Rachael Yamagata...Happenstance(2004)[FLAC]

01. Be Be Your Love (4:12)
02. Letter Read (3:44)
03. Worn Me Down (3:42)
04. Paper Doll (5:17)
05. I'll Find A Way (5:14)
06. 1963 (4:04)
07. Under My Skin (4:12)
08. Meet Me By The Water (3:59)
09. Even So (4:18)
10. I Want You (2:57)
11. Reason Why (5:07)
12. Moments With Oliver (1:02)
13. Quiet (9:22)
14. Ode To... (5:47)

There is a combustible quality about newcomer Rachael Yamagata that for a lot of listeners will call to mind Fiona Apple: A first spin of Happenstance can make you itch with the thrill of discovery, but it also leaves behind the impression that its singer is vaguely dangerous; which is exactly what makes these songs so absorbing. "Everybody's talking how I can't be your love," she pouts in a melodically engineered stutter on opener "Be Be Your Love," one of several tracks pairing her with a piano that seems to take the brunt of the punishment for her wrecked relationships. The rest of the disc unravels with similar heat: When she growls in her full-time rasp that "(You've) worn me down/like a road/I did everything you told" on the very infectious indie-rock leaning "Worn Me Down," you believe her. But the less stormy numbers work as well, with "1963" coming off as flower-power pop grounded by a voice that knows better and "I Want You" wending its way through a fat, heartsick wallow to emerge someplace burnt in honesty. A late minute-long instrumental feels more tasteful than pretentious, adding to a monster of a debut already fueling hopes that happenstance--the term, not the album--will play a miniscule part in Yamagata's eventual output.

Credits:

Engineer, Mixed By: Jeff Juliano
Mastered By: Ted Jensen
Mixed By: John Alagia
Producer: John Alagia (1 to 3, 5 to 14)
Vocals, Piano, Electric Piano, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Tambourine, Songwriter: Rachael Yamagata

Catalog number written as 82876-50566-2RE1.
Track 14 is unlisted and plays after 3:20 of silence following track 13.

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