Name: Choir Of The Mind
Brand: Emily Haines and The Soft Skeleton

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CD 9940 L

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-09-15

Signed copies

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Supplier US

WEA /­ ADA

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

634164994020

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

A 9940

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634164994013

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Emily Haines and The Soft Skeleton

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Last Gang Records

Choir of the Mind, the Metric singer’s first release as her Soft Skeleton solo project in a decade. Haines’ vocals are definitely the focal point of Choir of the Mind. She used her voice to create spellbinding orchestrations for an effect that is subtle and ghostly on “Wounded,” lush on “Fatal Gift” and deeply powerful on “Legend of the Wild Horse,” which she calls her “soft anthem.” Haines’ voice is the only audible instrument on “Strangle All Romance,” and she creates mesmerizing layers that drift and swirl through the title track, which includes a spokenword part adapted from a poem by the Indian mystic Sri Aurobindo. Haines recorded Choir of the Mind over several weeks in September and October of 2016, more or less alone in Metric’s Toronto studio with a borrowed 18-foot grand piano built in 1850. Her longtime musical partner/Metric bandmate, James Shaw, helped flesh out the sonics with various instruments and rhythmic elements. (Shaw also mixed the album). Sparklehorse drummer Scott Minor, a member of the Soft Skeleton’s first incarnation, returned to perform on “Legend of the Wild Horse.” Haines says, “The writing and recording process was heightened and intensive, the two became one thing."

Choir Of The Mind

Music US