All The Bright Coins Simone Felice

• 1 Year Around The Sun 02:55
• 2 Moonlight Promises 02:40
• 3 The World's Fair 04:30
• 4 Puppet 03:24
• 5 90s 01:45
• 6 No Tomorrows 02:03
• 7 All The Kings Of The Earth 05:39
• 8 Prisoner 02:41
• 9 Radio Silence 03:28
• 10 Bare Trees 04:50
• 11 After The Rain 02:58
• Total Runtime 36:53

Info for All The Bright Coins

Simone Felice has long dedicated his storied life to the arts, and perhaps his brushes with death during childhood as heard in the song “No Tomorrows” have proved an unlikely but powerful source of inspiration. All The Bright Coins is his latest, arguably greatest devotion to song and the power of the words within it. Yet, like all artists worth their salt, he claims not to have quite grasped what he’s been reaching for. There had been no grand plans to write this new album. Simone was happy with his lot and becoming increasingly more successful as a frontline record producer and songwriter (The Lumineers, Bat For Lashes, Jade Bird, Matt Maeson f/ Lana Del Rey, and indeed, The Felice Brothers) but, he muses, sometimes the lure and pull of penning his own material becomes too strong to resist, most closely referenced in the track “Puppet” f/ Four Tet.

“Year Around The Sun”, written on New Year’s morning in 2021, after a year of endless lockdowns and constant fear and confusion, is a recalibration of what’s real and what’s important. With help from friends, music, laughter & time, we’ll find a rebirth.

I began writing All The Bright Coins in 2019,” says Felice. “It had been several years since I had written anything of my own, as I’d felt called to produce records and write with other artists I love. Then one rainy morning I wrote ‘Puppet,’ a mainly autobiographical tune about the dark, empty, and farcical side of being an underground touring troubadour most of my adult life. Part of me felt as though perhaps this should, and would, be the last Simone Felice song I’d ever put out, ‘Puppet stand, Puppet bow,’ a final curtain call. But then a few months later I wrote ‘Prisoner,’ and then‘ Bare Trees.’ The ‘Heat’ (that’s what myself and a few close friends call it: that sweet, painful, ungovernable whisper) was with me once again...

All The Bright Coins is a richly rewarding and inspired sound, that makes a personal connection with the listener. It’s built squarely on a bedrock of emotion, utilizing an acoustic guitar, and occasionally a piano to back the distinctive voice. It’s a record that requires attention, a headphones record.

"It's not terribly hard to imagine what led Simone Felice to part ways with his siblings in the Felice Brothers and strike out on his own as a solo artist. Without Simone, the Felice Brothers have a tendency to embrace a playfulness that falls just short of goofy. Writing for himself, Simone isn't without humor -- he possesses a very genuine joie de vivre. However, his imagination is clearly sparked by life's major dramas, and he approaches his themes with the bold, impassioned tone of a great poet. On 2022's All the Bright Coins, Felice shows no fear of his theatrical side, so much so that four of its 11 tracks are spoken word pieces accompanied by music, which he fills with plenty of exuberant brio, and when he sings, his thoughts are mired in misadventures of the past and a sense of loss that pervades his present. It would be very easy for this sort of material to sound a bit pretentious, and it's a testament to Felice's talent that All the Bright Coins never slips over the border into melodrama. His passion registers as sincere and honest on every track, and his vocals have a nimble stride that draws listeners in and keeps them engaged. His knack for the details of a life lived with less caution than might be advisable serves him well, giving it all a heady gravity that's hard to resist. Felice's talents as a producer and arranger play a significant role in the success of All the Bright Coins; his vocals dominate this album, but the accompaniment, often spare and artfully weaving in and around these stories, is superb, and the execution is impressive. Felice wears his heart on his sleeve on All the Bright Coins, and while that's an easy way for an artist to sound foolish, in this case he's created something brave and exciting in its embrace of the human spirit, and it's often strikingly beautiful."

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