> steven wesley guiles – “we will all be lifted” album review

Understated, listenable and uplifting…a real gem.

Steven Wesley Guiles’ new album We will All Be Lifted is a real gem and may one of the best album’s released this year that most people will not hear

Musically  understated, the album is in the same neighborhood as artists such as  Bon Iver, Denison Witmer and early Pedro the Lion. There is an uplifting nature to theses songs that is often missing from albums in the genre.

In a listenable album full of great songs, I gravitate toward a three song cycle.  The epic  Thankful is  sandwiched by two haunting and beautiful songs; Something Fresh and New and Except Perhaps the Human Heart

Thankful

You can find the album at iTunes,  and CDBaby,

Forged in the indie rock of the 90s, Steven Wesley Guiles has toured the country with his band Pushstart Wagon since 1993 and has been a solo performer all of those years as well.

His music is a mix of acoustic guitars and heartfelt sentiment. He’s been compared to Bon Iver, Elliot Smith, and he sounds nothing like the lead singer from Metallica. Steven grew up listening to Simon and Garfunkel and hopes to eventually cover the Bridge Over Troubled Water album in its entirety.

We Will All Be Lifted, his first solo album with California based label New Cool Now, is an uplifting tearjerker with beautiful moments like opening track May He Keep You As He Goes and the heartfelt piano-driven love song slash sure hit single, Keep Me Coming Back To You. And when he goes from quiet to epic in Thankful, you are left wishing the song would continue.

Luckily for the fans, the music will continue in another complete EP which is already mixed and mastered and slated for a Winter 09 release by New Cool Now. …And The Stars Will Guide Us Home.

He also has a rock band. He likes to soft rock with his wife. When not softrocking or mediumrocking he also runs the New Cool Now Music label. He recently wrote more than 80 songs as part of FAWM.org‘s songwriting challenges. Here’s a bio. Myspace. Reverbnation. Twitter.

Twilight Saga: New Moon Soundtrack Cover Art and Tracklist

It looks like an interesting lineup for the Twilight Saga’s New Moon Soundtrack

01 Death Cab For Cutie – “Meet Me On The Equinox”
02 Band Of Skulls – “Friends”
03 Thom Yorke- “Hearing Damage”
04 Lykke Li – “Possibility”
05 The Killers – “A White Demon Love Song”
06 Anya Marina – “Satellite Heart”
07 Muse – “I Belong To You (New Moon Remix)”
08 Bon Iver and St. Vincent – “Rosyln”
09 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Done All Wrong”
10 Hurricane Bells – Monsters”
11 Sea Wolf – The Violet Hour”
12 Ok Go- Shooting The Moon”
13 Grizzly Bear – Slow Life”
14 Editors – “No Sound But The Wind”
15 “Alexandre Desplat – New Moon (The Meadow)”

Via Stereogum.