Jose Gonzalez – In Our Nature (2007)
New album from Swedish folk king José Gonzales. In Our Nature offers some really nice tunes, although it’s only 33 minutes long. The album was released yesterday at MySpace and is now available as a scene release one week before the retail date.
Names like Elliott Smith, Nick Drake, and Tim Buckley are often used together, not necessarily to describe one exact sonic style of singer, but more as incredibly passionate verbs, to identify the strong emotions evoked when listening to these late legends’ sparse melodies. Swedish-based Argentinian musician José González is likely to hear those classic names a lot in his future. González received critical underground love from his 2003 debut disc Veneer, but garnered more widespread attention as a guest vocalist for downtempo group Zero 7. The singer’s gentle vocals and Spanish-meets-classical guitar style make a quietly compelling match, especially so on his sophomore CD In Our Nature, easily the best work–either as a solo or contributing vocalist–that he has released to date.
The track that may well attract the most new eardrums is his sparse, whisper-soft cover of Massive Attack’s “Teardrop” (a.k.a., the theme song to the TV show House), but many of his own tunes are equally endearing. War and world leaders were clearly on his mind when writing this disc, from opener “How Low”–in which González sings “Invasion after invasion/This means war/Someday you’ll be up to your knees/in the shit you seek”–to the flamenco-affected track, “Killing for Love.” All of these poignant–and at times pointed–lyrics are surrounded in lush, yet sparse melodies that make for music that is truly praise-worthy, bordering on timeless.
González was born in Gothenburg, Sweden to Argentine parents in 1978. In 2003, he released his debut album, Veneer, in Europe. The album has since been released in the UK, on 25 April 2005, and on 6 September 2005 in the United States. His trademark sound is solo classical guitar with soft melody. His work, although mostly original, does include acoustic covers of such hits as “Heartbeats” by his fellow Swedes The Knife, “Love Will Tear Us Apart” by Joy Division, “Born in the U.S.A.” and “The Ghost of Tom Joad” by Bruce Springsteen, “Hand On Your Heart” by Kylie Minogue, “Smalltown Boy” by Bronski Beat and “Teardrop” by Massive Attack. His second album, “In Our Nature”, is going to be released in 35 countries, on 26 September 2007.
Tracklist:
01 How Low 02:40 ÛÝ
02 Down the Line 03:11 ÛÝ
03 Killing for Love 03:03 ÛÝ
04 In Our Nature 02:43 ÛÝ
05 Teardrop 03:33 ÛÝ
06 Abram 01:49 ÛÝ
07 Time to Send Someone Away 02:48 ÛÝ
08 The Nest 02:24 ÛÝ
09 Fold 02:55 ÛÝ
10 Cycling Trivialities 08:09 ÛÝ
ARTiST…. Jose Gonzalez
TiTLE….. In Our Nature
LABEL….. Imperial
GENRE….. Acoustic
RiP.DATE.. Sep-20-2007
STOREDATE. Sep-22-2007
LENGTH… 33:15 min
Release name: Jose_Gonzalez-In_Our_Nature-2007-BUTT
Size: 39 MB
Links: homepage, myspace, wikipedia, torrent soon
Comments(31)
I have had this for ages… since the twelfth and it had even been released earlier than that…
This site is pants for music scene releases.
You wont even link the last.fm page.
-_-
Seems like it’s a nice release.
I check’d the website, looks fun…
Let’s wait for the torrent
J-ames please save your smartass comments and try to think a bit. We inform about new scene releases so it’s not depending on us whether someone else ripped this or that in shitty quality 3 months before…
Jose Gonzales rules. Totally recommend this album!
Music on myspace is great!
How about a torrent?
http://www.newtorrents.info/torrent/26992/Jose_Gonzalez-In_Our_Nature-2007-BUTT.html
muchas gracias
ummm hate tell you guys, but i’m pretty sure this is GAY.
WHO ?
apologies. Still I have a 192 kbs Rip of it.
That is what, average quality…?
Keep up the amazing work on movies. I really do love this site
@12
film is 130min, must be 2cd
[QUOTE] Pretty Sure This Music Is 110% GAY[/QUTOE]
You´re gay, stop being so insecure you stupid moron!
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I really like his music, and hadn’t seen the release before this post.
Don\’t call this spic Swedish.
This taco munching mexican is NOT Swedish!!!
like you can’t tell from its name, or how ugly he is? WTF
I hate for a living. And I was really impressed. Never heard of this guy before and I was hooked after the first song.
E
WHOA! Someone put good music on RLSLOG! I’m in shock!!!
J-ames…Why not post a link to the torrent here?
You have this album for ages. Please make a good rip of it to high quality MP3s and share it with the rest of the world.
How big can the release be? Some 100mb or something close to that. Uploaded and seeded in a matter of hours.
rapidshare link?
@16, @17.
He is born and raised in Sweden and has only been to Argentina 3 times in his life. What are we supposed to call him? Finish?
And Willy, do you know that Argentina and Mexico are two different countries?
WOWW!!! thank you soooo much!!!
this is awesome!
Finally good music!!
mm… Argentinian hottie ;o)
Nice! I’ve seen him performing live several times, and regarding his looks, he’s like a copy of Adam Sandler in real life. Btw, he’s quite skilled with the guitar, as proven by perfect play during live performances… truly amazing actually
#22 : http://rapidshare.com/files/57423852/Jose_Gonzalez-In_Our_Nature-2007-BUTT.rar.html
Newser could also update the news by adding torrent&/rapidshare link(s).
Enjoy.
@21, because it’s been around for ages, I am sure Oink has it anyway, thats where my copy probably came from… and torrents for music is silly anyway…
anyone have the album before this?
yes im lazy
OK, fuck you #23. Swedish is in the blood, like mine, pumping in my heart. Our viking ancestors would kill us if we considered him Swedish, so he is not, he is shit. He should be put in jail or sent back to mexico. He looks like a terrorist to me.
@ Willy:
Oh yes, the great Sweden, country of boredom, red houses and incest products like you, dear nazi Willy. You are worthless piece of crap with no future and you fuckin know it… And don’t forget to blame it on those immigrants chewing your kebab, fuckface.
man, how can this turn into a huge hate fest?pretty sad.
-_-#….
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