęt i instrumenty). Kolejne dwie piosenki Katie („Fool’s Gold” i „Sweeter than This”) zostały wykorzystane w serialu Grey’s Anatomy. 18 maja 2008 roku światło dzienne ujrzał jej trzeci album - Apple Tree. Piosenka „I Hurt Too” została wykorzystana w jednym z odcinków serialu Bones. Piosenka „Heaven’s My Home” (którą napisała razem z Ruby Amanfu, a którą wykonywali The Duhks) została nominowana do nagrody Grammy w 2007 ( Best Country Performance). ---last.fm

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