Powder Burns

Infobox Album | Name = Powder Burns
Type = Album
Artist = The Twilight Singers


Released = May 16 2006
Recorded = 2005-2006
Genre = Indie rock
Length = 48:48
Label = One Little Indian Records
Producer = Greg Dulli
Mike Napolitano
Mathias Schneeberger
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:j9dsyl76xpbb link]
*Pitchfork (7.9/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/36535/Twilight_Singers_Powder_Burns 5/17/06]
*The Skinny Rating|5|5 [http://www.skinnymag.co.uk/content/view/1068/141/ link]
*Transform Online [http://www.transformonline.com/music/reviews/004824.php 7/26/06]
Last album = "Amber Headlights"
(2005)
This album = "Powder Burns"
(2006)
Next album = "A Stitch in Time (EP)" (2008)

"Powder Burns" is the fourth album by Greg Dulli's The Twilight Singers (not counting Dulli's solo album "Amber Headlights". It was released on May 16, 2006 via One Little Indian Records on CD and double 12" vinyl. During the recordings in 2005, Greg Dulli was aided by Manual Agnelli, who co-wrote "My Time (Has Come)" and "The Conversation." "My Time (Has Come)" was first released in 2005 as "White Widow" on Afterhours' "Ballads for Little Hyenas", which in turn was co-produced by Dulli. Other collaborators on this album are Joseph Arthur, Jeff Klein and Ani di Franco. The same recording sessions yielded the follow-up EP "A Stitch in Time", released in early 2007.

"Powder Burns" was partly recorded with extra power generators in a deserted New Orleans just after the floods caused by Hurricane Katrina.

It was released to positive reviews, and actor/comedian Denis Leary called it "one of the best rock albums I've heard in 10 years," [cite web
url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1198458,00.html
accessdate=2008-04-08
title=Denis Leary’s five favorite songs] also putting the song "Bonnie Brae" in "Rescue Me", his Emmy nominated TV series.

The Twilight Singers made their live television debut on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on January 3, 2007, performing " [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSj3cg87Ylw Forty Dollars] " and " [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caNhjZWfshs Sublime] " (which did not air).

Track listing

CD:

# "Toward the Waves" – 0:49
# "I'm Ready" – 3:04
# "There's Been an Accident" – 5:17
# "Bonnie Brae" – 4:46
# "Forty Dollars" – 3:51
# "Candy Cane Crawl" – 4:27
# "Underneath the Waves" – 4:28
# "My Time (Has Come)" – 4:23
# "Dead to Rights" – 4:25
# "The Conversation" – 3:04
# "Powder Burns" – 5:52
# "I Wish I Was" – 4:20

Double 12" vinyl:

Side 1 ("Once I count the numbers down"):
# "Toward the Waves" – 0:49
# "I'm Ready" – 3:04
# "There's Been an Accident" – 5:17
# "Bonnie Brae" – 4:46

Side 2 ("To the end or there around"):
# "Forty Dollars" – 3:51
# "Candy Cane Crawl" – 4:27
# "Underneath the Waves" – 4:28

Side 3 ("Free, or thus, forever bound"):
# "My Time (Has Come)" – 4:23
# "Dead to Rights" – 4:25
# "The Conversation" – 3:04

Side 4 ("For forever's coming down"):
# "Powder Burns" – 5:52
# "I Wish I Was" – 4:20

ingles

* "There's Been an Accident" (May 15, 2006) (digital download and promo CD only)
* "I'm Ready" (July 10, 2006) (CD & 7" vinyl)
** "I'm Ready" (radio edit) b/w: "I'm Ready" (Lo-Fidelity Allstars Remix)

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