The Letting Go

Infobox Album
Name = The Letting Go
Type = studio
Artist = Bonnie 'Prince' Billy


Released = 19 September 2006
Recorded = Valgeir Sigurðsson
Genre =
Length =
Label = Drag City
Producer = Valgeir Sigurðsson
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0avsa93gr23g link]
*Pitchfork (8.2/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/38569/Bonnie_Prince_Billy_The_Letting_Go link]
Last album = "Sings Greatest Palace Music"
(2004)
This album = "The Letting Go"
(2006)
Next album = "Ask Forgiveness"
(2007)

"The Letting Go" is the name of a 2006 album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. It was recorded in Reykjavík, Iceland and produced by Valgeir Sigurðsson, who is known for his work with the Icelandic artist Björk. Dawn McCarthy of Faun Fables also sings on the album.

The album's name comes from the last lines of the Emily Dickinson poem that starts "After a Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes." [cite web | publisher = Cokemachineglow | date = September 22, 2006 | author=Hepburn, Peter | title = Bonnie Prince Billy: The Letting Go | url=http://www.cokemachineglow.com/reviews/bpb_thelettinggo2006.html | accessdate = 2007-05-10 ]

This is the hour of lead
Remembered if outlived,
As freezing persons recollect the snow--
First chill, then stupor, then the letting go.

Track listing

# "Love Comes to Me" – 4:31
# "Strange Form of Life" – 3:46
# "Wai" – 3:37
# "Cursed Sleep" – 5:35
# "No Bad News" – 4:45
# "Cold & Wet" – 2:21
# "Big Friday" – 2:43
# "Lay & Love" – 3:50
# "The Seedling" – 4:36
# "Then the Letting Go" – 5:19
# "God's Small Song" – 4:05
# "I Called You Back" – 7:53
# "Ebb Tide" – 5:14 (hidden track). Bonus track on some versions, "Untitled" on some versions.

Personnel

*Emmett Kelly – guitar
*Dawn McCarthy – singing
*Paul Oldham – bass
*Valgeir Sigurdsson – recording, mixing
*Jim White – drums

References