Reprieve (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Reprieve
Type = studio
Artist = Ani DiFranco


Released = August 8, 2006
Recorded = 2005–2006
Genre = Indie rock
Folk rock
Length =
Label = Righteous Babe
Producer = Ani DiFranco
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:axfexqwdldae~T1 link]
*Slant Magazine Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/music_review.asp?ID=926 link]
*"Twisted Ear" Rating|4|5 [http://www.twistedear.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=510&Itemid=31 link]
Last album ="Knuckle Down"
(2005)
This album ="Reprieve"
(2006)
Next album ="Canon"
(2007)|

"Reprieve" is the fifteenth studio album by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, released on August 8 2006.

Righteous Babe Records' website notes that only DiFranco's bassist Todd Sickafoose, who had accompanied her on her recent tours, would be performing on the album. The album has a dark, mournful, mellow sound reminiscent of 1999's "To the Teeth" and 2004's "Educated Guess" and features experimental arrangements with synthesizers, electronics and tape manipulation.

As the recording of the album was briefly interrupted due to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the album has a heavily political and vaguely conceptual undercurrent that "paints a haunting portrait of New Orleans as the water retreats and the natives continue to rebuild their lives." [ [http://www.sovo.com/2006/6-9/arts/music/music.cfm http://www.sovo.com/2006/6-9/arts/music/music.cfm] "Sovo.com" Retrieved on 06-06-07 ]

The album cover was inspired by a picture of a real tree in Nagasaki which was partially destroyed by the atomic bomb. While the city around it lay in ruin, this one tree stood, half of it destroyed, the other untouched. DiFranco also references the eucalyptus tree in the title track about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

While the official release date of "Reprieve" was August 8, the album was made available for purchase on the iTunes Music Store between June 24 and June 27 2006, possibly in error, as the album date on the site was listed as 2002.

Track listing

#"Hypnotized" – 4:11
#"Subconscious" – 3:32
#"In the Margins" – 3:13
#"Nicotine" – 4:06
#"Decree" – 3:43
#"78% H₂O" – 3:30
#"Millennium Theater" – 3:14
#"Half-Assed" – 3:30
#"Reprieve" – 2:45
#"A Spade" – 4:24
#"Unrequited" – 4:06
#"Shroud" – 4:48
#"Reprise" – 1:34

Personnel

*Ani DiFranco – acoustic guitar, keyboards/synths, programming, samples
*Todd Sickafoose – double bass, piano, Wurlitzer, pump organ, trumpet

Production

*Ani DiFranco – producer, engineer, artwork, design, mixing
*Mike Napolitano – engineer, mixing
*Todd Sickafoose – engineer
*Brent Lambert – mastering
*Brian Grunert – artwork, design
*Danny Clinch – photography

Charts

Album

References

External links

* [http://www.righteousbabe.com/ani/reprieve/ "Reprieve" at Righteous Babe Records]